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Swimming on the Edge

By on February 25, 2013 in Featured

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Architect James Law designed an unbelievable skyscraping residential complex for real estate company Wadhwa Group in Mumbai, India. One of the most outstanding and eye-popping features of the facility includes a series of swimming pools placed within each balcony. These pools appear like floating gelatinous molds extending at the edge of each apartment’s balcony.

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  • http://www.firstfound-blog.co.uk Andy @ FirstFound

    That’d play havoc with my vertigo…

  • http://wahm.business-opportunities.biz Angela Shupe

    Wow. It looks amazing, but I couldn’t imagine feeling safe while swimming. I have a mild fear of heights, though. Being at the edge, up high like that would scare the heck out of me.

  • http://www.franchise-link.co.uk/Redundancy_Help Adam | Redundancy Helper

    Woooow… It makes me feel a little woozy just looking at the picture :\
    I bet the view is wonderful, but my gut may not agree!

  • jnhks

    This is spectacular because it’s never been done—-and there’s a reason it has never been done. Water weighs about 8 lbs per gallon. 10,000 gallons in a pool would weigh 40 tons; having 50 pools stacked vertically right on top of each other comes to 2,000 tons of down-force contained within the footprint of the pool times the height of 50 pools. The ‘overhanging’ architecture of a balcony structure could not support this without support columns of some type between the floors. Invitation for disaster.

  • Brian

    jhnks:

    Yes. Good calcs. Unless the structure were counter-weighted and foundationally compensated it is simply an absurd idea. Completely ridiculous. A desparate attempt at an innovative concept…never gonna happen. The cost would be astronomical to the point of zero ROI.

  • Brian

    Then again, obviously all sides of the bldg would be the same so there’s the counterweight….love to see the psi specs on the pool walls and the engineering plans for the cantilevers. It could be done actually…on second thought. And I suppose there are people rich and stupid enough to buy into it. I wouldn’t be one of them no matter what my economic status. Still think it’s absurd.

  • David

    well i think i noticed water splashes in photo occurring, if there is a sidewalk below i could see kids trying to splash people and yes Angela i would be scared of pool breaking and me falling yikes FREELANCE ENGINEER…