建筑分析范例Thermal Baths at Vals.ppt

The Thermal Bath, Vals, Switzerland by Peter Zumthor Peter Zumthor Born 1943 Basel, Switzerland Education 1958 Apprenticeship in cabinet-making. 1963 Schuler für Gestalung, Basel, Switzerland. 1966 Pratt Institute, New York, USA, visiting student in architecture and design. Career 1968 Architect in the Department for the Care and Presentation of Monument, Canton Graubünden, Switzerland. 1988 Visiting professor, Southern California Institute of Architecture, Santa Monica, Los Angeles, USA. 1989 Visiting professor, Technische Universit?t München, Germany. 1989 Workshop leader, Granz Summer School, Austria. 1996 Honorary member, Bund Deutcher Architekten, BDA, Germany. Peter Zumther is an architect who cultivates singularity and retreat and mistrusts any kind of excessively theoretical stance instead he prefers to remain firmly nanchored to the reality of things around us and keenly alive to the sensations they stir. He believes that there are no ideas except in things. The meticulous attention Zumther pays to materials and to their visual, tactile and even olfactory attributes. He applies materials with the sophisticated precision and he pursues the skills and techniques of construction. Each of Zumthor’s works always responds to extraordinary architectural demands. Summery Out of the eastern flank of the basin-shaped valley of Vals, a good 1200 meters above sea level rises a spring. The site next to the spring was once occupied by a modest spa hotel dating from 1893.The hotel had a number of finely appointed bathing cabins and shower rooms, and from around 1930, its clientele dwindled. It was replaced by a new spa built in1960. The 1960s spa is simply built.In 1996, this second spa has in turn become obsolete and was replaced by the mew thermal bath at the end of 1996.The new thermal baths is an independent structure set into the sloping southwest corner of the existing hotel. Access is via a subterranean passage leading from the hotel. T