It’s fairly common for swimmers, writers, or others to liken swimming to flying. The feeling of weightlessness, the suspension above the solid floor beneath, the sensation of soaring along with flying colors – all add to the idea that swimming is as close to flying as human beings can get.
Architects in London are taking that idea to the extreme, building a clear-bottomed pool that will be suspended between two separate buildings 10 stories in the air.
The BBC reports on the pool, which has been nicknamed “The Sky Pool,” for obvious reasons.
The pool, when completed, will serve as a bridge between two independent buildings in London. It will be 25 meters across – the same distance used on FINA’s World Cup series and at the FINA Short Course World Championships – and will hover 35 meters (or almost 115 feet) up in the air.
The idea for the Sky Pool is still in its early stages, according to the BBC, but the project is currently slated to be completed by 2019.
The pool will be a part of Embassy Gardens at Nine Elms, a luxury property development in London.
The pool structure will be made of transparent acrylic – a stronger material that still gives the pool clear walls, meaning swimmers can literally look down to the city streets ten stories below.
One of the biggest challenges at this point, according to the BBC? Figuring out how to balance the pool between two buildings that often move independent of one another in the wind.
But then won’t people down below be able to see me peeing?
A swim aquarium?
The real challenge will be how to stop fat ppl & totally awful swim stylists from getting in & blighting the city sky line .