Pool the pools: from water and social enclosure to resilient neighbourhoods in times of climate emergency

Esther Amélie Chatelain

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Magali Nour Hölzl

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Lucien Eric Rahm

Around the pond, two forms of enclosure persist: people bounded by walls, and stagnant water bounded by private pools. The project proposes to pool the pools together into a shared network that reconnects neighbours and opens the territory by filtering water and reusing runoff to support biodiversity. By turning isolated amenities into small communal interfaces, the system transforms enclosure into connection, weaving a collective ecological infrastructure across the landscape.

Team
Author(s):
Esther Amélie Chatelain, Magali Nour Hölzl, Lucien Eric Rahm
Unit:
RIOT
Teacher(s):
Charlotte Malterre-Barthes
Assistant(s):
Elif Erez Henderson, Antoine Pierre Marie Iweins D'Eeckhoutte, Kathlyn R Kao
Infos
Year:
2025
Period:
Y3 (BA), Y1 (MA), Y2 (MA), Fall
Category:
Semester Project
Topic:  
Architecture, Construction, Environment, Experimentation, Landscape, Representation, Society, Sustainability, Technology, Territory, Urban study
Document Type:
Image
Copyright:
CC BY Licence
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