Moskenes
The project is a service building located at the ferry terminal in Moskenes, in the Lofoten archipelago. It accommodates a heated waiting room and universally accessible public restrooms, designed to operate year-round in a remote and weather-exposed coastal setting.
In winter, the Arctic light produces a distinctive visual atmosphere in Lofoten. The landscape is immersed in a continuously shifting palette of blues — from pale azure to deep royal blue — subtly modulated by the low movement of the sun beneath the horizon.
This seasonal phenomenon is translated into the building’s form and materiality. The structure is anchored by two cast-in-place gable walls of pigmented cobalt blue concrete, infused with locally sourced white marble aggregate to produce a textured, mineral surface. These gables support a wide, cantilevered roof clad in perforated blue fiber cement panels. The perforations diffuse integrated lighting, allowing the roof to function as a luminous canopy, softly illuminating both the interior and the sheltered exterior areas.
The building was commissioned by the Norwegian Public Roads Administration (Statens vegvesen) as part of the National Tourist Routes program — a nationwide initiative that integrates architecture, infrastructure, and landscape to enrich the travel experience through Norway’s scenic regions.
