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Therme Vals

1996 · Vals, Graubunden, Switzerland

Vals, Graubunden, Switzerland

1°C · 14.0h daylight · 3 km/h wind

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Vals, Graubunden, Switzerland · Exact work coordinates

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Vals, Graubunden, Switzerland

Climate: 1°C · 14.0h daylight · 3 km/h wind

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Therme Vals

1996 · Vals, Graubunden, Switzerland

Richard Meier & Partners ArchitectsRichard Meier & Partners Architects

1963 · New York, New York, United States

Typeworkbureau
Year / years19961963
PlaceVals, Graubunden, SwitzerlandNew York, New York, United States
Place contextVals, Graubunden, SwitzerlandRepresentative site: Frankfurt-Süd, Frankfurt-Süd, Germany
Climate1°C · 14.0h daylight · 3 km/h wind5°C · 14.2h daylight · 6 km/h wind · via Museum Angewandte Kunst
FocusThermal baths21 works in corpus
Architects
  • Peter Zumthor
  • Richard Meier
Linked context

Bureaus

  • Atelier Peter Zumthor

Notable works

  • Museum Angewandte Kunst
  • Des Moines Art Center
  • Frederick J. Smith House
  • J. Paul Getty Museum
Typologies
  • bathhouse
  • hospitality
  • landscape
  • museum
  • house
  • campus building
  • performance venue
  • temple
  • sacred space
  • civic building
  • landscape
Materials
  • quartzite
  • concrete
  • water
  • adobe
  • glass
  • stone
Carbon signals

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

  • Concrete
  • Quartzite
  • Water

Adobe, Glass, and Stone look like the main embodied-carbon drivers in the current palette.

  • Adobe
  • Glass
  • Stone
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.
  • Use classification and product-level EPD research to place this material more precisely.
  • Compare system-level facade options, reduce overspecification, and pair glass choices with structural reductions.
  • Check source geography, fabrication intensity, and whether stone is structural, cladding, or finish-only.
AccessibilityPublicly accessible11 of 11 recorded works are publicly accessible
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