These project comments on the continuous change of the norwegian landscape, always modifyed, altered and improved by cultural ambitions to improve local conditions and chances of survival. The current change from societies based on agriculture and fisheries, providing food, towards the service minded global hosts, providing adventure, constitutes the contemporary context at an increasing number of coastal communities. For a period of time, the two paradigm will probably both be quite real and coexist in the many soon-to-be-abandoned communities. The ambitions of projects interacting with this transformation should be to design in a way that connects these two images, not necessarily as conflicting ones, but as a continuous expression of “the cultivating Man” through program, form and tactility.
