Thursday 28 March 2024

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Thursday 28 March 2024

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    Sky Pool, a swimming pool between two skyscrapers

    It is one of a kind, it is completely transparent, and it looks like you are swimming in the sky.
    It is the first swimming pool in the world suspended between two skyscrapers and has become a reality in London. It is located in the Nine Elms district of London.

    The Sky Pool is a candidate to become the most coveted exclusive for luxury lovers. This fantastic project was born from the collaboration between HAL Architects, and Arup Associates and the experts in glass and transparent structures Eckersley O'Callaghan.
    Sky Pool, in addition to being the first swimming pool suspended between two skyscrapers, is a real engineering feat.

    The structure is completely transparent and this feature ignited the challenge for the designers.
    The transparent pool is positioned between two buildings 14 meters apart, at a height of 35 meters.
    The materials chosen for the construction of the transparent pool are glass panels used in the construction of aquariums and acrylic glass, more commonly known as plexiglass.
    The characteristics of the material allow to have a very resistant and easy to work product, as well as to give the transparency that makes everything more spectacular. In fact, it will seem to see a block of water suspended in the sky, given the particular reflective capacity of the material, very similar to water.

    The pool rests on two rigid side beams, 20 centimeters thick. The final product, of course, is totally safe from both a structural and a social point of view.
    To avoid unpleasant accidents, side flanks of about 3,5 meters are provided. To support the weight of the water, which from the preliminary dimensions can be deduced to be greater than 50 tons, the backdrop, completely transparent, will have a thickness of 30 centimeters. It is set between the two beams above all to avoid lateral oscillations, which could occur due to the wave motion of the water, the side wind and / or more critical unexpected events.
    Overall, the pool - beam system is placed on the buildings directly on stainless steel caissons, 5 meters on both sides. To avoid particular stresses between the buildings and the structure, the pool is not directly connected to the skyscrapers, but steel cables have been used. This has made it possible to have greater flexibility, in the event that stresses occur, which very often are caused by the sudden change in temperature and the expansion / contraction of the materials, the wind pressures on the buildings, the imperceptible movements at the base than at 10 plans are amplified considerably.
    The pool was brought to London fully fabricated. After passing all the tests it was subjected to in the factory, in Colorado (USA), and traveled a long journey of 7.600 kilometers.
    One of the largest mobile cranes in the world raised the pool to the 2021th floor. It became accessible in June XNUMX and only a few people who are part of the exclusive Embassy Gardens club will be able to access. The suspended pool is the big news of this summer.

    Source:
    https://buildingcue.it/
    embassygardens.com

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