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1996 · Vals, Graubunden, Switzerland

Vals, Graubunden, Switzerland

10°C · 13.9h daylight · 8 km/h wind

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Therme Vals

Vals, Graubunden, Switzerland · Exact work coordinates

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Vals, Graubunden, Switzerland

Climate: 10°C · 13.9h daylight · 8 km/h wind

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Field	Therme Vals 1996 · Vals, Graubunden, Switzerland	Kenzo Tange Associates 1946 · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Type	work	bureau
Year / years	1996	1946
Place	Vals, Graubunden, Switzerland	Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan
Place context	Vals, Graubunden, Switzerland	Representative site: Minneapolis, Minneapolis, United States
Climate	10°C · 13.9h daylight · 8 km/h wind	-1°C · 13.8h daylight · 6 km/h wind · via Minneapolis Institute of Art
Focus	Thermal baths	28 works in corpus
Architects	Peter Zumthor	Kenzo Tange
Linked context	Bureaus Atelier Peter Zumthor	Notable works Minneapolis Institute of Art Assumption of Mary Cathedral, Hiroshima Grand Prince Hotel Akasaka Hiroshima Peace Memorial Museum
Typologies	bathhouse hospitality landscape	museum church sacred space cathedral memorial hospitality landscape sports venue
Materials	quartzite concrete water	concrete
Carbon signals	Concrete, Quartzite, and Water look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete Quartzite Water	Concrete look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette. Concrete
Lower-carbon levers	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps. Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.	Look for lower-clinker mixes, reused structure, and scope reductions before fine-grained product swaps.
Accessibility	Publicly accessible	13 of 13 recorded works are publicly accessible
Related books	Thinking Architecture	No linked books yet.