One Cool Pool: Cantilevered Design Boasts a Window in the Floor
There?s nothing quite as relaxing as a swimming pool with a view, but cantilever a pool over a stunning landscape and add a glass panel in the floor, and you?re really taking it to a whole new level. Elevated swimming pools with infinity edges provide a whole new perspective of your environment, especially when they?re heated and you?re gazing at snow-capped mountains in the distance. One hotel in the Dolomites of South Tyrol, Austria, offers a dramatic cantilevered pool as one of six heated places to swim.
Sixty-five feet off the ground and 82 feet long, the latest addition to the newly-renovated Hubertus Hotel beckons guests into its warm water with the steam that rises from its surface, a delicious contrast to all that snow and ice. Made of anthracite-colored stone and supported by larch tree trunk columns, the pool mimics the adjacent mountains and reflects the sky. A glazed window in the swimming pool?s floor allows swimmers to look down onto the ground below for yet another unusual perspective on the landscape.
Italian architecture firm noa* looked to nature for inspiration as they sought to update the existing hotel architecture, enhancing it and enlarging it with 16 new suites, restaurants, lobby, reception, wine cellar, fitness space and a relaxation room boasting panoramic terraces. They followed the curving shape of the existing wing of guest rooms to give the hotel a sense of fluidity, echoing the topography of the land.
The pool itself is conceived as a ?fl...
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