How Can We Make The
EPHEMERAL EPHEMERAL Tangible?
examining the public pool experience. BY: STEPHANIE KNECHTLY
How Can We Make the Ephemeral Tangible? This project centers around a public pool sited in an industrial barge floating down the Ohio River. This project explores how we can capture moments that are often overlooked in the universal shared experience of the public pool. Creating something tangible in an ephemeral world can only happen through designing moments of pause that allow people to take notice of their surroundings.
Ephemeral: Transitionary, lasting only briefly I have always been enchanted by the water. The reflections of water are constantly changing and evolving through manipulations of wind, lighting and people interacting with it. How might we harness this ephemeral quality of water and make people take notice of the beauty of the everyday.
Bringing Recreation Back Exploring the ephemeral quality of water in the context of the public pool, a universal shared experience and an important part of daily life that yet is not considerately designed. Siting this public pool in the most accessible and highly underutilized “public pool� we have, the Ohio River. The barge as the site symbolizes the industry that made the Ohio River so uninhabitable in the first place.
According to The Ohio River Valley Water Sanitation Commission: The Ohio River Is the most
polluted river In America since 2001.
01. POOL
02.
BARGE
03. RIVER
MARKLAND LOCK
MELDAHL LOCK
60 MILES
35 MILES
BOARD / UNBOARD
CINCINNATI
HORIZONTAL FRAMING
VERTICAL FRAMING
Portals into the murky river.
Views of the pristine pool.
Concession
Seating
Women’s Restroom
Hot Tub
Men’s Restroom
LEVEL 1: BASEMENT
Reflecting Pool
Entry
Main Pool Seating
Reception
Ramp/ Deck
LEVEL 2: ENTRY
Seating
Upper Pool
LEVEL 3: ROOF
SECTION A
08.
DAYBED
07.
06.
LOUNGER
REFLECTING POOL
01. ENTRY
LEVEL 2: ENTRY
02.
RECEPTION
03.
SEATING
04.
PORTHOLE
05.
MAIN POOL
01. ENTRY LEVEL 2: ENTRY
02. RECEPTION LEVEL 2: ENTRY
03. SEATING LEVEL 2: ENTRY
04. PORTHOLE LEVEL 2: ENTRY
05. MAIN POOL LEVEL 2: ENTRY
06. REFLECTING POOL LEVEL 2: ENTRY
07. LOUNGER LEVEL 2: ENTRY
08. DAYBED LEVEL 2: ENTRY
04.
HOT TUB
LEVEL 1: BASEMENT
01.
CONCESSION
02.
SEATING
03.
PORTHOLE SEATING
01. CONCESSION LEVEL 1: BASEMENT
02. SEATING LEVEL 1: BASEMENT
03. PORTHOLE SEATING LEVEL 1: BASEMENT
04. HOT TUB LEVEL 1: BASEMENT
02.
UPPER POOL
LEVEL 3: ROOF
01.
SEATING
01. SEATING LEVEL 3: ROOF
02. UPPER POOL LEVEL 3: ROOF
How Can We Make The
EPHEMERAL EPHEMERAL Tangible?
examining the public pool experience. BY: STEPHANIE KNECHTLY