Josephine Baker Swimming Pool
The new pool is to be called the Piscine Josephine Baker, after the American dancer, actress, singer, civil rights activist and French resistance heroine, who died in Paris in 1975.
The Piscine Josephine Baker is more of a swimming pool barge hugging the bank of the Seine, but it could prove to be a new solution for public bathing. Up to 375 people can swim in the 25-metre pool with extra space on the sundeck and in the cafe and gym.
“It has a sliding roof, and you can also open the facade towards the river, so when you’re swimming in the pool you have the impression you’re swimming in the Seine,” says its architect, Robert de Busni. The pool takes it from the river and treats it, then we give it back to the Seine more pure than when we took it out.” The pool was a challenge to design and build, according to de Busni, since it combines conventional and naval architecture. In order to get it to its location in the 13th arrondissement, it had to be designed in pieces and assembled on site, with the result that it can be taken apart “like Lego” and rebuilt somewhere else, says de Busni. “We can put it anywhere.”
May 29, 2007 - Category: Architecture - Posted by: Chantal - Comments: 1
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