The waters belonging to the clubs’ small swimming pools that occupied the Barceloneta beach have been grouped in a new building and distributed in three swimming pools, one of them covered and with bleachers.
The complex, built in three stages, occupies the grounds of the old Baths of Sant Sebastià, demolished because of their ruin-like state. Bathing in the new swimming pools at a height of 4m above the beach establishes an almost continuous visual relationship between the framed freshwater and the open sea water.
On the ground floor, the entrance to the complex gives access to changing rooms, gyms and warehouses. In the basement there is a parking lot. At the water surface level and on the opposite side of the beach there are other changing rooms, saunas, steam rooms, jacuzzis, a social lounge for the club and a bar-restaurant. On the roof, there is a pediment with bleachers.
It is all built in exposed concrete, treated for exteriors by the sea, to be part of the family of isolated and industrial port buildings in the area (increasingly decorated, more majestically).
The program of the new project included two areas: an indoor pool and a family outdoor pool, with a sun terrace and a garage for boats. The indoor pool building is divided into three floors. On the ground floor there is the main entrance, the register pool glass, the reception, a small administration and a gym. On the second floor there is a swimming pool, changing rooms and control rooms. On the third floor there are stands for spectators and an outdoor pediment. The structure of the building is made of gray reinforced concrete walls, treated for the exterior, as it is a material of rapid execution and can stand the aggressions of the environment. Canopies, eaves and cantilevers are protected with a copper plate. A single longitudinal opening visually connects the surface of fresh water with the sea.
