Herzog & de Meuron

Naturbad . Riehen


Herzog & de Meuron . photos: © Riehen . © Pirmin JUNG

After winning a competition in 1979 and developing several unrealized projects in the following years, Herzog & de Meuron were commissioned to rethink the concept of a new pool in 2007.














above photos: © Riehen








above photos: © Pirmin JUNG








The idea of building an unconventional swimming pool close to nature arose. Expressed on technical, architectural and material levels, the standard geometric swimming pool is transformed into a bathing lake where technical systems and machine rooms vanish, to be substituted by planted filtering cascades. The Naturbad Riehen will provide new and valuable public space open whole year long for the local population of Riehen. Planned completion is expected for 2014.

Herzog & de Meuron Team:
Partners: Jacques Herzog, Pierre de Meuron
Project Team: Michael Bär (Associate, Project Manager), Harald Schmidt (Project Manager), Sarah Righetti (Project Manager); Jeanne Autran, Nils Büchel, Judit Chapallaz-Laszlo, Fabio Felippi, Wolfgang Hardt (Partner), Benno Lincke, Guy Nahum, Miguel Palencia


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