Sametings building (Norway)

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The Sameting building with the plenary hall in the foreground

The Sametings ( Norwegian : Sametingsbygningen ) building in Norway is in the northern Norwegian municipality of Karasjok . It is the seat of the Norwegian Sami parliament , the Sametings . In addition to the plenary hall, the building also houses the Parliament administration and a Sami library.

history

In 1995 an architectural competition was called for a new building for the Norwegian Sami Parliament. The initiator was the Norwegian government, the responsibility lay with the state building authority Statsbygg . It was stipulated that the new building should be based on traditional Sami architecture. The contract was awarded in March 1996 to a proposal by the two architects Stein Halvorsen and Christian Sundby , which had the motto “69.3˚ NORD”.

Construction began in August 1998, and Kirsti Kolle Grøndahl , then President of the Storting, laid the foundation stone in June 1999 . On November 2, 2000, the building was officially opened by King Harald V. On November 20, 2015, a 1,520 square meter extension was opened to the building, which is connected to the existing area with a bridge. New offices and meeting rooms are located there. Stein Halvorsen's architectural office also planned this new part.

architecture

The Sametingsbygning is shaped like a semicircle and has two floors. At the end of the semicircle is the plenary chamber of the parliament. It is somewhat separated from the rest of the building structure and housed in a conical area, which is intended to be reminiscent of the traditional habitation of the seeds, the feces . The outer cladding is made of larch wood . Over time, this wood should turn gray and look more like the wooden houses in the region. Inside the building there is a collection of works of art by Norwegian and Sami artists.

The building has a gross floor area of 5300 square meters. It stands on a hill near Karasjok.

Library

Library of Saming

The library in the building, formerly called Samisk spesialbibliotek ( German : Sami Special Library ), contained over 45,000 books, magazines, newspapers and other publications in the Sami language or on Sami topics in 2018 . A copy of every book published in Norway that is in whole or in substantial part in a Sami language must be sent to the facility. It offers the largest range of Sami content in all of Norway. The library is the successor institution to the state-funded Sami library in Karasjok , which emerged in 1983 from the public library in Karasjok .

Awards

  • 2001: Norwegian Government Architecture Prize for Traditional Architecture
  • 2002: North Norwegian Architecture Prize
  • 2003: Fiabci Norway property award in the "public building" category

Web links

Commons : Sametingsbygningen  - collection of images, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Architecture guide: Sametinget. University of Tromsø, accessed February 1, 2020 .
  2. ↑ a b c architecture. Sameting, accessed February 1, 2020 (Norwegian).
  3. ↑ a b Sametingsbygningen. Sameting, accessed February 1, 2020 (Norwegian).
  4. ^ Kunsten på Sametinget. Sameting, accessed February 1, 2020 (Norwegian).
  5. ^ Sametinget, Sámediggi. Retrieved February 1, 2020 (Bokmål in Norwegian).
  6. ↑ Aud Gjersdal: Sametingets's library . In: Store norske leksikon . April 5, 2018 ( snl.no [accessed February 1, 2020]).
  7. ↑ Samisk oppvekst: Om tilbud til samiske barn og ungdom. In: regjeringen.no. Norwegian Ministry of Children and Family Affairs, October 2003, accessed February 2, 2020 (Norwegian).
  8. ↑ Library. Sameting, accessed February 1, 2020 (Norwegian).
  9. ^ Ann-Mari Gregersen: Samiske bøker søker lesere. Retrieved February 2, 2020 (Bokmål in Norwegian).

Coordinates: 69 ° 28 ′ 15.7 ″  N , 25 ° 29 ′ 47.5 ″  E