Peter zumthor

Ideology of architect Peter Zumthor and his two examples. Winner of 2009 pritzker prize is a Swiss architect.

1. Peter zumthor My buildings are declarations of love for their sites... - PETER ZUMTHOR

2. INTRODUCTION Born on 26 th April !943 is an Swiss architect. Zumthor founded his own firm in 1979. He won Pritzker prize for Therme Vals in 2009. His buildings explore the tactile and sensory qualities of spaces and materials while retaining a minimalist feel. He believes that in the end of every conceptual thinking starts real architecture which is based on structure and materials. Zumthor foregrounds the materiality of his buildings, so that this and his wonderful feeling of materials is what probably strikes first, and then perhaps the beautiful, understated ‘rightness’ of his details – all of these the products of a master craftsman who studied to be a cabinet maker and then learned about materials and construction from the restoration of historic buildings.  His work on historic restoration projects gave him a further understanding of construction and the qualities of different rustic building materials. PETER ZUMTHOR

3. WORKS THERME VAL BATHS, SWITZERLAND THE SWISS PAVILION FOR EXPO 2000 IN HANNOVER, AN ALL-TIMBER STRUCTURE INTENDED TO BE RECYCLED AFTER THE EVENT THE  KOLUMBA DIOCESAN MUSEUM  (2007), IN COLOGNE, GERMANY BRUDER KLAUS FIELD CHAPEL , ON A FARM NEAR WACHENDORF, GERMANY INTERIOR OF THE CHAPEL (MELTED LEAD IS USED)   KUNSTHAUS BREGENZ , VORARLBERG, AUSTRIA (1997)

4. THERME VALS “Mountain, stone, water – building in the stone, building with the stone, into the mountain, building out of the mountain, being inside the mountain – how can the implications and the sensuality of the association of these words be interpreted, architecturally?” - Peter Zumthor Location: Graubünden, Switzerland Design and Construction: 1986-1996 Client: Municipality of Vals, Graubünden Special features – MOUNTAIN :GEOLOGY OF THE SITE BUILT INTO THE MOUNTAINS MATERIAL: STONE WATER:FUNCTION___BATH SOURCE : http://www.archdaily.com/13358/the-therme-vals

5. HISTORY In the 1960s a German property developer, Karl Kurt Vorlop , built a hotel complex with over 1,000 beds to take advantage of the naturally occurring thermal springs and the source, which provides the water for  Valser mineral water, sold throughout Switzerland. After the developer went bankrupt, the village of Vals bought up the five hotels in the development in 1983 and resolved to commission a hydrotherapy centre at the centre of the five hotels, at the source of the thermal springs. In 2012 the hotel and spa, previously owned by the Vals community, was sold to the investor Remo Stoffel .

6. The Therme Vals is a hotel and spa for which the idea was to create a form of cave or quarry like structure.  The idea of a quarry , were cut out of the single blocks, so that between the stacked and cut out block caves are created. The Therme Vals is built from layer upon layer of locally quarried Valser Quarzite slabs. The ‘natural’ thermal water which comes from the mountain just behind the baths has a temperature of 30°C. There is no directly visible entrance to the building - the visitors are access to the complex through a tunnel. Architecture is bridging the gap between the randomness of nature and man-made construction.

7. Building siting . Therme vals sits in the hillside as a natural rock outcropping, balanced between the existing buildings on the site, navigating views and visits. Vals at the base of the swiss alps is about, water, and the landscape. Therme vals is about water, in the landscape. THE BUILDING TAKES THE FORM OF A LARGE, GRASS COVERED STONE OBJECT SET DEEP INTO THE MOUNTAIN

8. The spa building is made up of 15 different table-like units, 5 metres in height,with cantilevered concrete of units supported by tie-beams.  The roofs of the units don’t join, with the 8 cm gaps covered by glass to prevent water ingress. The composite masonry blocks are 60,000 cut to one meter length slabs (metamorphic rock of feldspar, quartz and mica formed). Whilst these initially appear random, like an ashlar wall, there is a regular order. The cladding stones are of three different heights, but the total of the three is always 15 cm, so it allows for variety in arrangement, whilst facilitating construction. THE BLOCKS WERE FORMED WITH 15-CENTIMETER-THICK PLATES, STACKED BY HANDS, WHICH IN TURN CONSIST OF THREE LAYERS OF DIFFERENT THICKNESSES SLABS. THIS ENABLED A SIMPLE CONSTRUCTION, ALTHOUGH THE ARRANGEMENT OF THE EYE LOOKS RANDOM. SOURCE : http://www.wikiwand.com/de/Therme_Vals#/overview GAP BETWEEN THE BLOCKS A SECRET HIDEAWAY- THE ROOF PANELS ARE EXTENSIVELY PLANTED WITH GRASS AND THEREBY INTEGRATE INTO THE LANDSCAPE.

