Tamina Thermal Baths for Grand Resort by Smolenicky and Partners
The architects at the Zurich based Smolenicky & Partners, designed the Tamina Thermal Baths for the Grand Resort in Bad Ragaz, Switzerland. Description of the Tamina Thermal Baths project by Joseph Smolenicky:
COMPETITION
The second part of the competition involved designing the project’s two major new constructions – the hotel and the thermal baths. The architectural office Smolenicky & Partner won the project for the Tamina thermal baths, Hilmer & Sattler and Albrecht Architects the project for the new hotel.
LANDSCAPE SITUATION
The town-planning character of the resort is dominated by large representative buildings set in an expansive park landscape. In the new project the thermal baths were deliberately located on the cul-de-sac accessing the resort’s public facilities, such as the new conference centre in the renovated spa spring hall, the casino and the golf club house. FORM AND EXTERIOR SPACE
The predominant landscaped, park-like atmosphere remains intact despite the compact manner of building. CRITERIA OF THE BUILDING
The Tamina thermal baths is explicitly conceived as a part of the grand-hotel culture. Simultaneously the thermal baths are intended to relativize the almost “urban” stonework character of the spa spring hall. This strategy of using an explicit resort architecture is underscored in the building’s formally fanciful oval windows. INTERIOR SPACE AS A “FOREST”
The exterior spaces are similarly created by “felling” supports on the periphery of the building volume.
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