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[Summer Break of the Future] The Pool That’s Also an Abstract Painting

Now you can cannonball into the Suprematist landscapes of Kazimir Malevich.
All images courtesy of 100architects

In the future, the public pool you bellyflop into will be a work of art. Or, at least, inspired by one.

Created with painter and theorist Kazimir Malevich and the Russian Suprematist movement in mind, 100architects’ public pool in Moscow’s city center is the picture of a floating abstract painting. According to the architects, “Programmatically the project connects the riverbank with its interior, through a wooden deck, allowing fluid access to floating platforms that contains the pools. These platforms are interconnected and displayed according to the painting.”

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The pool is also a seasonal fixture, as its wood, steel, and glass-fiber beams are collapsible. The architects designed the pool so that it can literally be packed away for winter, and then brought back out again for summer. In season, the pool will sit along the Moskva River in the Gorky Central Park of Culture and Leisure. Check out some renderings and the blueprint of the pool below, and size it up next to its muse, a Malevich painting:

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