#zumthor house

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Zumthor House / Peter Zumthor / Haldenstein, Switzerland / 2005

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Peter Zumthor, House in Swiss Alps, 2012.

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Houses No: 482 Peter Zumthor House and Studio tresbongout 

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The Dong Fureng House Museum in #Ningbo, China by WIT Design & Research Read more: Link in bio! Photography: Tantan Lei, TOPIA and One Thousand Degree Image The more sensitively-restored a building, the more authentically we may witness the past lives of those who occupied it. -Peter Zumthor, "Thinking Architecture" July 30, 2004 - Dongsheng Chen waited anxiously to board his plane. On behalf of himself and his classmates, he was anxious to visit Mr. Dong Fureng, who was seriously ill in the United States. In August 2021, Wuhan University received the largest donation in its history: 1 billion yuan, from alumni Dongsheng Chen of Taikang Insurance Group. In the same year, WIT Design & Research completed a most notable project: the restoration of the former residence of Dong Fureng into a memorial museum, commissioned by the Dong Fureng Foundation, with Dongsheng Chen is the main promoter of this project. Chen was giving back to his alma mater, and expressing gratitude to his teacher. For us, the general public, the gesture demonstrates the impact economists and entrepreneurs can make on our society… #china #museum #архитектура www.amazingarchitecture.com ✔ A collection of the best contemporary architecture to inspire you. #design #architecture #amazingarchitecture #architect #arquitectura #luxury #realestate #life #cute #architettura #interiordesign #photooftheday #love #travel #construction #furniture #instagood #fashion #beautiful #archilovers #home #house ‎#amazing #picoftheday #architecturephotography ‎#معماری (at Ningbo (宁波)) https://www.instagram.com/p/CmUAfVJr-9H/?igshid=NGJjMDIxMWI=

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Therme Vals

The Therme Vals is a bathhouse/hotel in Graubünden canton in Switzerland designed by Swedish designer Peter Zumthor. The structure is quite dark but has these small thin gaps through roofs and walls that create a beautiful strip of light. Zumthor talks about the love affair between stone and water, how they compliment each other and how they play with the light. 

Video attached is him speaking about this bath house. 

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JzmVfSvKdRk&ab_channel=VernissageTV

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Hans Baumgartner - student housing, claususstrasse, 1963, zurich

From Atmospheres - P. Zumthor (book)

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Homes for Senior Citizens, Peter Zumthor, 1993, Masden Switzerland.

Housing for seniors who can still take care of themselves, built beside an existing facility with nursing and care services.

We can take notes for collective living for people of all ages. Look at the width given to that shared corridor. The residents are free to furnish their section of the hallway as they wish, and it's evident they take advantage. They look over this space from the kitchen window. Nice idea, allowing light and view but not compromising the privacy of more used rooms.

The building does not express its modularity from the outside, it reads more like the rhythm of a facade. Then on the interior, each unit looks like a cell that could be moved, because the interior wall does not connect with the roof directly, and has a reveal between.

The way the building seems to sink below grade on the entrance side gives it a relaxed and casual feel - perfect for this rural/suburban residential use. Classic Zumthor with simple details and each element reading as its own solid object, sliding into one or two others.

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Peter Zumthor in Conversation with Bijoy Ramachandran

Swiss Architect Peter Zumthor in Bengaluru in February 2024 It was a full house at the J. N. Tata Auditorium as more than 750 #architects, architecture students and #architecture enthusiasts from and outside the city gathered to hear the distinguished Swiss architect and Pritzker Prize winner Peter Zumthor in conversation with Bengaluru-based architect Bijoy Ramachandran. Zumthor spoke extensively of his early influences, his struggles, his thought process while approaching projects and of his faith in his intuition. He also considered questions from the audience about the play of light and texture in some of his most famous structures including the Kunsthaus Bregenz in Austria and the Feldkapelle and Kolumba in Germany. This event was part of celebrations of 75 years of Indo-Swiss friendship. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5eB0dB1K2vY (Source of the original content)

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THERMALLY ACTIVE SURFACES……a great article by KIEL MOE; you will find a description of the Kunsthaus Bregenz ……

“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 color and gives an intimation of its inner life according to the angle of vision, the daylight and the weather.”

