Feng Shui swimming pool by Mikou Studio
07/01/2016.
[ISSY-LES-MOULINEAUX] France
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The co-founders of the study, Salwa and Selma Mikou, designed pool with a budget of 14.5 million euros to Aquasana, located in the suburb of Issy-les-Moulineaux, south-west of the capital. The architects worked with Feng Shui specialist Laurence Dujardin on the project, using the Chinese space-planning philosophy to determine the best way to orientate elements to create an uncluttered layout with an abundance of natural light.
Description of the project by Mikou Studio
We designed the building’s envelope to attenuate the linear effect of the massing and to introduce a variation in the visual perception according to the viewing angle. All the external walls are faced with undulating golden wooden slats that recall the circular movements on the surface of water and make reference to the circulation of energy and flows: the Feng Shui. We designed the Fort swimming pool in a spirit of fluidity and openness.
The development of the spaces gives priority to transparency and the depth of field associated with very good use of daylight. All the facades are open and accessible, and the various elements of the programme are organised in the form of light, coloured, rounded bubbles, floating on the project’s spatial continuum. Our design scheme emphasizes the roof as a determinant element of the Fort swimming pool providing a solarium that is accessible via an indoor-outdoor ramp that runs along the swimming pools hall and provides access to the fifth facade.
Hemos diseñado la cubierta del edificio para atenuar el efecto lineal de la masificación construida y para introducir una variación en la percepción visual de acuerdo con el ángulo de visión. Todos los muros exteriores se enfrentan con ondulantes listones de madera dorados que recuerdan los movimientos circulares en la superficie del agua y hacen referencia a la circulación de la energía y de los flujos: el Feng Shui. Diseñamos la piscina Fort en un espíritu fluido y abierto.
El desarrollo de los espacios da prioridad a la transparencia y a la profundidad del campo asociado con el uso adecuado de la luz del día. Todas las fachadas son abiertas y accesibles, y los diversos elementos del programa se organizan según luz, colores, burbujas redondeadas, flotando en un continuo espacial del proyecto. Nuestro esquema de diseño haciendo hincapié en el techo como un elemento determinante de la piscina Fort proporcionando un solarium que es accesible a través de una rampa interior-exterior que se extiende a lo largo del pasillo de piscinas y ofrece acceso a la quinta fachada.
CREDITS. DATA SHEET.-
Architect.- Mikou Studio
Collaborators.- Feng Shui specialist.- Laurence Dujardin. Structure.- Intégrale 4. Mechanicals.- Choulet. Economy.- Sletec. HQE.- Transfaire
Client.- City of Issy-les- Moulineaux, SPL Seine Ouest Aménagement.
Programme.- Swimming pool, health club, solarium, squash courts, sauna, hammam.
Surface.- 4 000 m²
Status.- Completed 2015.
Mikou Design Studio was founded in 2005 by Selma Mikou and Salwa Mikou, after many years working with many architects, in particular Renzo Piano and Jean Nouvel. Mikou Design Studio is a place of creation and experimentation in architecture and its inter-disciplinary cross-fertilisation. The designing process, with a workshop spirit, puts into gear a team of architects, engineers, graphic artists, scenographers and town planners from very different cultural backgrounds.
Mikou Design Studio is currently involved in a large number of projects throughout France, Germany, Brazil and Morocco, with a focus on cultural and educational buildings, housing and offices.
Salwa Mikou. Architect, Associate of Mikou Design Studio since 2005. She collaborates during 5 years, from 2001 to 2005, with Jean Nouvel on many international projects. From offices to housing in Beirut, Seoul and Paris to urban projects in Doha, Valencia or Rabat. She also takes part in a leisure complex in Koweit city, a park in Barcelona and, an urban project for the Tanger harbour.
2012 MICQ consultant since January 2012
2011 Selected for Europe 40 under 40 of 2011
2009 Training at IHEDATE, Institute of Advanced development studies and regional planning in Europe
2004 Further Education in Sustainable Development, Federal Polytechnic School of Lausanne
2005 Creation of Mikou Design Studio
2001-2005 Project Manager at Ateliers Jean Nouvel Paris
2001 Diploma in Urbanism, School of Architecture Paris la Villette
2000 DPLG diploma, School of Architecture Paris-Belleville
Selma Mikou. Architect, Associate of Mikou Design Studio since 2005. She collaborates during 4 years, from 2001 to 2004, with Renzo Piano on plenty of international projects such as offices and housing in London, urban projects in Abu Dhabi, the Lacma Museum in Los Angeles and the London Bridge Tower.
2011 Selected for Europe 40 under 40 of 2011
2005 Creation of Mikou Design Studio
2001-2005 Project Manager at Renzo Piano
2001 Diploma in Urbanism, School of Architecture Paris la Villette
2000 DPLG diploma, School of Architecture Paris-Belleville