Passive house pool with a Caribbean flaire

11/03/2009

The city of Bamberg applied for the first indoor swimming pool to be built according to the passive house standard in December 2008. Bamberg, whose old town is know as “Little Venice”, has problems with drastic water shortages for school sports and the needs of sports clubs and the university with only 0.006 square meters of surface water area pro resident. The Passive House Institute is accompanying the new construction project during the planning phase. They have implemented the integration of the entire water slide area into the interior of the pool house to avoid heat loss. The highly insulating outside facade is designed to fit with the Caribbean flair of Bambados, as is the sawtooth roof construction required by the Passive House Institute, which is designed to cast natural sunlight down onto the leisure pool together with the south facing windows. Different pool zones with different temperatures (like onion layers) and air locks to the outside areas will reduce additional heat loss. A block heat and power plant will be installed to heat the air and the pool water and the evaporation will be consistently minimized.