Koc School Swimming pool is an award
winning project of IND [Inter.National.Design]. Chamber of Architects selected as best project of Turkey National
Architectural awards in 2012, 13th of April the prize was given to
Arman Akdogan the founding partner of IND.
The Project locates inside a school campus
of Kocschool on a man made green zone in between the campus buildings in
Istanbul. The design ambition is to minimize the impact architectonic presence of
a large swimming pool while creating a large umbrella for students, parents and
school members. The hill also functions as tribunes to the proposed football
pitch on the master plan. The design principle suggests two concave parts of
inflated rectangle, one is hilled landscape and the second is a concaved roof
or an inverted dome that is intersecting the inflated landscape. As a result
from this intersection the inverted dome in grid structure allowing the natural
light penetrating to interior spaces. Unlike in general swimming pools which
use ceramic tiles the project suggests wood interior skin that would stabilize the
humidity of the interior environment. The inverted dome size is adjusted to the
Jumping tower height and on sides adjusted to the tribunes gazing angle. The form
also diminishes the air space inside the pool for cooling and warming, enabling
less energy consumption for the building.
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