His buildings incorporate his knowledge of materials into modernist construction and detailing, while they explore the tactile and sensory qualities of spaces and other materials, maintaining a minimalistic feel. One of the architects who incorporated and realized phenomenology in his work is Peter Zumthor. This made me discover some of the rules of good architecture. Luckily, he’s sometimes contradictory in his writing and not always does what he says. So I mainly based my work on his writing. That was an issue because finding proper critics helps with analysing. All the critics about the building I found were very good-natured and meaningless. I saw what results he reached with following a few very simple rules.
And not just this, I found out how he structures his design process. Surprisingly, I really found a couple of clear rules, I can actually implement in my future work.
I’m searching for the key information that makes the building a success. I like the building, I like the work of the architect, but what is it exactly that makes it good? In my dissertation I’m analysing it and compare it with what Peter Zumthor wrote about it and about architecture. Proximity and distance.What can I as a student learn from the Therme Vals? That was my initial question I based my dissertation on. The interplay between the two and the boundaries created The feeling in relation to the human bodies comfort level The shape peculiar to each room and the surfaces of the materials they contain shape the acoustics and therefore atmosphere The relationships between the materials and the architecture/inhabitants and the surroundings Materiality, the make up of the architecture – Architecture as a Human Environment I outline his 9 points of consideration for ambience: ‘Beauty is in the eye of the beholder’ was a quote from the book that reinforces my premise that the ambience is only appropriate as far as the specific occupant. I have just read Peter Zumthors book ‘Atmospheres’ that give some interesting insights into what he thinks determine the make up of a successfully appropriate atmosphere.
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