Structure studios Esja Structure and Arkibygg Arkitektar have designed a ring-shaped viewpoint that may sit 650 metres up the slopes of Mount Bjólfur and overlook a fjord within the east of Iceland.
The perspective is designed to provide views throughout the panorama surrounding the city of Seydisfjordur whereas additionally being a particular piece of structure.
“The viewing platform is there to border the view, however ought to be a vacation spot in its personal proper,” mentioned Esja Structure founder Audur Hreidarsdottir.
“The obvious view guests are there to see is down the fjord and to the ocean.”
Named after a Viking ring owned by Bjólfur, who was the primary settler of the fjord, the perspective has a round form to permit guests to see the 360-degree views.
“The view is placing in all instructions: to the steep mountains round, the slim valley, countless waterfalls, and the gorgeous city,” defined Hreidarsdottir.
“The spherical platform guides the guests by a 360-degree expertise, travelling slowly in a circle, taking within the totally different views on the best way,” she continued.
“The continual bench spanning the complete internal circle invitations travellers to sit down down wherever they’re impressed, similar to pausing on a museum bench to absorb a specific piece of artwork.”
Set to have a diameter of 32 metres, the concrete walkway will relaxation on the panorama with a cantilever over the sting of the mountain. It is going to be anchored to the bottom in 4 locations.
An inbuilt bench will span the within of the complete 100-metre construction whereas banisters will probably be produced from native larch and stainless-steel posts.
The construction is about to be in-built 2024.
“The street up there’s solely open in the course of the summer season, and even then the situations can fluctuate, with snow, hail, rain and robust winds,” mentioned Hreidarsdottir.
“Subsequently the development needs to be made in a brief window of time. Happily, there are wonderful contractors within the space which have in-built probably the most intense terrains and weathers. So, we’re constructive and excited to see the development course of by.”
Hreidarsdottir hopes that guests to the construction will probably be “amazed”.
“It may be extremely liberating to face on a mountaintop and see the world from one other perspective,” she mentioned.
“Probably the most spectacular view is on the a part of the ring that cantilevers over the sting, including just a little little bit of theatrics. One of the best half is that you simply can’t see the complete view till you might be all the best way on the mountain edge, so it’s fairly a reward after making the journey to the highest.”
Different viewpoints not too long ago printed on Dezeen embody a treetop walkway that’s accessible to “all nature lovers” in Norway and a shingle-clad viewing tower on mountain peak in Austria.
Mission credit:
Architect: Esja Structure and Arkibygg Arkitektar
Panorama architects: ANNA Landslagsarkitekt & Kjartan Mogensen
Engineer: EXA Nordic
