PETER ZUMTHOR THERME VALS Matthew Hall a research project or a

a research project or a more conventional commission

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strategic or experimental reflection that allows to stimulate innovation and open up new spaces of creation

thanks to the data collected and the sensitive analysis of the territory

comme la façon dont ils réinventent un monde où les activités humaines et le statut des objets évoluent sans cesse

PETER ZUMTHOR THERME VALS Matthew Hall a research project or aThe beginning was easy. Going back in time, bathing as one might have a thousand years ago, creating a building, a structure set into the slope with an architectural attitude and aura older than anything already built around it, inventing a building that could somehow always have been there, a building that relates to the topography and geology of the location, that responds to the stone masses of Vals Valley, pressed, faulted, folded and sometimes