The facility was created as part of the National Tourist Routes program, which aims to create the necessary tourist infrastructure on the most picturesque road sections in Norway. Their network is extremely ramified and can lead a traveler to the most remote corners of the country, you just need to add a little comfort.
The best Norwegian architects, mostly young ones, were brought in to create picnic areas, recreation areas, observation decks, public toilets, etc. They approached the task boldly and with great originality, and, as a result, they turned out not only functional and environmentally friendly objects, but also spectacular works of architecture that attracted everyone's attention to the program.
It is obvious that Selvika, like its predecessors, will also be published in architecture magazines from around the world. This rough concrete structure is a long and winding ramp that slopes gently from the highway to the seashore. As conceived by the architect, the unhurried rhythm set by him should help the traveler rebuild from fast movement in the car to contemplation of the landscape.
Along the way, between the walls enclosing the ramp, the necessary elements of parking on the highway are placed: a picnic area with a fireplace, benches, parking for cars and bicycles, toilets. At the same time, Selvika deliberately resembles a megalith or a natural phenomenon (it was not for nothing that Ramstad studied rounded living organisms when designing). Thanks to this, it looks in the "lunar landscape" of the province of Finnmark not as an alien object, but something as eternal as the rocks around.
