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Swimming pool for Panevėžys

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A new destination for Panevėžys

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Status: Competition 2019 Third place
Team: Johan De Wachter, Marieke van Hensbergen, Liene Medniece, Anna Dobrawa Kicinska, Nicolette Marzovilla
Collaboration: 2XJ
Client: Panevėžys city
Location: Panevėžys, Lithuania
Program: Public swimming pool

Swimming pool for Panevėžys

The new swimming pool aims to create a special experience through spatial quality and efficient logistics for the visitors. Therefore there is only one right location to position the pool on the given site. Then there can be natural light in the pool and there is a possibility to carefully position the wellness area in a slightly more quiet zone and make the necessary connections possible to the existing pool. The spectators take a prominent role in the organization of the scheme. The existing entrance is used and connected directly to the new cafeteria and the tribune. Under the tribune more closed-off baths of the wellness area find a place. The roof is constructed of laminated wooden beams that for a contrast with the rest of the interior which takes the color of the water

A building of such importance in the city needs a public square that can match the program of the building. Therefore we propose a new logic in the public space around the building linking to the existing building and the new swimming pool extension. The transparent plinths addresses and frames the remodeled public space.

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Johan De Wachter

Johan de Wachter is an architect and founding partner at Woonwerk Architecten. He came to Rotterdam after his studies at the Catholic University of Louvain (KUL) and worked from 2000 to 2004 at the Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA/Rem Koolhaas) on various urban planning and architecture projects and competitions. In 2003 he founded Fün Design Consultancy and was a partner until 2005. In 2005 he founded Johan De Wachter Architecten and in 2011 he started 2DVW Architecten in Antwerp together with Rik De Vooght. In 2023, the agencies are given a new name. With the establishment of Woonwerk Architecten, the collaboration is given further shape. With Woonwerk, Johan works on projects at home and abroad. Johan regularly teaches and has been, among others, a guest lecturer at Delft University of Technology, the Academy of Architecture in Rotterdam and the Fontys University of Applied Sciences in Tilburg. He was appointed associate professor of urban design at Kaunas University of Technology in 2015. Here he leads the design studios with a specific focus on the integral transformation of former soviet residential areas (microrayons). Johan De Wachter was selected in 2014 for the “Europe 40 Under 40 Award”. This award recognized Johan as one of the 40 leading young design talents from Europe. In addition to his work as an architect and teacher, Johan regularly sits on various committees and juries in the Netherlands and abroad. He is currently a member of the spatial quality committee in Breda (NL) and of the environmental committee in Tilburg (NL).
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