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Qaammat Fjeld Pavilion

Architect: Konstantin Ikonomidis Arkitekter
Location: Sarfannguit, Greenland
Type: Pavilion
Year: 2022
Photographs: Julien Lanoo

A pavilion designed and built by Architect Konstantin Ikonomidis in cooperation with Qeqqata Kommunia (the Qeqqata Municipality), located on a UNESCO site in Sarfannguit, Greenland.

The following description is courtesy of the architects. Located in Sarfannguit, a cultural landscape in West Greenland and a UNESCO World Heritage site since 2018, the Fjeld pavilion by Konstantin Ikonomidis is designed to celebrate and promote the Inuit intangible cultural heritage and traditional knowledge of the environment. Characterized by the two fjords that meet on Sarfannguit’s eastern tip on the hills, the pavilion’s location has been carefully chosen by the local community, site manager Paninnguaq Fleischer-Lyberth and architect Konstantin Ikonomidis for its impressive view over the Sarfannguit municipality.

Set on the planned trail between Sarfannguit and Nipisat, this site-specific installation will serve as a landmark and a gathering point and dissemination site in Sarfannguit, where the World Heritage site’s beautiful surroundings can be experienced by locals and visitors to the village. The Fjeld pavilion is designed as a poetic and aesthetic object, but most importantly as a symbolic gesture acknowledging the natural site and rich history, the distinctiveness of the Greenlandic culture, and the spiritual sensibilities rooted in Sarfannguit.

The opening ceremony for the Qaammat pavilion took place on 3 October 2021.

Project Details

• Location: Sarfannguit, Greenland
• Project start: 2019
• Project completion: 2021
• Client:
  • Qeqqata municipality, Greenland
  • UNESCO World Heritage Aasivissuit – Nipisat
  • Site manager, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Aasivissuit – Nipisat:
  • Paninnguaq Fleischer Lyberth
• Architect: Konstantin Ikonomidis, Arkitekt maa
  • Firm Name: Konstantin Arkitekter
  • Website: konstantin-ik.com/
  • Social media: instagram.com/konstantin_ik/
• Collaborator: Sisimiut Museum (Sisimiut Katersugaasiviat)

Team

• Site manager, UNESCO World Heritage Site, Aasivissuit – Nipisat: Paninnguaq Fleischer Lyberth
• Construction: Konstantin Ikonomidis with assistance from; Entreprenørpladsen Sisimiut, Jakob Olsen, Kloe Andressen, Faidra Oikonomopoulou, Telesilla Bristogianni, Elias Berthelsen, Esaias Berthelsen, Jan Banemann.
• Photography: Julien Lanoo
  • Website: www.julienlanoo.com/
  • Social media: instagram.com/julienlanoo/
• Sponsor and Patrons:
  • Napa: The Nordic Institutet in Greenland
  • Dreyers Foundation
  • WonderGlass
  • Dow Inc.
  • R&D Glass system: TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment
• Academic research
  • Research on suitable adhesive for glass:
    • Konstantin Ikonomidis in collaboration with:
    • R&D Glass system: TU Delft, Faculty of Architecture and the Built Environment – Faidra Oikonomopoulou and Telesilla Bristogianni with the help of Mariska van der Velden and Fred Veer.