The Town Square has a solid, lasting and beautiful floor of high-quality natural stone that underscores the Square’s magnificence. (Photographer: Glen Musk)

The Town Square has a solid, lasting and beautiful floor of high-quality natural stone that underscores the Square’s magnificence. We laid the natural stone in a pattern inspired by local Trøndersk textile patterning tradition, specifically as used in the local national costumes, and in tapestries, bedspreads, etc. Characteristic for Trøndersk textile patterning is the use of two-coloured pattern surfaces. As such, we laid the new inner part of the Square floor in stone of two different colours and gradations of darkness. We used the colour changes of light and dark slate slabs for division of the greater Town Square surface.

We used a more fine-meshed pattern with less granite and more contrast and colour in the furnishing zone between the large granite furnishing with trees. In cooperation with Agraff Architects, the artist Edith Lundebrekke prepared the pattern in the floor. We used slate from Oppdal, Offerdal (in Sweden) and Alta.

The compass rose and sundial are like a jewel, or brooch, in the new urban floor.