Therme Vals

A bathhouse built from 60,000 slabs of local quartzite, half buried into the alpine hillside.

Why this matters

All stone quarried within 1 km of the site
Light enters through narrow slits cut between concrete roof beams
Each pool tuned to a different temperature, sound and smell
A modern temple to thermal bathing — frequently called "the most atmospheric building of the 1990s"

Reference prompt

minimalist thermal bath of stacked grey quartzite slabs, narrow skylights, steam over water, Peter Zumthor Therme Vals

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Drawings · Pro

Floor plans, sections and elevations for this building will appear here.
Coming with archpin v0.3 — a 200-building drawings pack curated from published monographs.

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Source

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Therme_Vals ↗

Photo: Mike Lehmann / Wikimedia (CC BY-SA)