zumthor Projects 15 Created 18-Nov-11 By Huang Rui, Copenhagen, Denmark Kunsthaus Bregenz Bregenz, Austria museum Kunsthaus Bregenz Square Therme Vals Hotel Therme Vals Church San Benedetg House Truog Gugalun Shelters for Roman Archaeological Site 5 Kolumba School Churwalden 11 Annalisa Zumthor House 12 Atelier Zumthor 13 Haldenstein, atelier, private house 6 Spittelhof Housing Estate 14 Biel-Benken, housing, urban plan 7 Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011 15 London, United Kingdom garden, pavilion 8 Chur, exposition space, landmark, shed 10 Vals, private house Versam, private house 4 Sumvitg, church Bruder Klaus Chapel Churwalden, primary school, secondary school, sport Vals, hotel 3 Vals, spa Wachendorf, Germany chapel, landmark, religion, sculpture Bregenz, Austria bar, cafe, library, office, shop 2 COACAN 16 Santander, Spain Capilla Vallejo Arquitectos education, exposition space, leisure, mixed-use development 9 Cologne, Germany museum http://wwwmimoaeu/users/ray/guides/zumthor/ 1
photo: Hélène Binet photo: Markus Tretter / Siegrun Appelt Kunsthaus Bregenz Karl Tizian Platz 1 6900 Bregenz Austria http://wwwkunsthaus-bregenzat : "The art museum stands in the light of Lake Constance It is made of glass and steel and a cast concrete stone mass which endows the interior of the building with texture and spatial composition From the outside, the building looks like a lamp It absorbs the changing light of the sky, the haze of the lake, it reflects light and colour and gives an intimation of its inner life according to the angle of vision, the daylight and the weather" How much more incitement do you need? photo: Hélène Binet Floor area/size 7-1997 33440 m², Interior architect MI_MOA Kunsthaus Bregenz Tuesday - Sunday 10 am - 6 pm Thursday 10 am - 9 pm Monday closed http://wwwmimoaeu/users/ray/guides/zumthor/ 2
photo: Markus Tretter photo: Markus Tretter Kunsthaus Bregenz Square Karl Tizian Platz 1 6900 Bregenz Austria http://wwwkunsthaus-bregenzat/ The shiny black building (an anthracite surface) in front of the KUB houses both the shop and a café-bar on the ground floor, in addition to administration offices and the library on the first floor This administration building, situated in front of the museum towards the city centre, acts as a transitional structure to the smaller and low buildings of the old part of the town All functional facilities of the Kunsthaus other than those directly associated with the presentation of art are housed separately in this smaller building Not only the whole of the café and bar area bears the architectural signature of ; the kitchen is also designed in exposed black concrete as well as the black square in front of the café, where visitors to the KUB Café prefer to sit at the round tables when the weather is good At night, the café turns into a classic cocktail bar Often the current exhibition includes open-air events photo: Markus Tretter Floor area/size 6-1997 2680 m², Interior architect, Landscape architect MI_MOA Kunsthaus Bregenz Cafe-bar: from 1000 am to 100 am daily Shop: 1100 am to 600 pm daily, closed Mondays http://wwwmimoaeu/users/ray/guides/zumthor/ 3
photo: Margherita Spiluttini photo: Margherita Spiluttini Therme Vals Hotel Therme 7132 Vals http://wwwtherme-valsch/ With the only thermal spring in Graubünden, the Therme Spa is a stunning landmark built from 60 000 stone slabs of Valser quartzite Stone by stone The combinations of light and shade, open and enclosed spaces and linear elements make for a highly sensuous and restorative experience Only two years after its completion the Therme was listed as a protected building It has been described as a lesson in combining audacity with aesthetics, a totally unique, yet traditional spa and therapeutic centre that is the last word in peaceful sensuality, and a world first in spas The Vals quartzite quarried just two kilometres from where the building stands The great slabs of the roof are grassed over: sections of flower studded alpine meadow photo: Henry Pierre Schultz 1996 Lighting designer Viabizzuno Hotel und Thermalbad Vals AG MI_MOA daily: 11:00-20:00 Season 2006/2007: 17th June 2006 9th April 2007 Season 2007/2008: 26 May 2007-30 March 2008 Open to children from 5 years old The bathing facilities are open to Hotel Therme guests from 07:00 Night bathing for hotel guests: Sunday: 2230-2400 Wednesday: 22:30-24:00 Thursday: 22:30-24:00 Car: from Zürich take the high-way to Chur 8 kms after Chur follow signs to Flims / Laax / Ilanz In Ilanz follow signs for Vals which lead to the entrance of Vals valley If you choose to take the route over "Oberalppass", only open in summer, you have to leave the main road in Ilanz too Train: From Zürich Kloten airport, train to Zürich HB Central station From there, train for Chur In Chur, change to Ilanz/Disentis In Ilanz take a bus to Vals Zurich Kloten to Vals is about 200 km http://wwwmimoaeu/users/ray/guides/zumthor/ 4
