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Transparency, light and color turn Saxony's Albert Bad thermal spa into a German jewel

Part of a Laminated Glass News series on Sports and Leisure facilities

The 1999 DuPont Benedictus judges praised the Albert Bad's "sense of humor" and its "playful, colorful use of fresh daylight".

Light and color add to tranquility of German spa

Transparency, light and color turn the new central bathing hall of one of Germany's oldest thermal spas – Saxony's Albert Bad, honored by the 1999 DuPont Benedictus Awards – into a jewel of the town's spa facilities, thanks to state-of-the-art building technologies incorporating laminated glass. A central courtyard has been opened up by the introduction of transparent, laminated glass walls giving gracious views of the sky and the wooded hills of the surrounding countryside.

The facades and roof of the spa's central bathing hall are all of laminated glass. Architects Behnisch and Partner of Stuttgart, Germany introduced distinctive and colorful screen printing on a series of glass louvres which can be closed to reduce transparency, at the same time effecting solar control and preventing glare.