Stargazing

BACKGROUND

THE COLLABORATION

In the last few years architecture students

from NTNU have built two projects in the

community of Rindal. These projects are part of

an agreement that ensures education, research

and practice for the architecture students and

provides the community of Rindal with additions

to their ‘Kul-Tur-Sti’.

This Kul-Tur-Sti, or Cul-Ture-Path, is an initiative

to create a walking path around the community of

Rindal with all sorts of activities along the route.

The NTNU architecture students already build a

sauna and birdwatching tower, and were asked

in 2014 to start designing a stargazing structure.

Due to financial and planning reasons this design

was spread out over two semesters. Both the

spring semester of 2014 and 2015 students get

the chance to work on a design that might be

chosen for actual build. All students work the

first period on an individual design, of which four

projects are chosen to work on in groups. In the

end one of these in total eight projects is chosen

to build in Rindal.

KULTURSTI

The community of Rindal initiated the

development of this Cul-Ture-Path to create

an attractive and environmentally friendly town

that will attract people of all ages, especially

young people that will settle and bring life to

the community. The design of a walking path

combined with a culture path was introduced

in 2005 by the local associations of Rindal. This

path would contribute to the knowledge of the

community’s nature, culture and history. All

along the path there would be signs to display

the agricultural, industrial and transport

historical significance.

Also, this path would be an improvement for the

children of Rindal, they could get around more

easily and to school via this walking path and

planned new bridge. For the children across

the river Sunna, they will pass new stargazing

construction on their way to school. We therefore

visited the kindergarten of Rindal before starting

our design. A more detailed description of this

visit is explained in the next few pages.

RINDAL

TRONDHEIM

SØR TRØNDELAG

COUNTY

MØRE OG ROMSDAL

COUNTY

Rindal

Location site

Norway

KULTURSTI

SITE

SAUNA

BIRD

WATCHING

TOWER