Weekend Cabin: Tungestølen Cabin
This spectacular architecture still plays a subordinate role to nature in Norway
Weekend Cabin isn’t necessarily about the weekend, or cabins. It’s about the longing for a sense of place, for shelter set in a landscape—for something that speaks to refuge and distance from the everyday. Nostalgic and wistful, it’s about how people create structure in ways to consider the earth and sky and their place in them. It’s not concerned with ownership or real estate, but what people build to fulfill their dreams of escape. The very time-shortened notion of “weekend” reminds that it’s a temporary respite.
On Christmas Day, 2011, cyclone Dagmar hit the coast of Norway with such fury that winds were recorded at ninety-eight miles per hour before destroying the anemometer. It was estimated to be the third-strongest storm to strike Norway in fifty years, and in addition to sinking a Russian trawler, it obliterated a hiking refuge near the village of Veitastrond. Surrounded on three sides by Jostedalsbreen National Park, the village and the local branch
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