“While these visual effects of the building are familiar, the thermally active surface system that enables the scheme’s minimalism is less documented. The visual appearance and material presence of the building is best understood as the manifestation of novel immaterial strategies and systems. The Kunsthaus’s architecture emerged from simple yet profound physiological understanding of the body as the context. Like the human body, the Kunsthaus is a hydronic heat and cool system with a decoupled fresh air ventilation system. The concrete surfaces in the Kunsthaus are hydronic, thermally active surfaces that temper the thermal comfort of bodies in the space through radiant heat transfer as opposed to the minimal air system in the building. While this system may initially seem simple, if not mundane, it engenders the austere appearance and low energy consumption of the building.”

KIEL MOE - THERMALLY ACTIVE SURFACES IN ARCHITECTURE

Departing from the simple question Why do we heat and cool buildings with air?, this book focuses on the technique of thermally active surfaces. This technique uses water in building surfaces to heat and cool bodies – a method that is at once more efficient, comfortable, and healthy. This technique thus imbues the fabric of the building with a more poignant role: its structure is also its primary heating and cooling system. In doing so, this approach triggers a cascading set of possibilities for how well buildings are built, how well they perform, and how long they will last: pointing the way toward multiple forms of sustainability.

Thermally Active Surface Case Studies:

- Kunsthaus Bregenz / Peter Zumthor - Zollverein School of Management and Design / SANAA - Südwestmetall Regional Headquarters / Dominik Dreiner Architekt - Linked Hybrid / Steven Holl Architects - Charles Hostler Student Recreation Center / VJAA - Housing for Kripalu Center for Yoga and Health / Peter Rose and Partners - The Fred Kaiser Building, University of British Columbia  / architectsAlliance - Terrence Donnelly Centre for Cellular and Biomolecular Research / architectsAlliance, Behnisch Architekten - Klarchek Information Commons, Loyola University / Solomon Cordwell Buenz - The Graham Resource Center, Crown Hall, Illinois Institute of Technology / Tom Brock Architect, P.C.

Kiel Moe’s book is in our library at HTML:  TA418.52 .M64 2010. 

article by Kiel Moe:  https://www.brikbase.org/sites/default/files/aiab079894.pdf

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Space and Environment in Architecture

Space and environment are some of the most important things architects must consider.  It is necessary to think about the architectural space surrounding us, and also discover the messages or soul of the architecture itself.  Just as we understand space and architecture, we must understand the importance of the environment surrounding us.  By taking these factors into consideration, we might help build a better and healthier environment.

          Architecture is not just about space-making or designing a building or a house, but also about shaping meaningful spaces or structures that make us connect with a certain surrounding.  A great example for this is the Thermal Vals, by architect Peter Zumthor.  These thermal baths are located in Switzerland, and the way they were constructed makes the structure connect with nature.  Architecture is not just about addition, but also about subtraction, so for this structure, the architect decided to excavate and build these thermal baths half buried into the hillside.  Peter Zumthor believes that a good building must have a soul.  Another example for this is the Centre Georges Pompidou located in France.  This building was designed by Renzo Piano and Richard Rogers, and they came up with a design that could maximize the interior space without interruptions.  In order to do that, they designed a building in which its infrastructure or skeleton is exposed.  This helps them maximize the space inside and it’s a very useful and wise way to economize space and also show everyone that architecture doesn’t have to be beautiful in order to be functional.

          The environment is something everyone must protect and take into consideration, no matter the job they have.  Architects must be very aware of the environment and the ways in which to protect it as they decide on where and how to design a building.  “Wind, rain and sun are enemies to some architects’ minds”, while Ken Yeang, a Malaysian architect and ecologist, thought the opposite and believed that the urban environment itself could become a living breathing organism.  He thought that a building should not only benefit humans, but also plants and animals. He designed a building that would have less electrical and air conditioning consumption.  For example, the escalators in the building stop automatically if there’s no one on them and start again when someone approaches them.  That way, they save a lot of energy.  Also, to reduce the artificial lighting, he designed big windows which let natural light into the offices in the building, and when the sun is too direct, automatic blinds come down, so the environment can be comfortable for the people throughout the day.  This building also has a ventilation shaft in between.  It has a non-air-conditioned space which increases the surface area of the building and also helps to cool it down.  This helps to reduce the energy required for air conditioning the building.  There are also fourteen gardens spread out within the building, which helps maintain nature.  It's important architects consider green buildings as the future, in that way, we would have less environmental problems.  They need to understand that every building is connected to nature and climate, and that they have to complement or harmonize with each other in order to create a sustainable and better environment.

          Every building has a soul, and that soul has to connect with nature as much as with humans. Shaping a building and designing spaces for it has a lot of importance when giving it a meaning and trying to find its soul.  Conserving and maintaining the environment is important.  We can protect nature by designing a building that helps reduce the consumption of electricity and energy, or a green building that complements nature.  These are some of the perfect ways to protect the environment and make every architecture complement humans and nature.

