Treetop Stroll Hamaren Train Park / EFFEKT
Textual content material description provided by the architects. The one-kilometer prolonged and two meters huge plank boardwalk extends on pillars all one of the best ways from the forest flooring, alongside Lake Fyresvatn, up between the treetops, alongside the mountain ridge, and as a lot because the summit of Klokkarhamaren. On the trail’s end, a considerable spherical viewpoint with a diameter of fifty meters offers a spectacular 360-degree view over the pine forest, clear lakes, and rock formations that make up the pure panorama.
The picket boardwalk building is fastidiously designed as a response to the curvature of the mountain, usually following the mountain’s ridges and slopes, and customarily bending out, creating viewpoints and dramatic drops the place friends can actually really feel the wind inside the treetops.
The strolling path, universally designed with a light incline, is acceptable for pedestrians, cyclists, pushchairs, and wheelchairs. It grew out of a heartfelt have to current all people, irrespective of bodily abilities, the sensational feeling of strolling amongst the treetops, in accordance with Monica Sølyst, Enterprise Lead at Faun Naturforvaltning.
The load-bearing building along with the boardwalk and railing are comprised of domestically sourced pinewood. This way the development truly blends in with present pine timber on the mountain, usually giving the seen impression that the boardwalk levitates by the use of the forest.
To fulfill the imaginative and prescient of constructing an experience which may add to the already pretty pure setting and by no means destroy it, the EFFEKT workers met up with native contractor Inge Aamlid. Collectively they invented a simple picket developing system that’s used all via all the tree-top stroll. It makes use of solely small and straight pre-fabbed elements, which will merely be handled with small gear and by hand on-site, to protect nature all through the developing course of. When joined collectively the segments sort an pure kind that bends throughout the timber and alongside the mountain. The developing system made it attainable for Aamlid to assemble the leisure walkway on location, using native timber and native craftsmanship methods, nodding to the logging interval in Fyresdal.
