PETER ZUMTHOR THERME VALS Ralph Rucci architects are contending to create

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PETER ZUMTHOR THERME VALS Ralph Rucci architects are contending to createThe 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