Viken Skog Headquarters

Viken Skog is Norway’s largest association of forest owners. The association covers a long tradition of forestry, which inspired building with wood and the connection with nature as the basis for the design of the building. The complex is based on the traditional Norwegian building technique 'Stav and Laft', transformed to modern technology and expression. It consists of two overlapping main volumes, creating a triangle. The volumes, mainly surrounded by heather and high pine trees, encompass a central core in which an organic shape is fitted. This cone is built as a constructive element through all the floors and consists of laminated wood pillars covered with wood chips. Many types of Norwegian wood have been combined in different ways in the building both inside and outside, for example aspen, birch, oak, maple, ash, spruce and pine. Viken Skog Headquarters is Norway’s first multi-storey office building made of timber.