How can we use the extension of the Sloterpark pool to combine the ideals of the public bath movement of the fifties with the differentiated and more individual wishes of the contemporary city dweller? Where the first group wanted large size pools for mass immersion, often in the open air, the second group wants more intimate places for recreation or Spartan training.

Placing the extension over the existing pool creates a compact combination of a Spartan foundation of more utilitarian an separately rentable baths which has above it a more hedonistic recreational level. This stacking combines modesty, taking as little space as possible from the park, with a ‘presence’ that goes well with the existing towers around the lake.

The folds make the upper hall feel like a ‘beach’ with an outlook over the Sloterplas. Recreational baths are placed as baths in the bath; a waterfall streaming off the Alpine wall forms a natural ‘grotto’ in the water, a ring of sprays forms a separable space for toddlers in the ‘surf’ and a number of whirlpools are lodged in the sloping beach. A net fence surrounds the roof, which is accessible and so becomes part of the park; one can walk over the garden of grass, wood, plastic, sand and granite.