The Wayfarer
Precedence
Plan and Section of Cereberlitas
Bird eye view of Cereberlitas Hammam copyright Aydinsert
The hot room (sicaklik) is a steam room which has an octagonal, hexagonal or rectangular shaped stone or marble slab (tummy stone) in the center of the room. It has basins (kurne) with taps around the walls used for washing. The room is usually dome shaped with small glass holes (elephant eyes) in the domes to allow natural light in and a water channel to carry off excess water.
Plan and Section of Cereberlitas
Plan view of the Therme vals
Circulation space
Grass roof top
Plan view of the Therme vals
​Therme vals

Architect – Peter Zumthor, with Marc Loeliger, Thomas Durisch and Rainer weitschies
Location – Graubunden Canton, switzerland
Project completion – 1996

​The Therme vals is a hotel and spa built using the locally quarried material, Valser Quarzite which is exclusive to Vals in Switzerland. The valser quarzite stones, the natural environment of the Alps and the man made design create a sensory spatial environment for the bathers. ​
Cemberlitas Hammam

Architect – Mimar Sinan
Location – Instabul Turkey
Project completion – 1586
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The Cemberlitas hammam is a famous Ottoman double bathhouse i.e. two identical bathhouses side by side each accommodating a gender. The design has four zinc cladded domes which rest on masonry columns. The cold room is a three storey high space with timber and glass changing rooms. The hot and warm spaces are about 5m high and the hot chambers have eight ante chambers which contain the ‘kurnes’ (wash basins). The glass windows which puncture the domes of the chambers are known as ‘elephant eyes’. The main interior facade throughout the building is white and grey marble tiles. (Kanetaki, 2009).