The Ripple Room & Living Pool
This redesign for the swimming pool at the CEPSUM complex creates additional accessibility to enhance the swimming experience from start to finish.
To begin the swimming pool experience, as a living pool, we have designed a wristband for all users. Users of the swimming pool are given a wristband when they check in for their program. The wristband will allow every guest to easily be identified by their swimming capabilities, and allows users to quickly alert staff if they need help or be alerted in the event of an emergency. The wristband has audio and visual communications to enhance the experience of all swimmers.
To help close the gap for those with mobility issues we added a ramp to enter the pool. This ramp in combination with the movable pool floor allows the original pool to be used by those who need shallow water and can be enjoyed by all. The combination of the swimming pool movable floor and chair lift now gives more people the opportunity to have a self-led pool experience as the lift brings users around the pool. As the lift takes users around the pool. The cables that descend from the ceiling let users move from place to place in the pool, and stopping to rest at points of their choosing.
Enhancing everyone's experience through their senses creates a dynamic accessible experience at CEPSUM. Divided into four zones, beginning when guests arrive from reception they enter an all glass room with views to the pool before they are immersed in the ripple room, where they can smell the chlorine, hear the sounds from the pool and be pulled in by the dynamic wave-like projections on the floor. Sensory experiences include the smell of mist from the pool and visually seeing the pool before entering.
(From competitor's text)
The jury appreciated the user-centered methodology of this proposal. The rope system for learning to swim raises safety issues in comparison to flotation devices. Several ideas are interesting, but the route to the pool is not improved. The proposed bracelets are not specific to universal accessibility, and in general, the proposal does not focus on this theme. The jury remained sceptical as to the effectiveness of the cable system leading from the changing room to the pool.
(From jury report)
15 scanned / 15 viewable
- PDF presentation
- Perspective
- Perspective
- Perspective
- Perspective
- Section
- Section
- Section
- Axonometric Drawing
- Schema
- View
- View
- View
- Presentation Panel Excerpt
- Presentation Panel Excerpt
