Herzog and de Meuron's Swimming Pool, Riehen, Switzerland.
Work has finally started on Herzog and de Meuron's swimming pool, 34 years after they won a competition to design a municipal basin for the town of Riehen in Switzerland.
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| Naturbad Riehen's site plan. |
They have decided to call the project 'Naturbad Riehen' and they are following guidelines which allow integration between the design, the manufacture, the current needs and the project's future growth. The pool will be filled with natural water, without any chemicals, including chlorine. Alongside providing an area large enough for 2000 bathers to pass through per day, Naturbad Riehen also incorporates a series of biological water treatment basins, positioned over the road in another field - making it an innovative and exciting piece of imagineering design.
The project was put to the side in 1982, however recent re-planning in 2007 allowed Herzog and de Meuron to come up with the idea to use natural filtration techniques in order to display ingenuity and adhere to current worldwide environmental and ethical concerns. The duo proved their prominence in the world of design when, just last month, Herzog and de Meuron were among 12 international firms shortlisted to create a new headquarters for the Nobel prize in Stockholm, Sweden. Construction has now began on the pool and it is forecast to be finished by 2014.
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| 3D plan. |
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