HATLEHOL CHURCH

In january we participated, in collaboration with KRADS Architecture, in the open architectural competition for a new church at Hatlehol in the Ålesund region in Norway. 123 proposals were submitted, with participants from several european countries.

Our proposal interprets the site and activates the stony ground to create intimate closed spaces, while the wooden rib structure reinterprets the forest of the church site to create flowing ancillary spaces together with the main church room.

While our proposal focused on interpreting and creating a sense of place with dissolved boundaries and subtle light variations, the winning entry (by danish architects Cornelius + Vöge) focused on creating an expressive space with pin-pointed visual and light effects, an altogether different strategy.