Niemeyer | Pools Let Rocks Stay: Curves and Granite

A free-form curved white thin-slab roof floats in the hillside forest, with full-height glass walls beneath the roof. The pool is just beyond the edge of the roof, also curved in plan. A huge existing granite rock on the site was not blasted away; the pool's outline wraps around it, with half the rock submerged in water and half remaining outside the pool, becoming the center of the entire composition. The roof, glass, and water surface all respond to the topography with curves; no line is straight. The surroundings are dense subtropical forest, and the building mass is very low. Shoot from an oblique angle from the other side of the pool, capturing the curves of the rock, water surface, glass, and white roof simultaneously. Avoid: removing or leveling the rock, changing the pool to a rectangle, making the roof straight, paving the surroundings with lawn and flowerbeds.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

一片自由曲線的白色薄板屋頂浮在山坡的樹林裡,屋頂下是整面的落地玻璃。泳池就在屋頂邊緣之外,平面也是曲線,而基地上原有的一顆巨大花崗岩沒有被炸掉,泳池的輪廓繞著它走,岩石有一半泡在水裡、一半留在池外,成為整個構圖的中心。屋頂、玻璃與水面都用曲線回應地形,沒有一條線是直的。周圍是茂密的亞熱帶樹林,建築量體很低。從池的另一側斜角拍攝,岩石、水面、玻璃與白色屋頂的曲線同時入鏡。避免:把岩石移除或整平、泳池改為矩形、屋頂做成直線、周圍鋪成草坪與花壇。