There’s long lap pools, and then there’s UMA’s design for Stockholm—a kilometer long infinity pool that serves as tourist attraction, recreational facility, and even infrastructure. The idea is to extend a walkway stretching from the northern part of Söderman to the eastern point out over the motorway that currently takes up most of the waterfront.
Perched on a load bearing structure made of a repetitive steel console structure bolted to the bedrock, the infinity pool would contain water pumped from the Baltic Sea and cleaned in a small treatment plant. The water would be heated with waste heat. According to the designers, you could even swim in parts of it during the spring and fall. In the winter, meanwhile, the temperature would be lowered to the point where the water freezes over, enabling ice skating.
According to the designers, the pool would create the illusion of an unobstructed connection between the waterfront and the adjacent Baltic Sea. Dressing rooms, showers and other facilities would be hidden below the pool so as not to obstruct the view.
“Here it would be possible to create an extraordinairy public space that would increase the attractiveness of the city, both for the inhabitants and the tourism industry,” UMA writes. “It would be a statement for what Stockholm wants to be in the future.”
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Who would swim there? Not me. Seems weird to be swimming next to a street and sidewalk.
You can swim laps in the land of the Laplanders!
in the winter you can speed skate on the edge of a 40 foot drop
On second viewing, clever reduction of water level reveals guard rail.
clever girl
That water'd better be heated, yes. Visiting there at the height of summer, in a place surrounded by beautiful bays and coastlines and a fair amount of sunshine-- I saw one person in the water in 8 days. And I think they fell in.
Infinity edge skating rink. Brilliant.
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