Small Base Community Pool: 20 Meters Works Too

Community pool on a small site: twenty meters is enough
The site is not large, and the swimming pool is only twenty meters long and two lanes wide. The design strategy is to make it narrow and long, placing it along one side boundary of the site, allowing the remaining space to connect into a continuous area rather than being fragmented. The other long side of the pool is directly a solid wall, with the wall surface made of a single material all the way down, becoming the background for the water's reflection; a row of bamboo or slender-leaved trees is planted in front of the wall, their vertical lines making the space appear longer than it actually is. Only three or four lounge chairs are placed, arranged in a line along the wall. All equipment and showers are hidden at one end of the wall. During the day, shoot along the long axis of the pool from one end, with the narrow, long water surface, the extension of the wall, and the vertical lines of the planting drawing the eye to the end. Avoid: making the pool square and occupying the entire site, leaving walkways all around, arranging lounge chairs in a circle around the pool, or incorporating multiple paving materials.

Translated from Chinese by AI.

基地不大,泳池只有二十公尺長、兩個水道寬,設計的策略是把它做窄做長,貼著基地的一側邊界配置,讓剩下的空間連成一整片而不是被切碎。池的另一長邊直接是一道實牆,牆面用單一材質做到底,成為水面倒影的背景;牆前種一排竹或細葉喬木,垂直的線條讓空間看起來比實際更長。躺椅只放三四張,沿著牆排成一列。所有設備與淋浴收在牆的一端。日間沿著池的長軸從一端拍攝,窄長的水面、牆的延伸與植栽的垂直線把視線帶到底。避免:池做成方形佔滿基地、四周都留出走道、躺椅圍著池擺一圈、加入多種鋪面材質。