Lyngen, Norway
Located in the remote Lyngen Alps, the Aurora Lodge project, designed and developed by Snorre Stinessen for Lyngen Aurora AS, is partly a private retreat and a small lodge, organized within the main structure comprising two units and terraces, a separate suite, and a sauna across the creek.
The Aurora Lodge has been awarded a 2022 International Architecture Award by The Chicago Athenaeum: Museum of Architecture and Design and The European Centre for Architecture Art Design and Urban Studies.
With respect for nature being the key inspiration for this project, the design endeavors to complement the site, with the main building stretching out across the natural plateau.
High ceilings and seamless glass walls invite the sky and landscape into the building.
The concrete floor and terraces are an extension of the natural terrain. A simplistic A-frame design echoes a fundamental shelter; however, here tilted back from the seaside to an angle where the roof is aligned with the surrounding terrain, to provide privacy on one side and panoramic views on the other.
The main unit houses a fully independent communal living space, three bedrooms with private, ensuite bathrooms and two additional bedrooms with a large, shared bath in a lofted space.
The northernmost unit houses the main kitchen and dining room, designed like a “winter garden” observatory to provide fantastic views of both the close terrain at your feet and the long view across the sea to the horizon.
Project: Aurora Lodge
Architects: Snorre Stinessen Arkitektur AS
Lead Architect: Snorre Stinessen
General Contractor: Honkatalot
Client: Lyngen Aurora AS
Photographers: Siggen Stinessen and Bent Rånes
