Some hotels are more works of art than places to stay, and Juvet Landscape Hotel is something beyond even that. Its inspiring design and stunning location create a magical immersion in nature far from the stresses of modern life. Time to truly switch off.

Juvet Landscape Hotel is located at Valldal, near the town of Åndalsnes in north-western Norway. Passing tourists are attracted by a spectacular waterfall in a deep gorge near the road, Gudbrandsjuvet. The idea emerged as an opportunity to exploit breathtaking scenery with minimal intervention, allowing locations which would otherwise be prohibited for reasons of conservation.

Instead of the conventional hotel, with guest rooms stacked together in one large building, Juvet Landscape Hotel distributes the rooms throughout the terrain as small individual houses. Every house has one or two walls that are entirely built in glass, thus the experienced space in each room is maximized. Through careful orientation every room gets its own exclusive view of a beautiful and unique piece of the landscape, always changing with the season, the weather, and the time of day. No room looks out at another so the rooms are experienced as private even though curtains are not used.

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“We wanted to create rooms that does not have the conventional borders (the walls), but which has an experienced space that is as large as the landscape, may be three to four miles wide in this case. To create this we worked a lot with the windows so that as much as possible of the “bordering” or “enclosing” effect that a window and its framing usually gives were eliminated as small as possible. This is intended to give an effect of being in a large and grand landscape (not only looking at it), absolutely private, but also protected and warm.”