Europan 8

First prize for Clarières, housing and sports complex for Kristiansand, Norway.

A desire to return to nature, incarnated by the archetypical declination of the forest has been recurrent within western culture since classical times; a simpler life, in close contact with nature, as a means of covering a more intimate relation with the essence of being has recurringly surfaced in a vast array of cultural, political, social and aesthetic practices.

Europan 8