Iceland

I C E L A N D

Alfaborg Resorts

Bakkageði village, Borgarfjörður Eystri

In 2013 I lived and worked in Iceland, renovating two farms in Borgarfjörður Eystri and a one-family house in Akureyri. During the long nights without sunset I had time for studying Viking architecture and archaeology, spending  hundreds of hours at the public library of Akureyri. The idea of a complex of resorts was born ten year later when I was envolved into a project of renovation in norther Iceland. It was the occasion to be inspired by the Rock of the Queen of the Elves in Bakkageði village where I lived. The concept is based on the idea that Iceland is one of those lands that cannot be really understood if just experienced as tourist. It must be deeply lived with the magic of its fairy tales and legendary sagas, learning about its unique spiritual creatures living in rocks, rivers, plants. The Alfaborg Resorts project aims to make possible to experience Iceland as a medieval Icelander in spiritual connection with elves and trolls as I did at the Alfaborg hill. The project is looking for investors. Investment 2M €.

Icelandic Poems

by Thomas Allocca

Home

Four are the places that mark our existence.

No matter how much we can travel the world.

They will always be four, no more than four.

Where we born, where we fall in love, where we feel at home, where we die.

Birth, love, death, are linked to places that the universe decides for us.

Where we feel at home, it's up to us.

"Find out where this place is", the old fisherman told me at Bakkagerði,

"and you will born again, there; you will fall in love there;

and you will never die there, because you will never die anywhere".

It was in Iceland when I found that place, finally.

But it was not Iceland. It was me.

October 2024

Architecture. A Matter of Balance

In the green peace of Ireland,

my soul found the meaning of poetry.

In the white storms of the elven Iceland,

the meaning of the essence.

And this is how Architecture works at its best,

when it fights between Ireland and Iceland,

- a matter of balance -

between the timeless elegance of poetry,

and nothing but the essence.

October 2024