Category: Pool Houses

5 Pool Houses and Modern Pavilions

5 Pool Houses and Modern Pavilions

A number of the characteristics that define modern structure — large expanses of glass, minimal surface articulation, exposed construction (frequently steel), horizontal roofs — keep individuals from contemplating a residence in such a fashion. The glass makes lots of men and women feel vulnerable, minimalism is at odds with the clutter that life generally entails, and the steel construction and flat roofs would be the antithesis of traditional dwellings, what many men and women connect “home.”

Yet these very same attributes make modernism appropriate for smaller pavilions, make sure they pool houses or other similar structures. The cases of the ideabook tend towards the former, however they all show how contemporary structure could be more tolerable to a greater audience in small doses.

Steinbomer, Bramwell & Vrazel Architects

Tarrytown Pavilion

From Steinbomer, Bramwell & Vrazel, the Tarrytown Pavilion is located on the land of a midcentury-modern Residence. It functions as a pool house and also as a workplace, a pub and a guesthouse. From this standpoint, the principal features of the construction are obvious: L-shape white walls, glass walls opening toward the pool and a floating flat roof perched upon an off-center core.

Steinbomer, Bramwell & Vrazel Architects

A closer view reveals the way the corner of the glass walls opens to combine indoors and out. Additionally, it is clear that the white walls serve as a background for art. I enjoy the yard is cantilevered over by the terrace.

Steinbomer, Bramwell & Vrazel Architects

Though the pavilion serves multiple purposes, the interior spaces are basically two: a bigger space (foreground) and smaller space (background) on both sides of the kitchen/bathroom core.

Steinbomer, Bramwell & Vrazel Architects

The sliding glass partitions create a strong visual link to the home as well as to the trees which line the house. Sunlight is cut down from the heavy overhang. It all combines to make this a nice place to relax.

Mell Lawrence Architects

Sister’s Retreat

This is another pool pavilion, known as Sister’s Retreat for the reason that it serves the households of two sisters on a 7.5-acre property near Austin, along with their houses. Designed by Mell Lawrence Architects, the retreat consists of 2 pubs, one enclosed, one vulnerable.

Mell Lawrence Architects

The vulnerable pub comprises the pool and a terrace, both covered by a trellis, which functions as an armature for plants and lighting. The enclosed pub runs parallel and is seen in the space.

Mell Lawrence Architects

The enclosed pub, which comprises a living room, a living area, a BBQ area and a bathroom/shower for your pool, opens up to the pool area via large glass doors.

Mell Lawrence Architects

Uniting the entire retreat is a grid of square concrete columns, here seen up close with the exterior hearth from the left foreground. Cast with tough horizontal formwork, these columns — actually shells for the steel columns which support the trellis and roof — define the distances and give the project its character.

Pool House, Dungan Nequette Architects

This pool home comes with a glass-walled centre part between ends covered in wood planks. The planks are spaced apart to admit light.

This central space opens itself up to the pool, a common tactic for mixing indoors and out in fair weather.

Ike Kligerman Barkley

Louvered Poolhouse

Similar to the previous example is that the aptly called Louvered Poolhouse by Ike Kligerman Barkley. While a flat roof is eschewed in favor of a gable type, in execution it is fairly contemporary.

Ike Kligerman Barkley

Up close it is clear that the louvers wrap all the walls, stopping where doors provide access between inside and outside.

Ike Kligerman Barkley

The louvers sit facing glass walls and cut down on the sun entering the one-room pavilion.

Ike Kligerman Barkley

The view from inside the pool house to the pool and the Atlantic Ocean beyond is sublime.

Studio Kiss – ASAP House

Pool House, ASAP•home

This is a poolhouse which isn’t technically different from the main home, but it is so different concerning design it might as well be. Whereas the home is brick with an angular roof, this area is all bamboo and wood.

Studio Kiss – ASAP House

Bamboo functions as wall and trellis to provide shade on different degrees beside the pool. Together with the wood walls, it generates an inviting and enclosing space using a solid, almost tropical character.

Studio Kiss – ASAP House

Here is a view of the seating area 1 degree above the pool. In the background is a covered terrace and a BBQ pit.

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