Bergaliv

When Staffan Michelson a former moonlight farmer in the '70s, and a lawyer in environmental law some years ago was looking to buy some woodland in his ancestors´ Hälsingland, he didn´t know that the forest to capture his soul was thriving on a mountain close to Ljusnan River.

The former ski slope was covered by a tender birch grove. With a view for miles of the Ljusnan River Valley, a feeling appeared that this was something more than just an estate forestry. This was a place where the closeness of the mountain forest worked in perfect balance with the cool tranquility of the wide-open spaces.
The daughters encouraged and drew a sketch of the landscape hotel – a hotel to blend in with the nature and highlight its natural beauty. Both houses are built on piles, the goal is four houses. The houses will be built apart from each other so you will get the feeling that you are all alone in the forest. A place of reflection and tranquility! You walk up the mountain to get the experience of infinity. Meekness – helps to create reflection, good standards, eternity. The family company, established almost 10 years ago has been called Bergaliv.

Bergaliv´s basic purpose, explicitly declared in the company´s articles of association, is to promote a sustainable development and conduce to a healthy and good environment, characterized by social, cultural, and ecological well-being among contemporary and future generations.

Circular Strategy: Regenerate

Country: Sweden

The Loft houses

The loft houses on the Åsberget Mountain in Hälsingland, Sweden, manifest the basic ideology of the business. Building materials are heartwood from the province´s pine and spruce forests, with flax fibre for insulation, and birch for the interiors.

The houses are built with a diffusion-open construction excluding all plastics, biocides or other synthetic materials that could be risky for the indoor climate or the environment.
In brief: the houses breath fresh air. In each house, there is an electric incineration toilet leaving no other waste than nutritious ashes, a perfect fertilizer for cultivations nearby.

Bergaliv´s loft houses demonstrate the idea of plain luxury in natural cycles. The houses are drawn and built with deep deference to the living impetus that formed this landscape, its fields, barns, houses, the river, the roads, man, wildlife, the mountains, and the forests. Up here, we want our guests to fall asleep and wake up embedded with the feeling of participation in nature and landscape, thus recalling the sense of coherence in life on earth.

Retreat to nature for a stay of simplicity and balance in the Loft House, high above the tree tops on a mountain slope by the Ljusnan River Valley in Hälsingland.

Financial impact
Contributes to our guests' positive disposition and creativity. Positive thinking for sustainable development. Illustrating simplification.

Social impact
Local collaborations with other locals contribute to the improvement of the quality of life of the locality.

Bergaliv mets 7 SDGs out of the 17, namely – Goals 3, 8, 9, 11, 14, 15 and 16.

Environmental impact
Building materials are heartwood from the province´s pine and spruce forests, with flax fibre for insulation, and birch for the interiors. The houses are built with a diffusion-open construction excluding all plastics, biocides or other synthetic materials that could be risky for the indoor climate or the environment. In brief: the houses breath fresh air. In each house there is an electric incineration toilet leaving no other waste than nutritious ashes, a perfect fertilizer for cultivations nearby.

Human resources
The personnel to bring food and water.

Financial resources
Financial resources needed for the building materials.

Other resources
No other resources have been mentioned.