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We've really been
the talk of the world.
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Narrator:
Ever wonder what your neighbor's
pool really looks like
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but just can't see
past the fence?
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This sort of
black circle of water
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literally in the treetops
was an exciting idea.
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Narrator: Well, don't worry.
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We've done all the dirty work
for you.
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A conventional pool
was not gonna work.
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And what you will see
is going to blow your mind.
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He said, "I want to swim
with the fishes."
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oh-ho!
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Junaid: This has probably
never been done.
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It's a high-class living.
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Narrator:
So, bust out that lounge chair
and soak it all in,
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because we're showing you
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the most epic pools
around the country.
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The only question is,
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which one will leave you saying
"best pool ever"?
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It's floating in midair.
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Narrator: These pools are feats
of engineering, tests of nature,
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and meant to push the limits.
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These are the best
out-of-the-box pools.
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[ water bubbling ]
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this pool in northern california
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is far from your
average swimming pool,
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with a focus on creating
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the most natural
environment possible.
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Our backyard mixes a lot
of our loves together.
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We are really focused
on sustainability.
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My wife loves to garden,
so we have a vegetable garden.
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We have a tent in the backyard
for camping out.
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But the best part is
the all-natural swimming pool.
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I actually thought about
building a pond
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with, like, a clay bottom.
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That was pretty impractical.
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Narrator: So tony and his wife
set out to build
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one of the most natural-looking
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and environmentally friendly
pools of its kind.
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Tony: When you walk into
the backyard,
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the first thing you notice
is the pool and the rockwork.
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Then you start to focus
in on the plants,
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you start to hear
the waterfalls,
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and you kind of quickly
find a sense of peace
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by being in the backyard.
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♪♪
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he said, "I want to swim
with the fishes,"
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as the mafia would say.
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♪♪
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that's a really unique thing.
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We actually hired on
a biological consultant
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from oregon
who builds lakes in nature
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to come and help us set up
the biology here.
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♪♪
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we worked together
to come up with
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a biological filtration system,
which is very unique.
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I had never done one
like this before.
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Natural swimming pools use
a wetland for filtration,
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so the water filters
through plants and biota.
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We had to re-create that in a
trough that was under our deck.
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So their spa is
100% clear, sparkling water
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with no chemicals.
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♪♪
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the planning was about a year,
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and the construction, a little
over a year and three months.
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To shape the pool,
we wanted to have
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a little more of a river look,
and so not like a linear pool,
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but something
with just a slight bend to it.
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The pool is done
out of concrete.
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Bringing rocks from all over
the place with cranes
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and putting them in positions
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limits you and what you can
actually create.
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There is no plaster
in this pool.
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There is no tile.
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It involves my
artificial rockwork,
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which we manufacture
in my own factory.
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It just looks real.
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At the deep end, the pool
is about 10 feet deep.
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It's about 20 feet wide
and about 45 feet long
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as it stretches along the river.
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There are seven waterfalls
in the pool.
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The waterfalls create
a little bit of trickling noise.
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♪♪
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we also have diving rocks,
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so you can jump off 6- or 7-foot
cliffs into the pool.
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Our hot tub is actually
a standing-depth hot tub,
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so you can actually
stand shoulder-deep
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with jets up your back.
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I feel like I'm in
a tropical grotto.
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This hot tub is 104 degrees
and perfect.
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This is a pool
that's full of surprises.
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♪♪
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we have a snuba set up,
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which is an ability
to breathe underwater.
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You can actually explore.
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You see fish, you see plants,
you see life.
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So it's really an experience.
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The fish are the best part.
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♪♪
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I've probably shot
over 30 pools underwater.
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This pool is the one to do it in
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compared to any other pool
that I've been in.
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It was fun.
It's pretty cool down there.
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[ splash ]
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narrator: This next pool,
in houston, texas,
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is an engineering feat.
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We're right in the middle
of downtown,
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and the client
was very open to new ideas.
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He was looking for it to be
a signature building in town,
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something that had things that
no other residential building
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in houston had.
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The idea came up of a cantilever
pool, or projecting pool,
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that would be visible
throughout houston.
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Narrator: The pool is
on top of the 42-story
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market square tower
apartment building
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in downtown houston, texas.
