Location Lindau, Germany Client / Investor Competition and family pool: Bäderbetriebe Lindau Spa and sauna: Therme Lindau GmbH Architects 4a Architekten GmbH DE – 70376 Stuttgart www.4a-architekten.de Author 4a Architekten GmbH Photographer David Matthiessen Official opening May 2021
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NATURAL SPECTACLE ON LAKE CONSTANCE SPA IN LINDAU Carefully designed to blend in with its natural surroundings, Therme Lindau (Lindau spa) is situated directly on the shores of Lake Constance, gently bedded in the lakeside landscape with its old trees. The competition and family facility with its thermal baths, sauna area and restaurant has a neat and calm design from the outside. Inside, a variety of room scenarios open up, which can be explored as a landscape, much like the surrounding countryside. With its mature trees, Therme Lindau’s lakeside location is considered particularly sensitive in terms of the landscape. The elongated building has therefore been formally aligned with the edge of the shore and gently plant-
ed in the landscape like a stratified rock between the Eichwald forest and Lake Constance. Projections and recesses structure the building and establish distinctive links with the outer space. sb 6/2021