karres+brands, in collaboration with 3XN, Atelier Brückner, YOKE, and Orbicon, has been selected as one of five teams which will compete to design a new experience and knowledge center at the Trelleborg fortress in Slagelse (DK).

Trelleborg is the best preserved of five Viking fortresses believed to have been ordered by King Harald Blåtands in the year 980 AD. It was designed as an exact circle with two roads that crossed at right angles in the geometric center, leading to four gates with two gates always opposite each other. In each of the four quarters stood four almost identical longhouses arranged in a square. Unlike other ring castles, Trelleborg was extended with a sort of bailey. The whole fortress may have supplied room for some 1,300 people.

The new center will house an exhibition on the Vikings and their military life. It will help to create greater awareness and new information about the period - and on the UNESCO World Heritage-nominated archaeological sites.