Saturday, March 29, 2014

The Closest I Can Get

In my last weeks of work, I was asked to help design another clubhouse, because of my experience in working on clubhouse detailing for the past TWO YEARS.
One of the components is a 'leisure pool', the kind you see fat people flopping about in, because swimming is for fools ("No wait, pools are for swimming, not vice versa";"I said 'fools', not pools"; "Oh"). 
As opposed to a lap pool, it is supposed to be curvy and 'organic'. In such situations, architects generally take design cues from a strong concept, or criteria such as views, privacy and access. I just decided to be inspired by 'Nature':


Fig 01: Site Plan - The pool had to fit in the long space north of the building

Fig 02: Ex-Miss Universe Sushmita Sen decides to drop by

Fig 03: I trace around her body, breaking out into a sweat in office

Fig 04: She leaves, with only a ghostly outline as evidence (was it just a dream?)

Fig 05: I 'rationalize' the curves

Fig 06: Leisure pool complete!
To the right of the leisure pool would come the straighter, less organic lap pool. Wait, did I just say 'lap'?

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4 comments:

  1. hahahaha!
    this is brilliant!
    (don't you want another job?)

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  2. He ha! Little did the ex ms. Universe know that she would be inspiration for a pool.....lap or otherwise !

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