Viking buildings

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Late in the Ragnarok production cycle, I had the opportunity to design a set of large, medium, and small Asgardian house structures we would build to use as a kit foundation for building out a city street. I studied a lot of old 13th-century Norweigan-style homes and found inspiration for different form and materials features I could add to my designs that would help push variation in the final houses we built.

Traditional Viking hut at Trelleborg Viking Market, Sweden. Photo: René Eriksen on 500px

A Tuscan challenge Modern archaeology cannot turn a blind eye to its importance in contemporary society. There is a huge and growing appetite for visiting archaeological sites as global tourism grows at an extraordinary pace. So, although my European Research Council project under the Tuscan sun does not envisage a popular archaeological outcome for our main excavations at Vetricella, there is nonetheless a compelling need to think about making something permanent at the site that will…