OUTDOOR FIREPLACE
Skjærmveien Barnehage, Trondheim      

Invited team

Completed 2009                                                                   

Client: Trondheim Municipality

Contractour: Pan Landskap AS                                      

Project Team: Haugen/Zohar

3d consultants: Scenarioarchitecture

Photographers: Grethe Fredriksen & Jason Havneraas

Together with the standard playground facilities we wished to combine an enclosed space for fire, storytelling and playing. 

Given a very limited budget, reusing leftover materials (from a nearby construction site) was a starting point that led the

design to be based on short wooden pieces. Inspired by the Norwegi an turf huts and old log construction, a 5,2x4,5 meters wooden construction was built and mounted on a lighted and brushed concrete base. The structure is made of 80-layered 

circles. The circles have varied radiuses and relative centre

point in relation to each other. Every circle is made out of 28

pieces of naturally impregnated core of pine that are placed with varied spaces to assure chimney effect and natural  light.

Oak separators differentiate vertically between the pine pieces to assure airflow allowing easy drying of the pine pieces.

A double curved sliding door was designed for locking the structure.