Paracelsus Bad & Kurhaus, Salzburg Health Facility, Spa Building, Images, Contemporary Architecture Design
Paracelsus Bad & Kurhaus in Salzburg, Austria
Public Swimming Pool Exterior and Interior Development in Austria – design Berger+Parkkinen
16 Jan 2020
Paracelsus Bad & Kurhaus
Design: Berger+Parkkinen
Location: Auerspergstraße 2, Salzburg, Austria

The new public bath designed by Berger+Parkkinen Associated Architects highlights Salzburg?s landmarks and mountains, and represents a visionary architectural project in the city?s historical center. ?The building?s outstanding impact is a result of the dialogue between the new spaces and existing surroundings ? the baroque gardens known as Mirabellgarten, the old town and the surrounding mountains. The indoor swimming pool is conceived as an expansion of the park on the third floor,? states architect Alfred Berger.
In terms of urban design, the new Paracelsus Bad & Kurhaus forms a joint between the late 19th century block structures of Auerspergstraße, the open development along Schwarzstraße, the landscape of the Kurgarten and the Mirabellgarten. The geometry of the building is swivelled towards the park, making a reference to the geometry of the vanished fortification-walls of the baroque period.
Swimming & the City

The “Paracelsus Bad & Kurhaus” was conceived as a three-dimensional landscape with the building?s main elements forming a clearly legible vertical layering...