Granberget is not somewhere you end up by accident.
Tåsjödalen has been part of my life for as long as I can remember. My father grew up here, and our family has lived in the area for a long time. Parts of my own childhood are here, too. Later, life took me far away. I studied engineering physics and went on to work internationally in the IT and technology industry. At times I spent more than 200 days a year travelling and worked on every continent.
Yet however busy life became, and however far away I was, I longed to return to Tåsjödalen and, later, Granberget. It was almost a physical connection to the place.
When I met Cornelia and we realised we wanted to share our lives, one question felt more important than it perhaps should have: would she like Granberget? The place mattered so much to me that I knew I could never leave it behind.
It soon turned out that I had worried for nothing.
Cornelia is from Germany and moved to Uppsala at the age of twenty to study medicine. There she met a Scottish woman studying to become a veterinarian. They became best friends and still are. By sheer coincidence, her friend’s family had a farm a few dozen kilometres outside Strömsund. So Cornelia had already spent summers, winters, Easters and springs in this area for almost twenty years.
When she came to Granberget, the landscape was anything but unfamiliar. Over time, she not only grew fond of the place but developed the same strong connection to it that I had always felt. Today we fish together, ride snowmobiles together and are preparing to start hunting together, too.
We both came from demanding professional lives. Cornelia is a doctor specialising in anaesthesia. She has worked in intensive care and cardiothoracic care with critically ill heart patients, and later held medical responsibility for clinical trials. For years, our everyday lives had been shaped by a fast pace, responsibility and travel.
Then came the pandemic. Travel stopped almost overnight, and suddenly we could spend longer, uninterrupted periods at Granberget. That was also when the idea began to grow: perhaps we could create something here, with the ambition of eventually helping to provide new jobs in the Tåsjö area.
Firewood production was the first step.
Firewood is best produced outdoors, so from late February and early March we worked outside every day. At first, temperatures could be around minus thirty degrees and the snow was deep. Then something began to change, almost imperceptibly from one day to the next.
The light returned. The sun began to warm us. The snow changed texture. The season between winter and spring arrived, followed by spring, early summer and finally summer.
From the outside, the work itself may have looked rather monotonous. We stood at a firewood processor, cutting and splitting logs. But all around us, a slow and utterly fascinating transformation was taking place. After careers largely defined by airports, hotels, meetings and deadlines, we had our first opportunity to watch nature awaken up close, day after day.
It affected us more deeply than we had expected.
And somewhere during that first season, Granberget changed for us. It was no longer just a place we loved returning to. It became a place where we wanted to live, work and build something together.
This was where we wanted to continue.
During the summer of 2026, we selected three pilot partners from almost 100 applications from Sweden and abroad. The pilot year has now begun with installations in Hemavan, Åre and Borgafjäll.
Under sommaren 2026 valde vi ut tre pilotkunder bland närmare 100 intresseanmälningar från Sverige och andra länder. Pilotåret har nu inletts med installationer i Hemavan, Åre och Borgafjäll.
Tillsammans med våra pilotkunder kommer vi under det kommande året att vidareutveckla varje del av Scandinavian Domes – från materialval och hantverk till logistik, installation och långsiktig hållbarhet – inför den bredare marknadslanseringen 2027.