Lead. A station on Oslo's new Fornebu Line - the first new metro line in three decades - designed to carry 70,000 daily passengers and remain a legible public space at midnight. The competition asked for one underground platform and two above-ground entrances.

Site & brief. Fornebuporten is the gateway to the Fornebu peninsula, a former airport now being rebuilt as a mixed-use district. The brief asked for a distinctive architectural identity for the main entrance, alongside platform circulation, wayfinding, and integration with the surrounding street.

Idea. Treat the station as one continuous piece of architecture, not three separate ones. A draped, undulating, gold-skinned organic surface appears at both surface entrances and continues underground as the platform ceiling. A daylight shaft pierces from plaza to platform along the same form - the station is physically, as well as visually, connected from street to track.

Resolution. The main entrance is a fluid, gold-skinned canopy over a glass entry hall, crowned by a circular information ring - an LED display broadcasting arrivals, departures, and station identity in motion. The secondary entrance picks up the same vocabulary at a quieter scale. Underground, the golden surface flows through the light shaft and across the platform as an organic ceiling, backlit from within and set against cool grey tunnel walls so the platform reads safe at a glance. A single sculptural pillar consolidates elevator, HVAC, and fire-evacuation into the moment where ceiling meets light shaft.