Former sea baths are re-established with Badeklippen. Up from Gandsfjorden like a small mountain, towards Ryfylkeheiene on the horizon.
At the same time, the cliff has something in common with the tallest silo on the other side of the strait, barely visible in the right edge of the picture.
In the summer, people swim from warm boulders and steep cliffs into the crystal clear waters of the Gandsfjord. This is the experience Badeklippen tries to focus and concentrate on a small temple for swimming.
And in the base is a sauna that the area’s year-round bathers have been waiting for long enough. As it is located, a little out on the fjord, stretched up by the bathing jetty, it is a quiet and intimate room. It can be used, even on long summer evenings.
Envisioned in semi-hollow, sand-cast, large concrete bricks, a direct and aesthetically solid beam- and column-construction in concrete, complimented by wooden elements. The roughness of the concrete relating both to the silos, the vast offshore history in the region and also serves to establish a tie with the mountains, essential for the motif – the cliff.
