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New Church Building in Våler

Concept Building in Hedmark county, Norway – design by Conm + Kallesø

29 Jan 2016

New Church Building

Location: Våler, Hedmark county, Norway

Design: Conm + Kallesø

New church building in Våler, Norway

We chose to place the project at the edge between the old excisting cemetery and the adjacent forest. The excisting cemetery has an almost grid-like structure and early in the design phase, we chose to work this grid structure into a central square/ ”piazza” on which you arrive before entering the church.

From this central piazza the visitor will find,besides an erected bell tower as a vertical counterpart to the long horisontal path leading from the existing cemetery to the new building, on his left hand a smaller building containing offices for the priest, staff, the chapel, storage etc. On the right side, the visitor will find the main church room itself, the choir, hallway, parishroom etc.

When seen from outside the structure rises in one continual profile from south to north. The outside of the whole building is clad with thin local pine trunks on all facades.

New Church in Hedmark county – Building Information

Typology: Public
Area: 640 sqm
Conception: 2012
Construction: competition proposal
Architect:
Project team: Martin Kallesø, Ricardo Labarca and Ole Hviid, architects
Structure: Morten Hansen