Thom Mayne's firm Morphosis has envisioned new hotel room concepts for a hotel called ''7132 Hotel'' in Vals, Switzerland, which is adjacent to the Peter Zumthor's Therme Vals spa-and the architect used the same materiality for the new luxury hotel rooms.

Pritzker-winning architect Thom Mayne is only four of the architects-alongside Tadao Ando, Kengo Kuma and Peter Zumthor- contributing designs for the new ''House of Architects'' at the 7132 Hotel in Vals-which is a new luxury retreat located within the deep rise of the Valser valley. 

Given only 20 square meters in an existing hotel, Morphosis renovated a series of guest rooms with a given size and structure involved a re-examination of the definition of ‘luxury.’

''We turned to the reduction and refinement of elements, focusing on scale, color, tactility, unexpected form, and connections to the natural context,'' says Morphosis. 

''Every aspect of the room, including lighting, bed, furniture, and the shower/wash basin, was custom-designed for the space, to elevate the routine aspects of a guests’ stay into an aesthetic experience.''

Mophosis' design is based on two concepts including Stone Rooms and Wood Rooms. The firm presents an immersive experience in the approach to the rooms, which are wrapped in locally-sourced natural materials – differing veins of the Valser stone, varying in color, cut, and texture, or striations of oak from nearby Graubünden forests. 

At the heart of the room is the double-curved, hot-bent glass shower piece designed by Morphosis and fabricated by Cricursa in Barcelona – an abstract sculptural object that stands in glowing contrast to the room’s natural surfaces.

Morphosis renovated four of the 7 new guest suites for 7132 Hotel and each room, looking a glamorous mountainous landscape,  features distintice materiality, texture and tactility with local materials. 

Morphosis was also commissioned to design new entry canopy for the existing 7132 Hotel in Vals, Switzerland, serves to clarify the arrival sequence and provides a formal entry and drop-off area for guests.

''The sweeping canopy reinterprets the local vernacular - simple, white-stucco Swiss modernism of the 1950s - with contemporary forms. An oculus at the center brightens the drop-off area and frames views to the peaks above,'' says Morphosis.

Thom Mayne's second project for Vals include a new hotel design called ''7132 Hotel & Arrival'' -Morphosis won a competition in 2015 and the new hotel will include 107 guest rooms, panoramic views and elegant -mirrored skin-but Mayne's new hotel was criticised by five jury members in the competition and they published a statement distancing  themselves from this appointment. 

Morphosis recently unveiled its proposal for Kolon's new Future Research Park in Seoul, which features folded-volume and parametrically-shaped facade.

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