RARE COLLECTIV BUILDS HARBOR PAVILION and sauna IN BÅTSFJORD

Located nearly 500 kilometers above the Arctic Circle in Båtsfjord, Norway , Skroget is a coastal sauna and community pavilion conceived by Rare Collectiv, a group of fifteen international architecture students from the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) under the Design in Context course. Commissioned by the local municipality to establish an accessible public harbor hub, the project was designed in two days and constructed in ten days, translating reclaimed materials and site-specific environmental conditions into a functional community infrastructure.

stretching nearly 40 metres along the shoreline, Skroget establishes a new gathering place by the water

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Extending nearly 40 meters along the shoreline, the pavilion’s structural system references the skeletal frame of a ship’s hull.…