Bathing facility on Tineretului lake

Sovata, Romania

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Bathing facility on Tineretului lake

Sovata, Romania

Firm

Vallum

Type

Hospitality + Sport › Sports Center
Landscape + Planning › Waterway/Wetland

YEAR

2012

SIZE

10,000 sqft - 25,000 sqft

Photos

Antal Huba, Szabó Zsolt (15)

The bathing-place in Sovata was realised as a vast part of a touristical groundwork developement, solutioning major issues regarding to limitations between the sweet water and alluvia flows of the heliotherm lake Urs and decreasing the high number of tourist. Among the lake Urs also existed the lake Tineretului until the '90s which has been taken over all the meteorite-water and alluvia, but lately annuled. The partial recreation of the lake and the creation of the new bathing-place for approximately 500 guests, will eliminate the disturbance of the heliothermia in lake Urs.
The challenge in this project lies in searching for adequate architectural answers when its about an intervention on an almoust untouched landscape. The basis of this architecturale composition consists in interpreting a few rules of this enviroment.
The interpretation of certain natural enviroment rules which, from the point of view of urban interventions rather look like “non -regulations” is the bottom line of the architectural composition. Here are some of those, all rather ordinary but vital: the lack of straight angles, parallel lines, large horizontal surfaces, then the superposition and mixture of various layers and volumes in a natural and organic way. Accidental elements and major features are rare in the natural enviroment, everything goes to balance.
While designing building in a natural enviroment, we try , as much as possible, to follow its rules. Cartesian elements come up whenever asked for by functional requirements, or from the need of a rational control of the space and structure.
The surrounding natural environment allowed us to create this tectonic shape adopted to the site.
Tourists arrive from the valley and they meet a sign and transition space to the bathing area placed on the dam(barrage). The dinamics of the roof, the tectonic shape of the building, the radial composition and the regularity of the veneering all give an image on the whole.
The structure has been realized on wooden piles, and structural wooden beams.

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Bathing facility on Tineretului lake

Sovata, Romania

Bathing facility on Tineretului lake

Sovata, Romania

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