«RAK RYGG» (Straight Back) is Team DNA’s (Det Norske Arkitektkontor) concept, which includes three main parts. Grunnfjellet (The Bedrock), represents the solid and safe - Rundgangen (The Roundabout), which represents the meeting and social interaction, and the Y Park, a landscape that takes care of history through new use and opens up the area for public use and access.

Grunnfjellet - Rundgangen - Y Parken provides a comprehensive solution that is rooted in a long-term and functional strategy. The project is balanced between popular openness and formal security. Together with the desire to have a flexible and robust basis for further development of good jobs, this has been the driving force of our project proposal.

The new Government HQ project is one of the most important national building tasks of our time.The government headquarter is, and will remain, a symbol of the nation, the state power and Norwegian democracy. We designed the Government HQ to become an area that provides social affiliation for all groups of the population.

Taking on this big and important task through this particular partnership made us of course immensely proud.

Typology
Culture, Landscape, Planning, Public

Status
Competition (2017)

Location
Oslo, Norway