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Indoor Swimming Pool, Buckinghamshire
Indoor Swimming Pool, Buckinghamshire
Chalfont Saint Giles, United Kingdom
Project Featured on Jul 10, 2017
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Indoor Swimming Pool, Buckinghamshire
Chalfont Saint Giles, United Kingdom
Project Featured on Jul 10, 2017
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STATUS
Built
YEAR
2008
SIZE
25,000 sqft - 100,000 sqft
Paul+O
Architects have completed a dramatic contemporary brick pool house in the
grounds of a Victorian country house in Buckinghamshire. The new 525 sq m
building comprises a gym, playroom and a 15-metre swimming pool and features a
link corridor to the main house.
The new
addition to the estate is unequivocally contemporary in its design but its form
and materiality take inspiration from the existing architecture.
Built of
Belgian red brick with a steep pitched roof of handmade clay tiles, the new
pool house presents itself as a contemporary annex which is sympathetic to the
late Victorian red brick house and yet very much of its own time. The brick is
slimmer than its traditional English red brick and a concealed gutter between
the brick walls and clay tile roof gives the illusion of a continuous skin,
contributing to the building’s bold volumetric form.
Partners
Paulo Marto and Paul Acland, who have completed a number of highly acclaimed
residential projects, refer to the scheme as “playful and picturesque”. At the
corners of the building the robust brick walls give way to 3.8m tall Vitrocsa glass windows that
slide back into the cavity wall, dissolving the boundary of inside and out and
opening up the pool to the garden.
Strategically
placed, the glazed openings relate to the house and the green houses of the
adjacent walled garden and are placed to maximize winter sun and heat retention
and prevent the pool from overheating in the summer. A long slim window at deck
level frames a view of the walled garden from the pool so that swimmers can
also enjoy the landscape.
The roof
has a 30 degree pitch on two sides - which echoes with the steep roof of the
main house - and a 17 degree on the other two, giving rise to an asymmetrical
roofline which adds to the building’s playfulness.
Internally the off-white Sto
rendered walls and the Sto acoustic ceiling form one continuous skin,
culminating in a full-length skylight over the pool (with opening section),
which is set off-centre to flood the darkest part of the pool with natural
light. Ventilation and services are carefully concealed and supplied via
unobtrusive wall grilles and slots in the basalt stone floor. The pool hall is
heated by a heat recovery air handling system and the building achieves a good
thermal performance through the specification of 300mm reinforced concrete
structural walls with insulated cavity.
The
swimming pool is connected to the house by a glazed corridor, from which one
can also access the carport, a store and the changing facilities. The roof of
the link corridor features a full-length skylight, which softly washes the
brick back wall with natural light. At night a continuous ribbon of concealed
fluorescents washes the same wall with artificial light. The link corridor
provides access to the house and also functions as a sheltered dining/seating
area with glazed doors, which open out on to the garden. Planters filled with
Trachelospermum Jasminoides will eventually cover the entire back wall with
green foliage and fragrant flowers, further enhancing the relationship between
the pool house and its surrounding garden.
Architects have completed a dramatic contemporary brick pool house in the
grounds of a Victorian country house in Buckinghamshire. The new 525 sq m
building comprises a gym, playroom and a 15-metre swimming pool and features a
link corridor to the main house.
The new
addition to the estate is unequivocally contemporary in its design but its form
and materiality take inspiration from the existing architecture.
Built of
Belgian red brick with a steep pitched roof of handmade clay tiles, the new
pool house presents itself as a contemporary annex which is sympathetic to the
late Victorian red brick house and yet very much of its own time. The brick is
slimmer than its traditional English red brick and a concealed gutter between
the brick walls and clay tile roof gives the illusion of a continuous skin,
contributing to the building’s bold volumetric form.
Partners
Paulo Marto and Paul Acland, who have completed a number of highly acclaimed
residential projects, refer to the scheme as “playful and picturesque”. At the
corners of the building the robust brick walls give way to 3.8m tall Vitrocsa glass windows that
slide back into the cavity wall, dissolving the boundary of inside and out and
opening up the pool to the garden.
Strategically
placed, the glazed openings relate to the house and the green houses of the
adjacent walled garden and are placed to maximize winter sun and heat retention
and prevent the pool from overheating in the summer. A long slim window at deck
level frames a view of the walled garden from the pool so that swimmers can
also enjoy the landscape.
The roof
has a 30 degree pitch on two sides - which echoes with the steep roof of the
main house - and a 17 degree on the other two, giving rise to an asymmetrical
roofline which adds to the building’s playfulness.
Internally the off-white Sto
rendered walls and the Sto acoustic ceiling form one continuous skin,
culminating in a full-length skylight over the pool (with opening section),
which is set off-centre to flood the darkest part of the pool with natural
light. Ventilation and services are carefully concealed and supplied via
unobtrusive wall grilles and slots in the basalt stone floor. The pool hall is
heated by a heat recovery air handling system and the building achieves a good
thermal performance through the specification of 300mm reinforced concrete
structural walls with insulated cavity.
The
swimming pool is connected to the house by a glazed corridor, from which one
can also access the carport, a store and the changing facilities. The roof of
the link corridor features a full-length skylight, which softly washes the
brick back wall with natural light. At night a continuous ribbon of concealed
fluorescents washes the same wall with artificial light. The link corridor
provides access to the house and also functions as a sheltered dining/seating
area with glazed doors, which open out on to the garden. Planters filled with
Trachelospermum Jasminoides will eventually cover the entire back wall with
green foliage and fragrant flowers, further enhancing the relationship between
the pool house and its surrounding garden.
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