photo: Walter Mair photo: Walter Mair Hotel Therme Vals Hotel Therme 7132 Vals http://wwwtherme-valsch/ In the Hotel adjacent to the world famous Therme Spa Peter Zumthor has redesigned 52 rooms without altering the hotel s original 1960s structure As part of the redevelopment, Der Rote Saal (The Red Room), the hotel s restaurant, was extended Although some parts of the complex are still in their original state, they are all gradually being brought up to the standard of the Therme itself, meaning the guest experiences In 1983, the town council bought the thermal spring and hotel, and the company that manages the site today, Hotel und Thermalbad Vals AG, is still 100% owned by the council In 1986,, an architect from Haldenstein,, was commissioned to build a new spa, and the resulting project received praise from around the world It has been described as a lesson in combining audacity with aesthetics, a totally unique, yet traditional spa and therapeutic centre that is the last word in peaceful sensuality, and a world first in spas 2007 Hotel und Thermalbad Vals AG MI_MOA photo: Walter Mair 24/7 By rail with the SBB Swiss Federal Railways to Chur, change to the Rhätische Bahn as far as Ilanz and then by postal coach to Vals (20 km) Access by road via Chur - Flims - Ilanz http://wwwmimoaeu/users/ray/guides/zumthor/ 5
photo: Marloes Faber photo: Marloes Faber Church San Benedetg Caplutta Sogn Benedetg Sumvitg http://wwwsumvitgch/ This Zumthor church in a small village located in the Mountains is a cylinder that turns into an oval and then into a keel: the geometry of this church, however definite, is also dynamic and elusive to the eye, all this exacerbated by the implantation of the building on a steep slope The church has a wooden construction and the façade is made with wooden shingles, wooden snips, similar to the locally build houses The building is very carefully detailed even on places you would normally not come (like behind the concrete stairs of the entrance) The setting is wonderful 1988 City of Sumvitg Marloes_Faber photo: Marloes Faber You can visit the church daily apart from Sunday Take the car to Sumvitg in the canton of Graubünden In this village is one road up to San Benedigt (different ways to write) It's about a km tough climbing for the car In San Benedigt it is easy to find your way to the church http://wwwmimoaeu/users/ray/guides/zumthor/ 6
photo: Marloes Faber photo: Marloes Faber House Truog Gugalun Gugalun 7104 Versam Between the mountains you can find a little Zumthor-house The first part of the house is an old Switch cottage Zumthor build on to this cottage on a very subtle way Project is not public! photo: Marloes Faber 1994 Bernadette and Peter Truog Marloes_Faber It is not easy to get there You have to pass Versam to the south You have to drive about 1,5km by car after you will pass the last hotel in Versam Then you will have to take a small road to the right (before a tunnel) Then it is maybe 500m up to the hill The Gugalun is not visible from any place so look after a strange mailbox behind the road Park your car somewhere in the grass and go further by feet, good luck! http://wwwmimoaeu/users/ray/guides/zumthor/ 7
photo: João Morgado photo: João Morgado Shelters for Roman Archaeological Site Seilerbahnweg 17 7000 Chur Protective housing for the remains of the foundations of three Roman Buildings (which one of those only a corner is visible) This protective casing for the archaeological finds was conceived as a kind of abstract reconstruction of the Roman volumes: a lightweight framework for walls made of timer lamella which admit light and air exactly follows the Roman outer walls, thus producing a package-like effect which give a visible form to location of the Roman buildings in today's city landscape photo: João Morgado 10-1986 City of Chur JMMM http://wwwmimoaeu/users/ray/guides/zumthor/ 8
photo: Hélène Binet photo: Hélène Binet Kolumba Kolumbastraße 4 50667 Cologne Germany http://wwwkolumbade/ Kolumba is the art museum of the archbishopric of Cologne As combination of place, collection and architecture it allows the visitor to experience two millennia of western culture in one building housing art from late antiquity to the present The architecture combines the ruins of the late Gothic church St Kolumba, the chapel Madonna in the Ruins (1950), the unique archaeological excavation (1973-1976), and the new building designed by the Swiss architect The warm grey brick of the massive building unite with the tuffs, basalt and bricks of the ruins A secret garden, stone ruins, a uniquely dense archaeological site: the ruins of the gothic church in the center of rebuilt Cologne are the most impressive symbol of the city s almost complete destruction during the Second World War Kolumba allows visitors to immerse themselves in the presence of their memories and offers them their own experiences on their way Floor area/size 9-2007 6200 m² Erzbistum Generalvikariat MI_MOA photo: Hélène Binet Wednesday to Monday 12 to 5 pm closed on Tuesdays http://wwwmimoaeu/users/ray/guides/zumthor/ 9
photo: HJ Imhoff photo: HJ Imhoff Bruder Klaus Chapel Rißdorfer Weg 53894 Wachendorf Germany A small concrete chapel on the edge of a field in Mechernich, southern Germany, built by local farmers in honor of their patron saint, the 15th-century hermit Bruder Klaus 5-2007, Artist, Interior architect, Landscape architect, Urban planner HJI Hermann-Josef and Trudel Scheidtweiler photo: HJ Imhoff The chapel is open from 1000h to 1600h - but this might change depending on the season When in Wachendorf, take the Rißdorfer Weg and follow the road till you see the chapel on your right The road to the chapel has been closed for cars, so you need to walk a bit from the car park to reach the building http://wwwmimoaeu/users/ray/guides/zumthor/ 10