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That was the goal, really,
to take this to another level,
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to make it a real icon
for houston.
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The pool is about 4 feet deep.
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It is 48,000 gallons.
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There's the swimming area,
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and there is a shelf deck
for sunbathing,
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that you can put
lounge chairs out there
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and sit in about
6 inches of water.
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When you get in the pool
and you start walking out there,
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it's very much like
a traditional pool.
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Whoo!
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But then you come to an edge
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where the concrete
meets the acrylic.
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Oh-ho!
Look.
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And you're able to walk out
onto the acrylic,
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and you have
a straight shot down below,
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down the face of the building
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all the way to the sidewalk
and the street below.
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It projects about
a little over 8 feet out
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from the face of the building,
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and it's supported by two
8-feet-deep concrete beams.
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Narrator: Between the
structural engineering,
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material testing, and building,
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the project was nearly
five years in the making.
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We were in design for
the project for about two years,
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and construction took 30 months.
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We used one of the best
structural engineers in town.
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We used a special crystalline
concrete to make it waterproof,
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epoxy-coated rebar
so all the metal in there
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wouldn't have any risk of
rusting out in the future,
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designed it such that
it will support the pool
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if it were overflowing and had
hurricane-force winds on it.
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the cantilever pool is
made up of 320 square feet
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of 5 1/2-inch-thick acrylic.
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It's in a curved shape so that
the acrylic makes both the floor
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and the wall of the leading edge
of the pool,
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so we've really been
kind of the talk of the world.
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You see this?
[ laughs ]
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the glass in the ground --
ohh! [ laughing ] oh, man.
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It's nice that you can sit
in the pool and lounge
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while you're staying cool
by the water,
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and then you plunge
and then take a view
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and then go back to your chair
right inside the water.
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It's a high-class living.
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It's a real chill atmosphere,
hanging out with your friends.
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Perfect location -- perfect.
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♪♪
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narrator: This next pool
is the centerpiece
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of this high-tech home.
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The pool became kind of
the anchor of the house.
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But the suspended dining room
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is just the beginning
of this modern marvel.
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You won't believe what kind
of designs I can come up with.
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And a repurposed pool
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that fits right into
its natural surroundings.
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So, these are
the original redwoods
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that were on
the california coast.
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It doesn't look like
a swimming pool.
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♪♪
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♪♪
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[ water bubbling ]
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♪♪
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narrator: When it comes to
high-tech, futuristic pools,
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nothing beats the brainchild
of architect malika
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and her engineer husband,
junaid.
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You put an engineer
and an architect together,
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it's a pretty fun dynamic.
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they designed and built
this house
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in the hills of silicon valley,
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and the creation quickly became
a passion project for them
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and their two young daughters.
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This house was our third child,
which we created together.
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This was a very
unique thing for us
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because I haven't done
anything like this before.
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There was nothing here.
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Our construction time
was nearly two years.
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It was done all
from scratch.
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The pool definitely is the
highlight of this whole thing.
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We both like
modern architecture a lot.
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We are very
minimalistic.
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We like open spaces,
natural light.
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The pool became kind of
the anchor of the house
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with everything
radiating towards it,
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so the kitchen,
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the dining room,
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the family room,
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everything opens up
into that space.
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You can see the pool
from everywhere.
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Their daughters are also
competitive swimmers,
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so they built this pool
specifically for them
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to train throughout the season.
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The pool is about 12 feet wide
by 60 feet long.
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The depth is about 5 1/2
and goes as deep as 8 feet.
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We wanted the pool
to have,
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like, an outdoor/indoor
connection,
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something which
will actually
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open up the back
of the house completely.
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so, the solution --
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a 40-foot, retractable
aircraft-hangar door,
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powered by
push-button hydraulics.
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♪♪
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this has probably
never been done,
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using the
aircraft-hangar door
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the way we have used it
in the residence.
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Junaid actually worked
really closely
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with our
structural engineer,
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and we came up
with this bracing design.
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It looks like an extension
of the hydraulics,
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but actually,
it is a steel bracing
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that we put in place
to stop the forces
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from carrying back
into the house --
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basically, keep our finishes
from cracking.
