Swiss Sound Box Peter Zumthor

The Swiss Sound Box, a temporary space designed by Peter Zumthor for the World Expo in Hannover Germany in 2000, is an experiment in the complex emotional spaces that we as architects can create using simple elements. Zumthor's design is a notice to the rest of the architectural world, an understanding that architecture serves the world, and the people within that world, and so it should be sympathetic to those forces. That we as a discipline should be promoting a more careful approach to design, one which does not simply live with the constraints provided to us and the elements around us, but responds to and utilizes those elements to create resonant connections between the inhabitant, the architecture, and the world around it.