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Therme Vals

1996 · Vals, Graubunden, Switzerland

Vals, Graubunden, Switzerland

14°C · 14.0h daylight · 11 km/h wind

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Therme Vals

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Therme Vals

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Vals, Graubunden, Switzerland

Climate: 14°C · 14.0h daylight · 11 km/h wind

Mapping: Exact work coordinates

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Therme Vals

1996 · Vals, Graubunden, Switzerland

Oscar NiemeyerOscar Niemeyer

1940 · Rio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil

Typeworkbureau
Year / years19961940
PlaceVals, Graubunden, SwitzerlandRio de Janeiro, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Place contextVals, Graubunden, SwitzerlandRepresentative site: Milan, Milan, Italy
Climate14°C · 14.0h daylight · 11 km/h wind21°C · 13.9h daylight · 8 km/h wind · via Mondadori
FocusThermal baths58 works in corpus
Architects
  • Peter Zumthor
  • Oscar Niemeyer
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Atelier Peter Zumthor

Notable works

  • Mondadori
  • Grande Hotel of Ouro Preto
  • Casa do Baile
  • Church of Saint Francis of Assisi, Pampulha
Typologies
  • bathhouse
  • hospitality
  • landscape
  • building
  • hospitality
  • church
  • sacred space
  • chapel
  • landscape
  • performance venue
  • gallery
Materials
  • quartzite
  • concrete
  • water
  • concrete
  • glass
Carbon signals

Concrete, Quartzite, and Water look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete
  • Quartzite
  • Water

Concrete and Glass look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Concrete
  • Glass
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.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible24 of 24 recorded works are publicly accessible
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