About Zumthor Thermal Baths
Therme Vals (1996) is Peter Zumthor's half-buried thermal bath in the Swiss Alps, built from sixty thousand slabs of greenish-grey Valser quartzite. Its documented sensory experience is rough wet stone, dark water, muffled sound, and shadow.
This system distills that phenomenology: a dark greenish-slate ground, stratified slab layers, controlled slots of dim light, and low-contrast stone-tone panels. No ornament, no gloss — material and atmosphere carry everything.
- Origin
- Vals, Graubünden, Swiss Alps
- Era
- 1990–2010 (Therme Vals completed 1996)
- Key figures
- Peter Zumthor
- Movements
- Architectural phenomenology · Swiss minimalism · Material/atmosphere-driven design
Zumthor Thermal Baths design spec
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