In 2018, France was the largest European private pool market, and the second largest in the world, behind the United States. 39% of French private swimming pools were located in southeast.
The city of Arles is part of this pool proliferation territory. The stunning quantity of clean water contained in this galaxy of pools is a source of comfort and strong economic valuation as well as biologic hazard (pollution by chlorine for example).
The city of Arles and its surrounding territory, the Camargue, the great interweaving of the Rhone, ponds, marshes and the Mediterranean coast, also host a vernacular culture that mobilizes a considerable diversity of actors and knowledge around water.
We suggested building an experimental pool at the Luma Ateliers, as a place to gather and talk about water culture.
We argued that the emblematic and open structure of the LUMA workshop could play a strategic role in helping to make the complex phenomenon of the low-cost swimming pool more environmentally friendly and more closely linked to the area in which it is set.
In 2018, France was the largest European private pool market, and the second largest in the world, behind the United States. 39% of French private swimming pools were located in southeast.
The city of Arles is part of this pool proliferation territory. The stunning quantity of clean water contained in this galaxy of pools is a source of comfort and strong economic valuation as well as biologic hazard (pollution by chlorine for example).
The city of Arles and its surrounding territory, the Camargue, the great interweaving of the Rhone, ponds, marshes and the Mediterranean coast, also host a vernacular culture that mobilizes a considerable diversity of actors and knowledge around water.
We suggested building an experimental pool at the Luma Ateliers, as a place to gather and talk about water culture.
We argued that the emblematic and open structure of the LUMA workshop could play a strategic role in helping to make the complex phenomenon of the low-cost swimming pool more environmentally friendly and more closely linked to the area in which it is set.
(1) Pont de Crau, Arles. In this 800m x 800m square, 100 pools for 360 inhabitant equal about 10 tons of water per person.
(2) 100 private pools together weave a diverse common condition on the territory.
(3) Joel Sternfeld, American prospects, 1987
Theo Casciani
Théo Casciani
Éditions Audimat
◑ with Aviva Rowley
Quentin Vuong
◑ with Antoine Espinasseau
◑ with FMAU
Miles Greenberg
◑ with Assaf Shoshan
◑ with Alice Pallot
Théo Casciani
with Quentin Vuong
◑ with Hicham Berrada
