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 consists of three floors; a basement in cast in-situ concrete, the main floor on the ground and a mezzanine for technical rooms and storage. The structure is founded with foundations directly on ground. The building has approximately 350 columns made of whole tree trunks, placed both indoors and outdoors. The roof is made of massive wood, supported by glulam timber beams, which in turn are supported by wooden columns in the façade. Bracing walls are made of massive timber.