TuWass Recreational Baths

Tuttlingen, Germany

20 Jahre TuWass – und die Idee ist geblieben

Video © 4a Architekten

TuWass Recreational Baths

TuWass Freizeit- und Thermalbad

TuWass Recreational Baths

Swimming Pools

Architects: 4a Architekten

Location: TuWass, Tuttlingen, Germany
Year: 2001
Client: Tuttlinger Bäder GmbH
Architects: 4a Architekten in cooperation with Bremer + Gronych, Wetzlar
Construction period: 10/1998 until 06/2001
Construction costs: approx. 10.5 million euros
Gross floor area: approx. 8100 m²
Gross cubic volume: approx. 40000 m³
Service phases: 1 to 8
Award: Good Buildings in Baden-Württemberg 2002
Photographer/s: Uwe Ditz / Christian Kandzia

New construction of a recreational and thermal baths with sauna,

The shape of the recreational baths is modelled on the pictures of the surrounding landscape: the blue spring basins at the edge of the Swabian Alb and the numerous caves, the steep and towering rock walls of the Danube Valley and the tall trees of the Black Forest. The grey baseplate of the entrance area turns indoors into a "rocky" lake-plate with freely-formed blue pools. Between the pools are trees, encased in glass cylinders which rise through the roof. The large timber roof is suspended above the bathing landscape. Various shades of green, blue, red and orange suggest a canopy of leaves. This reinforces the approach of the pool's design in the landscape: the pool in the green.