Hossegor · France
Swim lane beneath the pines
A long, narrow pool made for swimming, slipped between the pines of a residence in Hossegor.
Overview
Lap pool among the pines, timber and concrete villa, Landes coast.
The project
The owners swim every morning. Rather than a bathing pool, they asked for a swim lane: twenty metres long, three wide, edged with a timber terrace and set among the pines without felling a single one.
The constraints
Pine roots rule out any wide excavation, and the sandy soil of the Landes calls for careful retaining. The pool had to swim straight, with a steady current and no turbulence.
What we did
We dug by hand near the roots and chose a thin-walled reinforced vessel stiffened by ground beams. A counter-current unit equips one end, and the pearl-grey lining echoes the colour of the bark.
Project data
- Year of completion
- 2017
- Pool
- 20 m by 3 m
- Depth
- 1.50 m
- Length of works
- 8 months
- Lining
- Reinforced PVC membrane, pearl grey
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