program: New Museum and Cultural Center for South Sami heritage
client: Statsbygg; Norwegian Public Construction and Property Management
size: 2000 m2
commission type: 1 of 3 winners, open competition (2009)
status: competition
year: 2009
Saemien Sijte holds a very important position in the education and preservation of the South Sami culture, identity, language, history and community.
The historic settlements of the South Sami culture, with its elementary shapes, its materials and ways of construction, have inspired RRA to this distinctive project. The aim was through translation of this to create one plant, to achieve a varied and articulated continuations of rooms, each with contact to the landscape, the Cultural Center’s outdoor area or inbetween the rooms themselves.
The building’s architectural shape, plan and its material brings the culture and the sites characteristics together as one unit.....more
