Coastal Maine Negative-Edge Pool
Success in Shotcreting Begins with Forming
In the creation of swimming pools, forming is one of the core components to building a successful shotcrete structure, and can be done in a variety of ways.
Pool and Recreational Shotcrete Corner
The ASA Pool & Recreational Shotcrete Committee is again proud to announce the establishment of its third pos ition statement: ?Sustainability of Shotcrete in the Pool Industry.?
Perfecting Placement
Concrete is the construction material used most by humankind?wood, stone, brick, asphalt, and glass don?t even come close.
The Outstanding Pool & Recreational Project
Pool & Recreational Shotcrete Corner
Pool & Recreational Shotcrete Corner
Perimeter-Overflow Negative-Edge Pool with Beach-Entry Spa
A Camden, ME, home sat alone at the end of a long driveway with little to no property features other than the surrounding forest floor and an elevated view of the ocean
The Evolution of the Swimming Pool
Pool is a pool is a pool is a pool.? Actually, the correct words are, ?Rose is a rose is a?? and so on. The line, from Gertrude Stein?s poem ?Sacred Emily,? written in 1913, was intended to propose that ?once there, a thing (such as a rose or pool) is what it is and will always be there.”
Natural Fit
As I sat through a seminar highlighting contemporary organic architecture, the realization occurred that shotcrete construction is a seamless fit to this design philosophy.
Brown University
Brown University, a prominent Ivy League university located in Providence, RI, decided to add a new aquatics center with an Olympic-qualifying 164 ft (50 m) pool.