Museum of Forest Finn Culture in Norway

The Museum for Forest Finn Culture in Norway will be a unifying resource centre for documentation and research on the Forest Finns, descendants of Finnish immigrants who settled in areas with coniferous forests in Norway and Sweden. The building will simulate a hybrid between a forest and a house, with a seemingly floating roof held up by tree trunks and the distinction between inside and outside will be blurred by using glass façades.

The building has a total of three levels; A basement in poured concrete, the main floor on the ground and a mezzanine for technical rooms and storage. The structures are founded directly on loose soil. On the ground floor, there will be approx. 350 columns in the form of whole tree trunks - both inside and outside. In the basement, cast-in-place concrete columns are used to support a cast-in-place slab. The post columns in the façades support the glulam beams, which in turn support the rafters. The exterior roof is made of solid wood discs, which are placed on post columns. Above the rafters is a disc of cross-laminated timber, which spans between the rafters and braces the walls in cross-laminated timber.