Elegant Swimming Pool Project in Tehran is “Peeled Open”

A swimming pool is normally a hole. You dig, you line it, you tile it. The pool is defined by an absence in the ground.

This one is the opposite. It sits on top.

The design reads as a single pale ribbon laid across a lawn. At one end it steps down in five or six shallow treads, stacked like the edge of a book. From there it runs flat as an open deck, then curls through a smooth half turn and comes back over itself as a roof. Under that curl sits a low glazed volume, dark and set well back, nearly hidden by the plane above it.

The water crosses on a different axis. A long rectangle, rippling, laid straight onto the grass inside a thin rim. The two ribbons meet at an angle and make a shape closer to a check mark than a building.

What we keep coming back to is how little excavation the whole thing implies. Nothing is buried.

The ground keeps its level and the composition sits on it like something set down rather than installed. Shift the proportions a few degrees and it would read as sculpture in a park.

The material does the rest. The concrete holds the same chalky white across every surface, so the curl reads as one continuous move instead of a roof arriving to meet a deck. In the orchard view, with low sun coming through the trees, the dappled shadows fall across the plane and turn it into a screen.