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The airport-hangar door
was one of the funnest
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and the most complicated
things we've done
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in the house together.
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From an engineering point
of view, it was stressful.
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[ both laugh ]
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but it was fun.
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It is a totally
different experience
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when that door is open.
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Check out the view.
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they didn't stop
at engineering feats.
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They also mimicked
michelangelo's iconic
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sistine chapel art
at the bottom of the pool.
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The painting that you see
in the pool,
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as an architecture student,
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that was one of my favorite,
favorite paintings.
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Each tile is an inch by inch
that's hand-installed.
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And our
friends and family,
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they all just gather
around food.
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We wanted a glass structure
right over the pool,
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so we can see right through
where we could sit and eat
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and feel like we
are suspended in air.
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The dining room is about
10 feet above the pool --
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the triple glass floor,
so it's extremely safe.
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You won't believe
what kind of designs
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I can come up with
on paper,
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but, you know, like,
how to implement it
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and how to trust
that we can actually do it,
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I think only an engineer
and entrepreneur
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can really push
the limits for it.
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[ chuckles ]
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♪♪
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an indoor/outdoor setup
can be the best way
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to get a year-round pool,
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but in a sunshine city, like
manhattan beach, california,
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this indoor/outdoor pool
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wasn't designed to get the most
out of any kind of weather.
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It was a way to make
the best use of space.
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For michael's pool,
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a conventional pool
was not gonna work.
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The narrow lot
he had to build on
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left no room for a yard,
let alone a pool.
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That's when I saw the container
pool was a perfect fit.
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The most interesting feature
of the pool --
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it's got two
4-foot-by-8-foot windows.
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We realized we were building him
a human aquarium.
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♪♪
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something we hadn't
done before.
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Instead of a tv
in your living room
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are people
swimming past your pool.
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It's just the best
entertainment, live.
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That was the centerpiece
of the design.
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♪♪
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it actually legitimately is
a shipping container repurposed.
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They're manufactured
in a shop,
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and they're shipped
all across north america,
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and they're really easy
to mobilize and use.
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Michael:
The whole house took us
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about a year and four months
to build, designed it myself.
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The fact that he built it
into his house,
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I mean,
is pretty awesome.
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To take it from my brain
and get it done
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and put the tile around it
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and get it working
was just magical.
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Woman: Who's
jumping in first?
Me!
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I want to.
I want to.
No, me!
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1, 2, 3...
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Whoo!
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[ michael laughs ]
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paul: So, the roof's
literally cut out.
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You get sunlight directly
into the pool.
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Michael:
I like to blur the lines
between interior and exterior.
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You'll see that
with the foldaway doors.
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My favorite part of
the whole house is the pool.
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It's just everything
I dreamed and hoped for
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finally comes to fruition.
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[ kids cheering and laughing ]
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narrator: Unique pools are often
born out of necessity,
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but for the next design,
the challenge was
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they didn't have anything to
start with in the first place.
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The only way you can
describe this pool is
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it's floating in midair,
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and that makes it
very, very unique.
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This window is, like,
the gate to nature, infinity.
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It's amazing.
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♪♪
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[ water bubbling ]
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♪♪
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narrator: On a canyon's edge of
the santa monica mountains
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is a pool
that stands above the rest.
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♪♪
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the only way you can
describe this pool is
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it's floating in midair,
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and that makes it
very, very unique.
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One of the reasons
we bought this home is
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because the view is
quite spectacular,
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and we decided that it's
probably a good thing
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to have a pool.
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Narrator:
The house sits on a steep cliff
overlooking the canyon,
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which makes building
a pool here nearly impossible.
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Man: Hey. You're very brave,
doing that.
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When you stand in this house
and you look out at the view
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and someone says,
"well, I want a pool,"
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the next question is, "well,
where do you want this pool?"
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because you don't
have any space.
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How do you make something
unique and interesting
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and make it work with the land
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and the home
that you're working with?
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This kind of project is exactly
the type of project
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that I like to do
because it is very challenging.
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The entire pool is
founded into bedrock
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with large concrete caissons.
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♪♪
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narrator:
Caissons are support pillars
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made up of thousands of pounds
of concrete.
