Solberg Tower & Rest Area in Sarpsborg
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Solberg Tower & Rest Area in Sarpsborg
Landscape design and Building Development in Norway ? design by Saunders Architecture
10 Nov 2019
Solberg Tower & Rest Area
Design: Saunders Architecture
Location: Sarpsborg, Østfold, Norway
Solberg Tower & Rest Area
Sarpsborg is a green, flat and calm piece of South Norway and a traditional stopover for travellers on the route to and from Sweden. In 2004, the Norwegian Highway Department together with the Regional Government approached Saunders for a new project in the area; uniquely however, without having predetermined the commission?s particular needs.
The project leaders had been following my work and asked me to do something in the area, although they didn?t have a specific idea of what they wanted me to do, Saunders recalls. ? In a way I had to almost come up with the program myself, it was very free and creative.
Focusing on the site and aiming to identify its challenges and advantages in order to define its problems and opportunities, Saunders worked closely with the client, not only to develop the optimum design solution, but also the project?s own brief. We discussed what we needed and the architecture came out of that, he explains.
As Sarpsborg is one of the first tastes of Norway the travellers from Sweden experience, it was important for the client that they would be able to slow down and...
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