This beautiful structure is found on Kastrup Strandpark, Kastrup, and is free and open to the public to use.
The Bath is a sculptural dynamic form seen from the beach, the sea and the air. Its silhouette changes as the beholder moves around it. The circular shape creates an interior sheltering the users from any winds, and also concentrates the sun. It opens up towards the beach connecting and inviting visitors inside. There is additional rest and leisure space with a continuous bench running along the pier. Just gorgeous....
The main materials used are Azobé wood, known for its durability in sea water. It stands about a meter out of the water, and consists of 870 m² wooden deck, 70 m² changing facilities and 90 m² service building on land. There are also galvanised iron railings, better than alternatives but not sure how long these hold up against the oxidising sea air. Perhaps wood would have been a better choice.
Lighting for this structure brings a new dynamic at night, emphasizing the sculptural architectural design.
It has a long wooden pier leading up to the circular building elevated above the sea surface, and ends in a 5m diving platform. There is also an annex with a dressingroom and showers, all accessible for everyone, disabled included.
The Bath is a sculptural dynamic form seen from the beach, the sea and the air. Its silhouette changes as the beholder moves around it. The circular shape creates an interior sheltering the users from any winds, and also concentrates the sun. It opens up towards the beach connecting and inviting visitors inside. There is additional rest and leisure space with a continuous bench running along the pier. Just gorgeous....
The main materials used are Azobé wood, known for its durability in sea water. It stands about a meter out of the water, and consists of 870 m² wooden deck, 70 m² changing facilities and 90 m² service building on land. There are also galvanised iron railings, better than alternatives but not sure how long these hold up against the oxidising sea air. Perhaps wood would have been a better choice.
Lighting for this structure brings a new dynamic at night, emphasizing the sculptural architectural design.
Two lines of LED spotlights run along the pier, leading into the most important lighting element - a series of large uplights lighting the interior side of the semicircular wall. Light reflection from these walls then indirectly lights the whole basin space and its dynamic shape can be seen from the surroundings.
As the light reflecting wall reaches its crescendo, there is a dramatic contrast of blue light coming from behind the open staircase and diving platforms.
Everything about this sea bath is great....its material quality, the obvious sculpural shape and protection it provides, and of course that it's free to the public, but another fantastic point is its availability and use for everyone, young and old, able and disabled, and it's design allowing for playful peaceful day or evening swims or maybe a morning intense exercise.All photos and plans courtesy of http://www.plataformaarquitectura.cl and http://www.archdaily.com/2899/kastrup-sea-bath-white-arkitekter-ab/
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