Air, Architecture + Other Climates

[57.0°to 71.0° N : Norway] - 2019/20
John Cook, Ben Pollock + Laura Nica

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The Light Resort

Mount Fløya - Tromsø, Norway

The Light Resort responds to the environmental, medical and social implications of light pollution in Tromsø. The hotel and health enterprise invites users with symptoms of seasonal depression and sleep-related disorders providing treatments to restore their circadian rhythm clock. In Northern Norway and many of its surrounding regions suffer from extreme light variation between seasons. The resort uses a solar system to redistribute the artificial light generated in the town through the winter periods and directs natural daylight during the summer months to be redirected throughout the resort. Tested through a solar furnace and a series of lenses, each consisting of concentric rings of prisms, that disperses light to reflect and refract. Chromotherapy is the featured therapeutic practice which uses the visible spectrum of electromagnetic radiation to cure various diagnoses. Using light in the form of colour to balance and heal both physical and mental energy, allows for a tranquil experience for the user. 671 metres above sea level, the wider site is designed as a dark sky preserve, welcoming visitors from across the globe to experience a real night sky.








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