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Natural elements are very common in the application of architecture. To say that the architect who is the easiest to use them has to remind people of him:

"Architect's Architect" Peter Zumthor

Unlike the star architects often seen in the media, Zumto is more like a hermit, living and working in a mountain village in Switzerland.

Zumto's studio is located in the town of Haldenstein in the Swiss Alps, 0/00km away from Zurich/Kloc-and surrounded by rocks in Calanda Berg. He and more than 20 employees are discussing their recent work on this natural pasture away from the noise.

No matter how turbulent the flood of information from the outside world is, he still condenses his thoughts on architecture into poetic works like the most traditional craftsman.

German Klaus Brothers Field Church 2007

Zumto has lived in Halden since 1979 and set up his own studio. Until now, he has never considered moving to the city to expand his career.

After years of in-depth thinking, he learned a lot about materials, climate, site selection and other aspects from these ancient buildings, and had a very far-reaching understanding of these ancient buildings or local buildings.

Swiss Vals Hot Springs 1996

Zumto's latest work is the allmanjuvet Zinc Mine Museum in allmanjuvet Valley, Norway.

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From 1882 to 1899, the valley is a zinc-iron ore gathering area. Although it only has a short mining history of 18 due to the influence of the zinc mine market, it records a short but vivid development history and provides more convenient transportation and convenient service facilities for this area.

Soda geographical environment

The miners' original mining route has also become one of the 10 scenic spots of Norway's national tourist route because of its characteristic landscape and rich cultural history.

Mines with poor mining conditions in those years

Tourism Norway hopes to evoke people's forgotten memories of zinc mines through design and truly feel that hard history, so it found Zumto.

This time, Zumto's design still maintains its original style, which is primitive, simple and uncompromising. He only chose a small rest stop on the tourist route of 1800 km for design.

It does not carry out general volume design, but follows the architectural characteristics of the mining area and breaks down its functions into four different parts.

On the winding mountain road, the form of three boxes and one space was formed, including a museum, a cafe, a service center and a later land.

The building structure is very simple, with black rectangular wooden house, wooden support and corrugated zinc roof.

All the buildings are prefabricated and then assembled in Allmannajuvet. The outdoor support system is composed of plywood soaked with anticorrosive oil, and the outdoor building wall is composed of plywood with a thickness of 18 cm.

Plans and profiles of four buildings, in which the service center is fixed on rock walls and cliffs. From a distance, it looks like the fortifications of a minority village in China.

Inside the service center, the main function is the bathroom. Outside the building, there is a complete parking lot.

Masonry and natural stone around the parking lot are transported from Yongda to Saiyuda. The city wall is firmly fixed on the riverbed of three meters, and the highest point is 18 meters from the ground.

On the steep hillside on the other side, Zumto did not adopt the traditional fixed mode, but used grid-like wooden strips to break into rocks and supported cafes and museums through wooden frames.

The detailed handover of wooden structure columns and steel feet reflects Zumto's pursuit of minimalism and technology.

The interior design of cafes and museums follows the overall minimalist style. The lights in the dining room are also specially designed and made like miner's lamps.

Walking in the museum, there is a feeling of digging into the mine. All kinds of mining tools used at that time came into view in the dim light.

Zumto said in an interview:

"The working conditions here must be terrible. You can't stand up straight in the tunnel, and you have to go a long way in the hot mine in Leng Xia in winter. We get the concept of creation from here, that is, everything should be moderate and temperate. Not poor, but humble. "

There is no doubt that this is the soul that Zumto injected into the zinc mine museum.

Today, this route has become one of Norway's national tourist routes, with magnificent scenery, novel architecture and inspiring art along the way.

This is the second time Zumto has designed architecture for Norway's national tourist route.

In 20 1 1 year, he cooperated with Louise Bourgeois, a French-American artist, in the memorial to the victims of witch trials.

This building is located in Waldtown, Norway? ) In memory of/kloc-the victims who were suspected to be witches and were burned at the stake in the 7th century.

The main building designed by Zumto is a wooden frame memorial corridor with a length of 125m. Among them, 9 1 window symbolizes 9 1 executed wizard.

The use of wood is not uncommon in Zumto's works. He was an apprentice carpenter in the 1950 s, which is closely related to his father being a carpenter specializing in making furniture.

Under the extremely simple and even humble appearance, what is hidden is his profound interpretation of culture and history. In 2009, Zumto won the Pritzker Architecture Award, and the jury gave this evaluation:

"His building has a magnificent posture, which has repeatedly shown us that modesty in handling and boldness in overall effect are not contradictory. Humility is with strength. "

For architecture, he himself understood it this way:

"I don't think architecture is a kind of information or symbol. It is first and foremost the container and background of life, sensitively accommodating the rhythm of footsteps on the floor, accommodating the concentration of work, and accommodating the silence of sleep. "

It should be the most incisive thing Zumto has done to let the building transcend the secular and accommodate the silence of sleep.