This ‘Cabin’ in the Hamptons, with it’s distinctly long cantilevers, demanded an equally dramatic long lap pool. Designed by Jasmit Singh Rangr, founder of Rangr Studio, the bold home is distinguished by clean lines integrated into its site without disturbing anything beyond its footprint. The architectural coordination of the watershape’s design is a perfect match with the home.
The spa sits at the corner of the deck and this vanishing edge pool literally disappears into the forest. The design incorporates bright coping which draws your eyes to the edge.
The vanishing edge pool reaches into the forest the same way the home stretches its cantilevers into the environment. For a better look at the project visit Rangr Studio.
Below the wood deck is a coil of floating slats that roll out to cover the pool and retain heat when the pool is not enjoyed for its beauty or functionality.
Looking back at the dramatic house from the vanishing edge of the pool.The vanishing edge pool sits on 36 timber piles driven into the soft soil.
An absolute black granite waterwall invites Intuit employees with pleasing visuals and acoustics to working lunch meetings in Mountain View, California.
Intuit’s “Cook Campus Center” is fronted by the black granite waterwall as the walkway rises up to entrance level.The stair stepped waterwall basin changes elevation to match the walkway’s grade while providing small pools for submerged lighting to highlight the walls at night.Coldspring built the granite wall panels using a multi-axis CNC machine to create the 1/2″ wide x 2″ tall steps while also curving the panels in their horizontal planes. It’s a complicated feat of 3D modeling and stone work only possible with detailed and coordinated drawings between us, AECOM and Coldspring.Waterwall plan view of reinforced concrete structure.The Intuit campus rain garden included a series of custom solid granite benches machined by Coldspring‘s multi-axis CNCs. The intent was to create a series of meeting places between the buildings where employees could collaborate with the pleasant sound of falling water around them.The subterranean equipment vault included a surge tank where the waterwall’s water-in-transit was stored. This was done by gravity flowing from the wall’s basin to the surge tank so that a tightly controlled water level was always present in the public area for safety and aesthetic purposes. Filtration systems were engineered to maintain water quality for the waterwall, three rain garden features, and a small recessed waterwall at the eating area.
Mosaic tile images have been around for thousands of years. This implementation in 2012 included a Stradivarius violin wood-grain blend.
Colored lights are capable of changing the overall appearance of the violin in fascinating ways.The owner plays the violin and he thought of the shape for the pool because he wanted a play area (body), lap section (neck) and spa (chin-rest). The “bow” was conceived as a koi pond, separated from the neck by acrylic windows.The pool looks a bit like a guitar in this view and the perimeter overflow spa shines like a polished ebony chin-rest.
Oceanside Glass & Tile made a custom blend of mosaic tiles to mimic the wood grain of a Stradivarius. The “f-holes” and tailpiece are black glass tile. Yes – I couldn’t resist including “f-holes” in this blog!With a beautiful background of custom blended mosaic tiles, the violin strings shimmer with light and guide lap swimmers from tailpiece to the “scroll” and back.The violin’s “upper bout” is 7′-4″ deep.
Don’t Break the Neck
The pool is 7′-4″ deep where it meets the neck. It is possible that the body and neck could hinge due to differential soil settlement so extra reinforcing steel was added, reminiscent of the violin strings.
Similarly, the koi pond “bow” crosses the neck with acrylic windows separating fish from lap swimmers. Extra reinforcing was added here too and resembles the horse hair used for real violin bows.
This is the type of special structural engineering that Watershape Consulting is known for – we are creative problem solvers.
Extra reinforcing steel added to the violin neck and koi pond “bow” connections.
