Østengen & Bergo AS is a landscape architecture firm founded in 1996 by partners Kari Bergo and Johan Østengen. The office works with landscape architecture and local development in every scale – from pocket parks to regional plans – always with high ambitions regarding giving every project a green profile to enhance public health and wellbeing. By having the users contribute with their knowledge and wishes, with the human scale in mind, the firm have completed several complex school, transportation, and public space projects from the early sketching phases to completion. In all our projects, we aim to be environmentally conscious – thinking about all the aspects ranging from biodiversity, rainwater management, materials to recycled materials.
“We always seek sustainable and functional solutions that inspire and invite to recreation and activity. Looking back, the ambitions behind each project and what we seek to accomplish is the same – we still want to enhance green space in our public environment. The difference is the public’s awareness, through changed regulations. Rainwater management has particularly in the bigger cities become a strict requirement, not only an environmentally conscious contribution to our design. So has design for everyone, “universal design” that grants equal access for everyone.”
Published on September 25, 2023
