Open-Air Swimming Pool in Nördlingen
One of the main conditions of the brief was that the water for the pools should be heated exclusively by solar energy. This form of energy is ideally suited to this purpose, since a single sunny day is adequate to raise the temperature of the water for all the pools to the required level; and the number of visitors to open-air baths reaches its normal level only on the second fine day after a period of bad weather. The most striking feature of the design is the independent roof construction, which is slightly inclined to follow the slope of the site and to capture more solar radiation.
