05MAY 2016
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Any type of intervention in such a virgin land raises first of all ethical rather than formal issues: for this reason the proposal aims at placing a new sign in the Portuguese granite landscape by offering an immersive experience to the visitor, while keeping unchanged the landscape’s natural balance.
Site Lake Baths - proposal for a health spa complex - is conceived as a new layer overlapping the millennial stratifications: it merges with the landscape adding another step to the site’s evolutionary process.
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The bathhouse is organised around a path zigzagging through the landscape: following the contour lines of Serra da Estrela, the path reaches Lake Comprida floating over its water surface.
© From the path, visitors can access all the distinctive spaces of the health spa.
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Creating a path that connects to main pedestrian routes through Serra da Estrela, the health spa complex acts as a link between the mountains and the lake.
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Site Lake Baths / Giuseppe Vultaggio
Posted in Architecture - Architecture by Giuseppe Vultaggio
Lake Comprida, surrounded by the granite peaks of the highest Portuguese mountain range, Serra da Estrela, is a glacier basin with broad fields of erratics: an impressive mountainous landscape, carved by natural agents.![](timthumb.php?w=600&h=420&src=./media/66.1306.1462434397.image 01 Form.jpg)
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