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Open Air Pool Eybesfeld by Pichler & Traupmann Architekten
Vienna architects Pichler & Traupmann Architekten have completed an open-air swimming pool in the park of a 17th-century castle in Jöss, Austria.
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The project, called Open Air Pool Eybesfeld, incorporates a partially-underground shower area with glass-panelled shelving.
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An undulating concrete walkway covered in polyurethane swoops down over the shower room and provides gradual entry to the water.
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The pool measures 15.25 by 6.75 metres.
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Photos are by Paul Ott.
Here's some information from Pichler & Traupmann Architekten:
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Open Air Swimming Pool Eybesfeld
The original plan for Eybesfeld Castle was to provide a new base and an integration into the landscape by a surrounding loop in exposed concrete.
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This loop should comprise living, secondary functions as well as an indoor swimming pool.
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This project was split up later on in two single projects: a living landscape on the ground floor of the castle and a pool area located outside of the former castle wall near the corner tower in the park: a spread out blanket in polyester.
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Pool, entry- and sunbathing areas, playground, seat ramp and sun deck are interpreted as zones of one single body lying in the lawn, coated homogeneously with polyester or polyurethane respectively.
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Below ground level where this figure folds up from the lawn emerge changing cubicles and a shower room arranged as a mere glass structure underneath the cantilevering concrete structure.
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The surfaces of the pool entry and the seat ramp have an undulating shape in such a way as to achieve anatomically formed seat and lying hollows.
Project Name: Open Air Pool Eybesfeld, Jöss/Lebring, Austria
Use: Swimming pool (15.25 x 6.75 m)
Client: Christine and Bertrand Conrad-Eybesfeld
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Project Team PxT:
Sandra Riess
Wolfgang Windt
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Structural Planning:
Manfred Petschnigg, Graz
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Landscape Planning:
West 8, Rotterdam
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Mechanical/Pool Planning:
PKG Graz
Light Design:
Klaus Pokorny, Vienna
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Site Supervision:
Arch. Gerhard Kordon, Graz
Josef Fritz, Graz
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Start of Planning: 2003
Start of Construction: 2005
Completion: 2009