A canyon—a distorted surface that bends around a climber—creates seemingly interior spaces that still remain exterior. The notion of “in” and “out” is replaced with that of “through”. Two landscapes arranged in a roof and floor composition encourage park-like access for people from all economic groups. A dual entrance setup allows users to fluidly navigate over, under, and through the space.
The roof level houses the recreation, kid’s, lap, and dive pools while the ground level the supporting programs, including concert areas, dining areas, showers, and saunas. Free membership for local residents paired with a public park-like design to encourage tourism allows the interaction between high and low income users. In the context of the pool, the materialistic descriptor “rich” and “poor” fades with the shedding of clothes. Pools are held on the roof level by structural fabrics draped over a steel girder grid system, so that water and “container” can mold each other’s shape. Movements in the water and noise from below oscillate the membrane, and the pool becomes the skin that communicates between levels, thereby breaking the rigidity of the barrier that normally separates the levels and programs within a building.
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