183 “Tournesol” swimming pools were built in France during the 1970s by architect Bernard Schoeller.
These are rational objects, which offer amazing spatial qualities, natural light, high quality indoor / outdoor relationship with large sliding doors and a certain elegance in structural design.
The dome which is a self sufficient form makes any extension difficult. How to increase the capacity of such an object without altering the image?
The project preserves the simplicity the original pool: the extensions built over time are demolished, the area liberated by moving the changing rooms allow three stainless steel basins to take place under the dome.
The extension building houses the entrance hall, changing rooms, offices and technical rooms. It is independent of the pool hall, it is a “boomerang” that wraps the dome without touching it, without deforming it.
In between, a landscaped patio organizes many transparencies between hall, pools and locker rooms. Source by Urbane Kultur
Location: Lingolsheim, France
Architects: Urbane Kultur
Project Team: Philippe Dahan, Dominique Cornaert, Amaury Sigwarth, Piotr Jansky
Landscape: Bruno Kubler
Structure: Structurest
Cost Estimator: Les Economistes
Fluids engineer: SNC Lavalin
Acoustics: Euro Sound Project
Client: Communauté Urbaine de Strasbourg
Costs: 4 800 000 €
Area: 1790sqm
Year: 2014
Photographs: Jean Baptiste Dorner, Communauté Urbaine de Strasbourg, Courtesy of Urbane Kultur
