I've said on occasion that if (and when?) we build a house, we'd like to put a pool into it -- something enclosed, so we can use it when the weather's inclement. I know that this pool, found here, isn't at all that sort of thing.But isn't it nifty?
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That is cool, but I think I'd always be paranoid that it would break and I would end up going over the waterfall.
Well, sure, there'd be the ten seconds of terror, but isn't that what happens when you live - literally - on the edge?
That's actually pretty tame to a couple of pools I've seen in my architecture books. Well, one is in an architecture book, the other in an old copy of LA magazine.
Both pools hung on the side of the house! The LA one overlooked a still-functioning train-yard, and was made of oil barrels sawn in half, welded together, hung onto the side of the house and, I guess, enjoyed.
The one in Atlanta (the architecture book one) was just off someone's new master bedroom; their house had been flattened in a hurricane, and the rebuild was a little "different". Really, really neat!
Me? I'm just happy to have an outdoor pool. Although one house we looked at - I started doing sketches for an enclosed pool. The enclosure was based on Mae West's chest... And the pool itself? Its walls were going to be an aquarium. (That was the Mrs' idea.) We were outbid on the house. Tarnation!
I do like that pool, though.
Carolyn Ann :-)
How thick would the walls have had to be in order to have an aquarium? I'm guessing six inches or so?
I figured 3/8" of an inch. The distance between isn't that important - it's simply the pressure of the water. I didn't do any calculations - I just relied on my experience as a keeper of fish. In other words - I guessed. :-)
But yes, we were planning at 6", probably 8. And a lot of fish. One problem I never did solve - keeping the pool water out of the fish water; and feeding all the fish. I guess that was 2 problems...
Carolyn Ann
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