Lead. A 100-kilometre arctic corridor of the E10 between Sortland and Harstad, modernised under a Public-Private Partnership contract to handle higher traffic and new safety standards in some of the most challenging mountainous terrain in Norway. The architectural ambition was to treat every place a driver stops along the route — and the moments between — as a single, integrated travel experience.

Site & brief. The road runs through Hålogaland's arctic landscape — fjords, mountains, scattered towns — as a critical transport spine for Northern Norway. The PPP contract bundled construction, design, and long-term maintenance under a consortium-led tender. Inside that, the architectural scope ran beyond pavement and structures: 8 junctures along the route with rest areas, vista points, EV charging, transit hubs, freight checkpoints, and tourist information; 6 new bridges; 7 tunnels.

Idea. Holistic mobility experience powered by integration of nature, simplicity, and design. In a landscape this dramatic, the worst design choice is to compete with the scenery. The corridor instead works as a series of light-touch architectural moments — a vista pavilion, a charging shelter, a transit hub — held together by a modular kit of parts and tuned to an arctic light that inverts every six months. The architecture frames the landscape rather than fighting it.

Resolution. The auxiliary structures are designed as a single family: standalone pavilions or clusters, prefabricated and modular, deployable at every juncture with consistent material logic but adapted to each site's exposure and programme. Off-site construction matters in the arctic — short building seasons, harsh weather, remote logistics — and a kit of parts cuts on-site time and cost while keeping a coherent identity across 100 km of road. Lighting design with LightBureau handles the second axis: visibility, wayfinding, and atmosphere across an arctic year that swings from polar night to midnight sun.