Chicago Parks and Recreation︎
Lincoln Park Pool

Chicago, Illinois
Completed at the Illinois Institute of Technology
10,000sf
2013

Entrance Perspective

Sited in Lincoln Park, the program originally called for a private spa. A poor use of public space, a public pool was planned instead that could take advantage of the park’s unique tension of natural landscape and urban surroundings. The pool takes a typically ground level program and lifts it up into the sky to create two spaces. One is a mix of park and pool giving visitors to swim and lounge in the grass on a pleasant summer afternoon. The space under becomes an urban plaza making more direct connections to the adjacent urban fabric. A dedicated pool flows and cycles over the edge forming a direct spatial boundary while filtering views and light to create a distinct sense of place that doubles as fountain that visitors can run through and play around.