346
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The seven caissons
hold the pool up
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and give the impression that
the pool is floating in midair.
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To make it even more complex,
there was no access.
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It was literally a
5- or 6-foot-wide access area.
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That was challenging,
to say the least.
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The pool is about 12x42 overall.
352
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Narrator:
And this pool emulates
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the contemporary design
of the house.
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Don:
The infinity edge on this pool
is a traditional infinity edge,
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and it flows over the edge
356
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of the downhill portion
of this pool.
357
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However, the other side
of the pool --
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that's the house side --
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has what we call a
perimeter overflow edge,
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which has the water
flow over the top
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and down into a hidden channel.
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When swimming in the pool
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and you go towards
the infinity edge,
364
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it's just spectacular --
the view,
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and you can just float
and stare out for hours.
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♪♪
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the jacuzzi's a lot of fun
to just sit in,
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have a drink,
and look at the view.
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It's very popular
with our friends.
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Narrator: Seeing the canyon
across the pool
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is, no doubt, amazing,
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but it isn't the only way
to appreciate this view.
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They also added
commercial-grade windows
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outside a lower-level office
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and on the exterior side
of the pool,
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so you can see all the way
through the structure.
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I suggested the windows
for the pool
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because if we didn't have
a window there,
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there would have been
no view whatsoever.
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You have the beautiful
sparkling water day and night,
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which really enhances the view
from inside the house.
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Narrator:
Both windows are below the water
inside the pool,
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made from high-grade
custom acrylic
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typically used in aquariums.
385
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This window is, like,
the gate to nature, infinity.
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It's amazing.
387
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This house, although it's
very valuable as-is,
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will probably be increased
by many millions of dollars
389
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just because of the pool.
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♪♪
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narrator: It's called
the viking triathlon.
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So, you start in the hot tub,
then you go into the sauna,
393
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then you step out
and you jump into the water.
394
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But you have to do it quickly.
395
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If you think about how cold it
is, you're never gonna do it.
396
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Your whole body, like,
tenses up immediately,
397
00:16:40,333 --> 00:16:42,199
but it feels good,
in a weird way.
398
00:16:42,201 --> 00:16:42,967
Whoo!
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♪♪
400
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narrator: Deep in
the sonoma redwood forest
401
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in northern california
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is a pool that blends
right into its environment.
403
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Olle: It doesn't look like
a swimming pool.
404
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I think for me,
405
00:17:07,394 --> 00:17:09,527
it was almost more of
the sculptural opportunity,
406
00:17:09,529 --> 00:17:11,396
this sort of
black circle of water
407
00:17:11,398 --> 00:17:14,399
literally in the treetops,
which was just an exciting idea.
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Narrator: 10 years ago,
before the pool was even here,
409
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olle built and designed
a cabin on this property.
410
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Olle: I built it mostly myself.
I'm an architect.
411
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You know, I've always built
the places I've lived in.
412
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I'm a builder, I'm a maker,
so to me, it's never work.
413
00:17:30,617 --> 00:17:34,452
The general architecture here
is rectilinear, right angles.
414
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There's nothing curved,
415
00:17:35,755 --> 00:17:39,457
so the pool is
this curved accent piece.
416
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Narrator: A pool wasn't in his
original plans for the house,
417
00:17:42,495 --> 00:17:47,532
but olle happened to be in the
right place at the right time.
418
00:17:47,534 --> 00:17:49,634
I was working on
a project in napa,
419
00:17:49,636 --> 00:17:52,603
and it had this enormous
redwood water tank on it,
420
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and they were gonna bulldoze it,
421
00:17:53,807 --> 00:17:55,606
and they said, "if you want it,
you can have it,
422
00:17:55,608 --> 00:17:57,508
but we need it out of here
in a month."
423
00:17:57,510 --> 00:18:01,012
so in a month, we scrambled,
and we had to dig foundations,
424
00:18:01,014 --> 00:18:02,513
we had to pour concrete,
425
00:18:02,515 --> 00:18:05,750
we had to reframe part
of the deck to accommodate it.
426
00:18:05,752 --> 00:18:08,019
And then it was, well,
how do you get the tank there?
