Urban oasis: A swimming pool flooded with ... light

摘要

When it comes to urban life, suburbs are gaining increasingly in importance. City centres lack sufficient space and buildings to house people, rents are too high, and families and young people are looking for a better quality of life. But even life in the suburbs often means having to put up with dismal surroundings with brutalist architecture, blocks of flats featuring raw concrete and a generally grey atmosphere. Such buildings were constructed fast and at the lowest possible costs in the post-war period and have remained unchanged ever since. Progressive renovation projects within a community can help. The swimming pool in Bagneux, just south of Paris/FR, is one such project - and a ray of hope in more ways than one.