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Drained Granny Pools
Author: Simon Sellars • Dec 11th, 2008 •Category: architecture, Ballardosphere, drained swimming pools
ABOVE: Granny takes a trip… underground.
ABOVE: London Fields Lido, by Gigi Cifali.
A group of Sydney architects are doing their best to rob us of a Ballardian future.
As BLDGBLOG wryly notes, said architects are rehabilitating ‘backyard swimming pools into subterranean “granny flats” … a spatially innovative, if unexpected, way to assuage Sydney’s growing housing shortage’… The regions 360,000 swimming pools would first be emptied of their water and then transformed, through architectural intervention, into a comfortable domestic space, “complete with a small bedroom, living room, kitchen, bathroom, garden alcove and rooftop windows.”‘
Imagine if this idea had caught on during Ballard’s formative years… No more disused, abandoned swimming pools; no more post-industrial anomie.
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