Thermes Vals AT 7132 Hotel
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被2009年普利兹克奖得主彼得·祖姆托称赞为最佳完工作品之一的瓦尔斯温泉浴场，可能是瑞士当代建筑中最具标志性的建筑之一。作为其被认可为建筑杰作的立即证明，瓦尔斯温泉浴场在1996年完工仅两年后就被列为历史建筑。
坐落在偏远的瓦尔谷中，被中央阿尔卑斯山脉中的壮丽阿杜拉山所环绕，瓦尔斯小山村享有真正风景如画的位置。
彼得·祖姆托的浴场是用60,000块当地石英岩板砌成的：瓦尔谷片岩。
这种石材被制成1米长的条状，水平应用。石墙之间的颜色变化和错开排列使这些石墙看起来像是镀银的木饰板。
瓦尔斯温泉浴场是一个整体的建筑，却奇异地不显得压迫，尽管建筑内部的许多密室基本上没有窗户，结构也如迷宫般，但并不引起幽闭恐惧感。
结构内部极高的天花板在很大程度上有助于缓解这一点，也许是通过对比的自然石条来避免了这样一座建筑的过度野蛮主义特质，这些条状的自然石增添了墙壁的纺织质感。
就像它们是一种自然现象一样，立面呈现为对一大块多孔岩石的平凡切割，似乎略微从自然地形中突出出来，寻找光线。它们是对温泉浴场内部洞穴系统的精确切割的自然海拔。
在瓦尔斯温泉浴场雕刻的石头之间进行古老的沐浴仪式，绝对会给游客带来难得的愉悦体验，体验到一种真正的永恒建筑的典范。
Praised as one of the best completed works by 2009 Pritzker Laureate Peter Zumthor, the Vals Thermal Baths might be one of the most iconic buildings in Swiss contemporary architecture. As testament to the immediacy of its recognition as an architectural masterpiece, Therme Vals was listed as a historical building just 2 years after it’s completion in 1996.
Nestled in the remote Valsertal Valley, surrounded by the monumental Adula Mountains in the Central Alps, the small mountain village of Vals benefits from a truly picturesque location.
Peter Zumthor’s baths were built with 60,000 of the local quartzite stone slabs: the Valser Gneiss.
This stone was made into 1 meter long strips which were applied horizontally. The variations in colour between segments and the staggered arrangement makes these stone walls look like silvered timber cladding.
Therme Vals is monolithic yet strangely unimposing, and despite many of the inner sanctums of the building being largely windowless and maze-like in composition, no feelings of claustrophobia are invoked.
The enormously high ceilings throughout the structure do a lot to combat this, and perhaps the overtly brutalist aspects of such a building were averted through the use of contrasting strips of natural stone, which add a textile quality to the walls.
As if they were a natural occurrence, the façades appear as plain cuts into a large porous slab of stone that seem to emerge slightly from the natural topography, in search of light. They are the natural elevation of a precise cut into the interior cavern system of the baths.
Engaging in the ancient ritual of bathing amidst the chiseled stones of Vals Thermal Baths is definitely rewards its visitors with the rare pleasure of experiencing a genuine example of timeless architecture.
