Architectural Record – August 2019

1    ENTRANCE   

2    UNIVERSAL

CHANGING ROOMS

3    SHOWERS    

4    MAIN SWIMMING

POOL    

5    WADING POOL    

6    SHADE UMBRELLAS

7    STORAGE    

8    VOLLEYBALL AREA

9        REGENERATION

BASINS

10 GRAVEL FILTER BED

11 PUMP/TESTING

ROOM    

12 STAFF AREA

filtration process. The system includes a set of

regeneration basins at one end of the pool

deck, visible to patrons but protected by glass,

and an adjacent bed of crushed granite con­

cealed behind the building’s gabion walls.

Overflow from the pools circulates through

these filtering elements, which contain marsh­

loving plants such as cattails, water lilies, and

rushes—and, in the case of one of the basins,

microscopic marine animals. The plants and

organisms use the contaminants that humans

introduce, like carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and

phosphates, as nutrients and remove them

from the water.

The water is heated, but only to about 74

degrees, and then the sun is allowed to take

over. But if the temperature of the water

should rise above 84 degrees (something that

has yet to happen at the pool, now in its sec­

ond season of operation), the facility would

temporarily close, since that is the tempera­

ture considered conducive to bacteria growth.

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