Find Your Perfect Pool Shape
Creating a balanced silhouette is the crucial initial step in designing a pool that fits your home’s taste and enriches your garden. Spacing components, shape, scale and design are frequently used to complement what already exists on your own landscape.
If you would like to learn why finding the right shape for your pool is so vital, ask yourself this question: “How often will I use my pool” You may not know the answer at this moment, but most of my customers respond exactly the same manner after a season of pool possession: nearly each and every moment.
Whether you simply glance at it while walking throughout the house, enjoy evening barbecues poolside along with your loved ones, or spend a day swimming in sunlight, the shape of your pool must create an area for you, your loved ones and your friends to congregate with ease.
Josh Atkinson – Atkinson Aquatech Pools and Spas
Rectilinear or Rectangular
These pool contours are typically more formal and are frequently used in settings where the pool is intended to complement the existing architecture or environment.
Dumican Mosey Architects
Geometric shapes are generally known as conventional, but are also classified as modern or modern based on their rectilinear or sharp, clean lines.
Tate Studio Architects
This pool mirrors the sleek lines of the house’s contemporary architecture, as do many adjoining water characteristics from complementary shapes and layouts.
Harold Leidner Landscape Architects
A radius at each end of this pool softens its inherent appearance and fits the property’s style.
Hint: Keep in mind that soft curves in the pool’s rectilinear shape may also be used for underwater seating, attached spas or step entrances.
Lewis Aquatech
Freeform
Freeform pools do not need to conform to some size or shape standard. They can be based upon the most whimsical idea, but frequently are used in the design stage to complement or create landscaping. Freeform pools are most commonly used while the space does not allow for a rectilinear or geometric design.
Freeform pools have grown to become some of the most often built pool shapes, largely because of other elements of outside room design such as firepits, outdoor kitchens, pergolas and color areas.
Fluid Dynamics Pool and Spa Inc..
The soft curves and free-flowing motion of this pool allow the homeowner to create new spaces and raised living areas.
Hint: Keep adjustments in mind, both on your material selections and elevation changes. Every transition is a separation, therefore try to maintain the alterations as minimal as possible.
The curves in this pool and roofline mirror each other, or at least seem to. Balance and circulation are extremely vital in freeform pools in order that they stay constant.
Freeform pools are often designed around constructions or when existing landscape or constructions can’t or should not be changed.
You might have outbuildings, hardscaping or landscaping you will need to design around, but keep in mind that a new pool may lead to fresh landscaping and hardscaping as well.
Lewis Aquatech
Some of my customers come with a favorite style already in your mind, which may dictate the shape of a pool. Shape can also dictate style, so make sure you consider material selections, textures and your current design and landscape before getting your heart set on a particular pool form.
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