Water Dance

My cousin takes private swimming lessons in the suburbs of Tel Aviv. The place is called Water Dance. The owner, designer, and trainer spent ten years imagining this place and then finally had it built. It is fantastically detailed and has a very clever public/private parti. The typical first floor program (living) is replaced with an indoor pool, shower room, and waiting/kitchenette. The owner and his family live on the second floor. Every surface is detailed and there is no dead corner space. From the street this building looks like a house from the times of LA modernism.

Robert Irwin would liken this project to folk art... "As far as I am concerned, a folk art is when you take a utilitarian object, something you use everyday, and you give it overlays of your own personality, what it is you feel and so forth. You enhance it with your own life."