The original Pailleron swimming pool was built by Lucien Pollet in 1933 and placed the swimming pool at the center of a system of galleries and perimeter cabins. The building can be read in the materiality of the brick through the very opaque facades. We opened the roof, installed a glass roof under the curved arches and the sunshades, to invite back swimming while contemplating the sky. The two new buildings cut the roof structure according to the orientations, to the North for the ice rink and to the West for the public swimming pool.

By inventing a reflector in the sheet metal, by cutting and shearing the Vierendeel roof beams, we made the northern light vibrate without a ray of sunlight reaching the ice. The proof is here that we must go beyond the tautologies concerning the coldness of the northern light which offers multiple variations and a subtle play along the crevices of the roofing structure.