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Zumthor Vacation House - Leis, Switzerland

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Zumthor Vacation House - Leis, Switzerland

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Peter Zumthor, Arquitecto (ganador de premio pritzker 2009)

Peter Zumthor nació en 1943 en Basilea, Suiza. Su padre ebanista, Oscar Zumthor, trasladó los conocimientos sobre el tratamiento de la madera a si hijo quien se formó en el oficio desde 1958 a 1962. Entre 1963-67 estudió en la Escuela de Artes Vorkurs y Fachklasse, perfeccionando sus estudios en el Pratt Institute de New York.

Al terminar sus estudios en la Escuela de Arte, fue contratado por el cantón suizo Canton of Graubünden en el departamento para la Preservación de Monumentos. Estableció su propio estudio en 1979 en Haldenstein, Suiza. Desde 1996 ha sido profesor en la Academia de Arquitectura de la Universitá della Svizzera Italiana, Mendrisio. También ha sido profesor visitante en la Universidad del Instituto de Arquitectura del Sur de California y SCI -ARC en Los Ángeles en 1988, en la Technische Universität de Munich en 1989, y en la Graduate School of Design de la Universidad de Harvard en 1999.

Entre los numerosos premiso que ha recibido se incluyen el Praemium Imperiale de la Asociación de Arte de Japón en 2008, ese mismo año la Academia Americana de Artes y Letras le otorgó el Premio W. Brunner Memorial de Arnold en Arquitectura. También recibió el Premio de Arquitectura Carlsberg de Dinamarca en 1998, y el Premio Mies van der Rohe de Arquitectura Europea en 1999.

Sus obras más representativas:

Escuela elemental Churwalden (1983), Casa Räth, Haldenstein (1983), Edificio para albergar restos arqueológicos romanos en Coira (1986), Estudio Zumthor,Haldenstein (1986), Capilla de San Benito (1989), Museo de Arte de Coira (1990), Residencia para la tercera edad en Masans (1993), Casa Gugalun (1994), Spittelhof housing, Biel-Benken (1996), Termas de Vals(1996), Museo de Arte de Bregenz(1997), Pabellón de Suiza para la Exposición 2000 (1997-2000), Villa en Küsnacht (1997), Kolumba, Museo de arte de la Archidiócesis de Colonia (1997-2000), Cloud Rock Wilderness Lodge Moab(1999), Bruder Klaus Kapelle(2007).

https://es.wikiarquitectura.com/arquitecto/zumthor-peter/

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Vals

The light was dim and cave-like as we entered the Thermal Baths at Vals in Switzerland. We navigated the shadowed stone corridors and bathing chambers less with our eyes than with our skin, our ears, and even our tongues. The air tasted salty. Entering the baths was like reentering childhood when we experienced the world with all our senses. That may be because the architect of Vals, Peter Zumthor, credits his childhood as the root of his architecture.  

Zumthor fondly remembers the heavy, oak door to his aunt’s house with its spoon-shaped handle: “The door handle still seems to me like a special sign of entry into a world of different moods and smells.” He continues: “Memories like these are the deepest architectural experience I know.”

After trying the hot and cold baths, we floated in the great outdoor heated pool at dusk. It was snowing. The air temperature was 18°F. The water was 98°F. "To truly know warmth,” Herman Melville wrote, “some part of you must be cold.”

Crows flew overhead as cow bells tinkled in the darkened mountains. The air smelled of balsam, the water tasted of stone, and our breath formed clouds before our eyes.

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Zumthor - Holl - Pawson

TERMAS VALS-SUIZA

El trabajo de Zumthor se basa en la creación de atmosferas en donde las sensaciones, son lo más importante. A mi parecer es uno de los mejores arquitectos de este siglo y el siguiente. El trabajo que hace a partir de como el conjunto de un todo en el contexto puede hacer un espacio exitoso.

