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Untitled Document Peter Zumthors “An architecture which renounces formal integration into the existing Thermal Bath Vals buildings in order to bite more deeply, to suggest what seemed more Vals, Graubunden, fundamental to us in connection with the task in hand; namely, to 1990-1996 place the thermal bath in a particular relationship with the primal strength and geological substance of the mountain scenery and the impressive relief of the topography.” Description The entrance into the Vals Thermes is accessed through a subterranean passage from the hotel. Half sunk into the earth, the entrance leads to the darkest part of the building, located in the mountain. The motion through the building slowly reveals its stunning views; as one travels from the narrow caverns by the mountain towards the daylight in front the perception is changed. The monolithic construction system of a consistent composite of stone layering and reinforced concrete break up; the building as a whole resembles a large porous stone. It blends nicely into its surroundings, patiently ‘hand-crafted’ with local Valser quartzite. The concrete ceiling of the fluid overall space has light slits or ‘fissures’. As an other kind of ‘fissure’, the iron richness of the water pours out from wall-mounted copper pipes and stains the stone that lies beneath its flow. The baths, made out of stone, interlock into each other and protect the more private therapy level which includes