Buildings roll through the city on railway tracks in this masterplan by Swedish architects Jagnefalt Milton for Åndalsnes in Norway.

Called A Rolling Masterplan, the design was created for a competition to design a masterplan for the city.

Jagnefalt Milton’s scheme would use both existing and new railway tracks to move buildings around according to the seasons or events.

Their proposal included a mobile hotel, swimming pool and concert hall.

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A ROLLING MASTER PLAN

The Swedish architecture office Jagnefalt Milton has been awarded in the Norwegian master plan competition for the city of Åndalsnes. Their proposal was a to have buildings rolling through the city on rails. On Friday the jury went public with the awarded master plans for the city of Åndalsnes.

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The jury awarded the Swedish office for a proposal where existing and new rail roads would provide the base for new building that could be rolled back and forth depending on seasons and situations. Amongst other they propose a rolling hotel, a rolling public bath and a rolling concert hall.

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“We are really happy that the jury took our proposal serious, its not only a good proposal which we are very proud of, it´s also fully doable,” says Carl Jägnefält one of the two founders of Jägnefält Milton.

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The jury was impressed by the swedes proposals that did not propose new city blocks, public squares, boardwalks etcetera, but instead focused entirely on the existing rail road network and created something unexpected from it. They were also moved by the presentation material which they thought had a surreal mood with a magic and Tarkovsky-esk atmosphere that contrasted well with the sober and technical plans and axonometric drawings.

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Jagnefält Milton is an architecture office in Stockholm, Sweden. Their last achievement was a first price in the architecture competition to build a culture centre in the city of Galway on Ireland. The office was founded a year ago by Konrad Milton and Carl Jägnefält.