photo: Alessandro Conti photo: Alessandro Conti School Churwalden Witiwäg 19 7075 Churwalden http://wwwchurwaldench/ Very early work by, this addition to a school complex consist of two new classrooms buildings and a gymnasium, built out of concrete bricks The classrooms develop in two levels: entrance on a main corridor with a first working-space, individual staircase leading to the upper floor, that is the main teaching space, opening on a garden in the back From the outside, the gym looks as a 3-naves church; the interior reveals that the roof of the shape is given by the structure, running longitudinal to the gym photo: Alessandro Conti Project is not public! 1982 alekf By appointment http://wwwmimoaeu/users/ray/guides/zumthor/ 11
photo: Ralph Kent photo: Ralph Kent Annalisa Zumthor House Leis 7132 Vals The small idyllic Swiss village of Leis is expanding in the form of two new houses, designed by Swiss architect of thermal bath fame The lower of the two is called the Annalisa Zumthor House in honor of Zumthor s wife for whom the house was built The other is a rental Both houses are constructed in the Strickbau technique of solid laced-beam construction, a method that Zumthor seems increasingly keen on recently photo: Ralph Kent Project is not public! 2009 Annalisa Zumthor jrhartley Drive up above Vals, opposite a restaurant/bar on the south side of the valley above the town http://wwwmimoaeu/users/ray/guides/zumthor/ 12
photo: Ralph Kent photo: Ralph Kent Atelier Zumthor Suesswinggel 20 7023 Haldenstein This is 's studio in the small village of Haldenstein, just outside of Chur in the Graubunden region of The first studio was built in 1986, with the concrete extension adjacent to his private family home - added in 2005 Project is not public! 1986 jrhartley photo: Ralph Kent The area is not fenced off, but your attention is drawn to a small plaque near the door of the concrete atelier extension which reminds people that this is 's family home and to respect his privacy Park in the centre of Haldenstein and wander up north, you will pass the Zumthor atelier http://wwwmimoaeu/users/ray/guides/zumthor/ 13
photo: Jeroen Meijer photo: Jeroen Meijer Spittelhof Housing Estate Spittelhofstrasse Biel-Benken This project near Basel consists of two rows of terraced housing, with gardens on the south side A building with rental units, at the upper edge of the central green courtyard, contains five ground-floor flats for elderly people and ten apartments of different sizes on the two upper floors These all have separate access stairs and entrances from the canopied forecourt on the east side The floor plans of all three buildings were designed to provide light-filled living rooms and bedrooms lined up 'porch-like' along the façades photo: Jeroen Meijer Public access unknown! 1996 Basellandschaftliche Beamtenversicherungskasse jpmm http://wwwmimoaeu/users/ray/guides/zumthor/ 14
photo: goa photo: goa Serpentine Gallery Pavilion 2011 Kensington Gardens W2 3XA London United Kingdom http://wwwserpentinegalleryorg/2011/04/serpentine_galler y_pavillion_2011_zumthorhtml The concept for this year's Pavilion is the hortus conclusus, a contemplative room, a garden within a garden One enters the building from the lawn and begins the transition into the central garden, a place abstracted from the world of noise and traffic and the smells of London - an interior space within which to sit, to walk, to observe the flowers With this Pavilion, as with previous structures such as the famous Thermal Baths at Vals,, or the Bruder Klaus Chapel in Mechernich, Germany, Zumthor has emphasised the sensory and spiritual aspects of the architectural experience, from the precise yet simple composition and 'presence' of the materials, to the handling of scale and the effect of light At the heart of 's practice is a refined selection of materials used to create contemplative spaces that evoke the spiritual dimension of our physical environment photo: goa Floor area/size 7-2011 400 m² Structural engineer Arup Serpentine Gallery goa 10:00-18:00 h Metro : South Kensington / Lancaster Gate / Hyde Park Corner http://wwwmimoaeu/users/ray/guides/zumthor/ 15
photo: Cesar San Milan photo: Juan Rodriguez COACAN Aguayos 5 39003 Santander Spain The Ricardo Lorenzo space has marked the starting point to the rehabilitation of the whole neighbourhood in the centre of Santander Zumthor counters how he, in the beginning of a project, meets again and again with the old and almost forgotten memories of determined architectural situations and ask what those situations mean for him and how he can use them in his architecture With this spirit the architects executed the rehabilitation of the old winery in Aguayos street where the enlargement of the architecture school of Cantabria is projected - without forgetting that the correct and sensorial use of materials, which seems deeply rooted in ancestral knowledge of the people, can help us to achieve our objective Providing the conditions that make it suitable to develop the daily work of the school and taking care of the values that remain in the space; transparency, versatility and economy photo: Cesar San Milan 2006, Landscape architect Capilla Vallejo Arquitectos mmurianac COACAN http://wwwmimoaeu/users/ray/guides/zumthor/ 16