9. Each block carries a respective roof section of concrete that juts in some places up to six meters.  Since the underlying blocks are smaller than the roof plates, intermediate spaces through which the bath is accessible.  The blocks form the facade of the building.  The building is divided into a bathing plane above and a therapeutic and operational level below. SOURCE : http://140.116.249.155/file.php/64928/Therme_Vals_Peter_Zumthor.pdf LONGITUDINAL AND CROSS SECTIONS SHOWING EXPANSION JOINT

10. TOP VIEWS OF BLOCKS AS ARRANGED BETWEEN THE BLOCKS BETWEEN THE BLOCKS DETERMINING FORM

11. EXTERIOR AND IINTERIOR VIEWS OF THERME BATH

12. SWISS PAVILION 'SOUND BOX' HANNOVER Location: Hanover , Germany. Building Size: 3019 square meters. Construction:   153 Days, 99 stacks, 144 kilometers of unseasoned wood. Designed specifically for the 2000 expo in Hannover. Used one primary element for a multitude of tasks, i.e., wood. SOURCE : https://folio.brighton.ac.uk/user/mg237/exemplary-project-swiss-pavilion-sound-box-designed-by-peter-zumthor SITE VIEW

13. The temporary construction was designed according to the main theme of the exhibition, sustainability.  Taking the theme of sustainability seriously, the pavilion was constructed out of 144 kilometers of unseasoned wood, with a cross section of 20x10cm. In total building consists of 45,000 boards and 2,800 cubic meters of larch and Douglas pine from Swiss forests. The pavilion was assembled without any glue, bolts or nails. Its 9 meter high walls divide up the internal spaces according to a complex maze-like logic, while ceilings made of larch beams rest on vertical beams of Scotch pine. They were hold in place by steel cables connected to spring tie rods with an elegant minimal design ‘following the nature of the wood as a changing, living material’. After the closure of the Expo, the building was dismantled and the beams were sold as a seasoned timber. SOURCE : https://folio.brighton.ac.uk/user/mg237/exemplary-project-swiss-pavilion-sound-box-designed-by-peter-zumthor PAVILION PLAN SECTION SHOWING DIFFERENT PARTS OF PAVILION

14.  The main idea for the design, was to offer something specific and useful to the Expo visitors, who would be tired from studying all the theoretical and virtual informations in the other national pavilions. The concept was to design a welcoming place to rest and relax, a place offering a traditional Swiss snacks for thirsty or hungry visitors, with a relaxed atmosphere and a live music rambling around. Zumthor main intention was to create an ideal combination of performing art, music, drama, and decor into a form of ‘total theater’. This effect was accomplished through the aesthetics of the building and its structure, also as a result of the modular textures of the continuous, regular chiaroscuro ( use of strong contrasts between light and dark) effect of the wooden boards and the gaps between them, which draw a horizontal score contradicted on the inside by the height of the dividing walls. The result is a harmonious, balanced architecture, in which the theme of stacked wood is a continual reminder of the building's ephemeral vocation. SOURCE : https://folio.brighton.ac.uk/user/mg237/exemplary-project-swiss-pavilion-sound-box-designed-by-peter-zumthor STRUCTURAL MODELS  OF SWISS PAVILION

15. INTERIOR BAR AREA STRUCTURAL MODEL  OF SWISS PAVILION ROOF CONSTRUCTION COMPONENTS  INTERIOR LABYRINTH INTERIOR SITTING AREA 

16. “In each of my works, each material has laid down its own laws... Projects are born out of an idea, and in my case this idea is always accompanied by a material. I can't imagine a method of design in which the architect first decides on the form, and then on the materials“ – PETER ZUMTHOR. SOURCE : http://www.floornature.com/projects-commerce/project-p-zumthor-swiss-pavilion-at-expo-2000-in-hanover-4032/

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