Stephen Holl EX OF IN A HOUSE-HUDSON VALLEY

El trabajo de Holl especialmente en esta casa, trabaja en varias capas, en una conceptual, atmosférica y contextual, lo cual la convierte en una pieza completa, que es más que arq, es lugar de contemplación y transportación, un lindo intermedio entre Zumthor e Ilse Crawford, la diferencia con Zumthor es que su espacio lo vuelve más hogareño, con la posibilidad de vivir los espacios de forma casera. A pesar de que Zumthor tiene proyectos parecidos se sienten menos cómodos y hogareños., a mi parecer la materialidad en este proyecto en especifico, no solo va con el contexto si no le da una sensación de calidéz combinada con la luz natural, controlada, algo que en el ejemplo de las termas de Vals o algo por el estilo también se hace pero no se maneja sobre el eje casero

John Pawson HOUSE OF STONE-ITALIA

Definiría el trabajo de Pawson un intermedio o combiancion entre Holl y Zumthor, trabajando sobre la misma línea donde los espacios son un escape atmosférico, son varias capas que se trabajan. La diferencia es que Pawson parece muy parecido todo en general, no tan diferente que Zumthor, si se trabajam casas pero en un sentido más casero en lo macro. Lo cuál no está mal, solo que carece de sensación casera y vivible que deberían tener estos espacios.

El uso de iluminación natural controlada que utilizan estos tres arquitectos, como un método extra para rear espacios distintos, lo cual se me hace interesante e innovador.

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RETIRO SECULAR

Datos principales:

Obra: Retiro Secular.

Arquitecto: Peter Zumthor.

Ubicación: Devon Sur, Reino Unido.

Cronología: 2016.

Breve biografía del autor:

Zumthor, nace en 1943 en Basilea (Suiza), hijo de padre ebanista comienza formarse en ello en 1958 hasta que en 1963, comienza a estudiar en la Escuela Alemana de Arte y Oficios, además de algunos estudios de diseño en el Pratt Institute de Nueva York. Al terminar sus estudios es contratado como consultor por el cantón suizo de Grisones.

En 1979, se asocia con otras 15 personas para formar su propio estudio y en 1996, comienza a trabajar para la Universidad de la Suiza italiana, al mismo tiempo que colabora con diversas universidades.

Descripción de la obra y su contexto cultural:

La obra iniciada en 2014 y finalizada en 2018, se emplaza sobre los restos de una antigua cabaña de 1940, la cual estaba aislada y protegida por una formación de pinos Monterrey, que actualmente alcanzan los 20 metros de altura y estos sirven como protección para la vivienda.

El proyecto fue encargado al arquitecto por la organización Living Architecture, la cual ofrece viviendas diseñadas por arquitectos relevantes de forma vacacional.

En cuanto a la viviendas, se trata de un ejemplo de la arquitectura propia del arquitecto, una serie de volúmenes masivos de hormigón creado a base de capas de encofrado soportan una cubierta de hormigón continuo, potenciando la diferencia entre elementos verticales y horizontales.

El programa de la vivienda se configura a partir de esta idea de soportes. Unos pilares masivos soportan la cubierta en la parte más social de la misma, sirviendo estos como apoyo para el mobiliario, por el contrario la cubierta descansa sobre dos prismas alargados en la zona de las habitaciones.

La separación de la vivienda con el entorno es en esta última parte mucho más destacada, al transmitir la sensación de prisma troquelado. En contraposición, encontramos que en la zona social las diferencias entre interior y exterior se diluyen al emplearse paños de vidrio que tan solo se interrumpen para albergar las carpinterías.

Entre las soluciones empleadas por Zumthor, hay que destacar la del encofrado a capas, empleado en el exterior de la Bruden Klaus Field Chapel en 2008 y la solución de la cubierta apoyada, empleada en la termas de Vals en 1998 y en algún otro proyecto más reciente.

Bibliografía:

Autores varios. 2017. China Material. Arquitectura Viva (210). Página 12.

Autores varios. 2019.A+U (587). Páginas 126 - 133.

Secular Retreat. Living Architecture. Consultado 27 de octubre de 2022: https://www.living-architecture.co.uk/the-houses/a-secular-retreat/overview/

Retiro Secular. Casa en South Devon. ARQA. 2018. Consultado 27 de octubre de 2022: https://arqa.com/arquitectura/retiro-secular-casa-en-south-devon.html

Retiro SECULAR en Devon. CIRCARQ. 2017. Consultado 27 de octubre de 2022: https://circarq.wordpress.com/2017/01/18/retiro-secular-en-devon/

Secular Retreat, una obra maestra en Inglaterra, diseñada por Peter Zumthor. Metalocus 2018. Consultado 27 de octubre de 2022: https://www.metalocus.es/es/noticias/secular-retreat-una-obra-maestra-en-inglaterra-disenada-por-peter-zumthor

ZUMTHOR. Metalocus. Consultado 27 de octubre de 2022: https://www.metalocus.es/es/autor/zumthor