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Thermal Baths in Bad Staffelstein
German Swimming Pool Building – design by Krieger Architects Engineers
16 Dec 2016
Thermal Baths
Design: Krieger Architects Engineers
Location: Bad Staffelstein, Germany
Thermal Baths in Bad Staffelstein With a New Highlight Made of Light Transmitting Concrete

The public swimming pool ?Obermaintherme? in the Bavarian city Bad Staffelstein is Bavaria?s hottest and strongest saltwater emerging from 1600 m deep drilled spring. More than 1.600 sqm water surface and more than 15.000 sqm sauna are inviting to relaxing and recovering.

Within a large renovation process of some areas in the main bath hall, the inside pool has been renewed, too. A new highlight has been designed with a cave in the shape of a salt crystal made with LUCEM translucent concrete, allowing the new shell to light in different colours along with the water. This ambient lighting concept, along with a special sound system in the Cave integrated with the massage jet nozzles in the water, creates a wellness feeling for everybody inside this installation. The light shines through the surface of the translucent concrete with more than 2 million fiber optics.
The former design of the interior pool included a cave made of natural stone and covered with artificial palms. This design was very popular over decades, therefore, the new design had to be a very special and an impressive one. As part of th...