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Trollstigen Service Centre and Café, Rauma

The Trollstigen plateau is the launch point for the Trollstigen mountain road, which zigzags down a breathtaking 800 metre drop through 11 hairpin bends.

Architect: Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter AS. Landscape architects: Multiconsult 13.3
Published 15 Jun, 2010
 
Trollstigen service centre and café.

Trollstigen service centre and café.

Trollstigen service centre and café.

Trollstigen service centre and café. From the seating on the main roof slope.

Trollstigen Service Centre and Café. Main entrance.

Trollstigen service centre and café. Interior with fire place.

Trollstigen service centre and café.

Trollstigen service centre and café. The low structures along the wall contain café seating. They are integrated into the flood wall system protecting the road.

Trollstigen service centre and café. The flood barrier protecting the road.

Walkway towards the brink and the lookout points.

Walkway to the upper lookout.

Upper lookout seen from below.
Photo: Iver Otto Gjelstenli

Stair from upper to lower lookout.

Stair to lower lookout during construction.

Trollstigen. Lower lookout.

Trollstigen. Lower lookout.

Trollstigen service centre and café.
Photo: Jiri Havran/Statens vegvesen

Site plan.

Site plan, upper lookout.

Site plan, lower lookout.

Section, lower lookout.

Trollstigen service centre and café. Plan.

Trollstigen service centre and café. Elevations.

Completion: 2012

Address:
Trollstigvegen, Åndalsnes, Rauma

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Photo:
Reiulf Ramstad Arkitekter AS/diephotodesigner.de

Trollstigen is one of the most spectacular stretches of road in Norway, zigzagging up through the enormous Isterdalen Valley. The stopping point at the top receives about half a million visitors a year.

This project was based on a competition in 2004, and aims to integrate landscape and architecture in one unified complex. The built structures cover a large area, and are subjected to dramatic extremes of weather and climate, from snow to flooding.

All functions are located in one concentrated structure, with a clear entrance and parking facilities. From here, all buildings and other elements work with each other: walkways and bridges, picnic areas, viewing platforms, flood barriers, the little hydroelectric power generator and the new visitors’ centre.