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Timber architecture in Tamina Therme hotel

Bad Ragaz, CH

Swimming pool in a room with white columns and wooden ceiling cladding

The timber architecture of the Tamina Therme soothes body and mind

The Tamina Therme is an opulent, pure timber construction featuring unique architecture. The inside of the facility impresses visitors with a radiant white room structure bathed in light. Vertically arranged oval windows offer an unobstructed view of the redwood trees in the park and the surrounding mountains.

The Therme distinctly sees itself as a part of the grand hotel’s culture. It seeks out its cultural and aesthetic identity in Swiss tradition as well as in grand hotels on the Baltic Sea. For this reason, the architects opted for timber painted snow white, which gives the Therme its holiday architecture reminiscent of a pavilion.

The interior rooms are designed to remind visitors of trees in a figurative sense, which you knock out in the pattern of a forest and in doing so create clearings. Structurally, this building is very much a forest that, instead of trees, consists of supports. There are a total of 115 supports made from the timber of 2,200 local spruce trees. This quantity of wood grows in Switzerland within two and a half hours.

Thanks to the prefabricated timber elements, it was possible to halve the building time to 12 months. We joined the facade elements with the glass elements in our plant, where the elements also received a primer coating and one to two coats of paint. The components were assembled on site and painted again.

Portrait Richard Jussel Project development Blumer Lehmann

Richard Jussel

Project Development | Sales – Industrial Buildings | Timber and Modular Construction | Switzerland

+41 71 388 58 61
richard.jussel@blumer-lehmann.com
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Project details

Client:
HRS Frauenfeld
Architecture:
Smolenicky & Partner
Project type:
Hotels and restaurants, Leisure and sport
Construction type:
Wood element construction
Services:
Timber construction
Construction:
2009
Locality:
Bad Ragaz
Country:
Switzerland

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Tamina Therme – external view of the building

The unique architecture of the timber construction painted completely in white invokes associations of grand hotels found in Switzerland and on the Baltic Sea.

Covered portico of the Tamina Therme in the outside area

High columns or supports can be found throughout the entire building – inside and out.

External view of Tamina Therme at night with illuminated outside pool

The snow-white painted timber gives the architecture a holiday feeling.

Interior view of the Tamina Therme; pool with white columns, illuminated

Also inside the Tamina Therme, the columns dominate as elements, as does the colour white.

Entrance area in the Tamina Therme with reception desk

The reception is in the style of early grand hotels but interpreted in a modern way.

Detailed picture of the columns and ceiling structure in the Tamina Therme

Detailed view of one of a total of 115 supports

External view of the Tamina Therme during the day; view of the surrounding white portico

The oval windows offer an unobstructed view of the park.

External view of the Tamina Therme with portico and facade in white.

Inside, the windows create the effect of oversized window frames.