427
00:18:08,021 --> 00:18:10,721
Found a company -- they took it
apart, reassembled it.
428
00:18:10,723 --> 00:18:12,123
We filled it with water.
429
00:18:12,125 --> 00:18:14,525
It's now a swimming pool.
430
00:18:14,527 --> 00:18:16,160
So, these are
the original redwoods
431
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that were on
the california coast.
432
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They grew very, very slowly.
433
00:18:19,966 --> 00:18:21,566
They have incredibly
tight grain,
434
00:18:21,568 --> 00:18:23,267
and they have
so much tannin in them
435
00:18:23,269 --> 00:18:26,571
that as long as they stay wet,
nothing happens to the wood.
436
00:18:26,573 --> 00:18:28,172
It doesn't rot.
437
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This is without question
our most photographed,
438
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most recognized project
we've done.
439
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The pool is 25 feet in diameter,
14 feet deep.
440
00:18:39,719 --> 00:18:43,721
It's about 50,000 gallons
of water.
441
00:18:43,723 --> 00:18:45,790
Most pools, you have to put
a lot of chemicals in
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to keep the water clean.
443
00:18:47,160 --> 00:18:49,861
I never really wanted
to put chemicals in this,
444
00:18:49,863 --> 00:18:52,997
and then I found out, also, that
chlorine is really bad for wood.
445
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Narrator: So olle had to create
his own way to clean the water
446
00:18:56,169 --> 00:18:58,436
and built
a biofiltration system.
447
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You create another
body of water,
448
00:19:01,307 --> 00:19:03,074
which is really a wetlands,
449
00:19:03,076 --> 00:19:06,310
so it has aeration,
it has filtration,
450
00:19:06,312 --> 00:19:09,180
and it has plants
that will eat the algae
451
00:19:09,182 --> 00:19:11,883
and the other impurities
that you want to get rid of
452
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and then pumping it back
into the pool.
453
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I discovered this round-barrel
sauna made in canada,
454
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which, of course, relates
to the circle of the pool
455
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and it just -- it seemed
so perfect for it,
456
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so I was like, "okay,
that's the sauna. That's it."
457
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so we added the sauna,
and, of course, we had to build,
458
00:19:29,235 --> 00:19:32,236
like, a two-story tower
to put the thing in,
459
00:19:32,238 --> 00:19:34,505
so not the easiest
foundation for a sauna.
460
00:19:36,843 --> 00:19:38,676
We had to make
all the modifications
461
00:19:38,678 --> 00:19:40,945
to use the wood stove,
and then we modified the front
462
00:19:40,947 --> 00:19:43,614
to hold the firewood and
the kindling and all of that,
463
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which is not part of their kit.
464
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We added a hot tub.
465
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You get hot in the hot tub,
you jump in the pool --
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back and forth.
467
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Narrator: Olle combined
all these elements --
468
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the pool, the sauna,
the hot tub --
469
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into what he calls
the viking triathlon.
470
00:19:58,064 --> 00:20:00,531
It's a favorite dare
among his nephew and friends
471
00:20:00,533 --> 00:20:02,833
when they come up to visit.
472
00:20:02,835 --> 00:20:05,536
So, you start in the hot tub...
473
00:20:05,538 --> 00:20:06,938
Then you go into the sauna.
474
00:20:06,940 --> 00:20:10,841
Now it's 200 degrees dry heat --
very different.
475
00:20:10,843 --> 00:20:13,811
You sit in there
about 10, 15 minutes.
476
00:20:13,813 --> 00:20:17,548
Then you step out
and you jump into the water.
477
00:20:17,550 --> 00:20:18,816
But you have to do it quickly.
478
00:20:18,818 --> 00:20:21,385
If you have time to think about
how cold it is
479
00:20:21,387 --> 00:20:23,321
or how cold it's gonna be
when you hit that water,
480
00:20:23,323 --> 00:20:24,422
you're never gonna do it.
481
00:20:24,424 --> 00:20:25,623
Ohh!
482
00:20:25,625 --> 00:20:28,759
Your whole body, like,
tenses up immediately,
483
00:20:28,761 --> 00:20:30,628
but it feels good,
in a weird way.
484
00:20:30,630 --> 00:20:34,432
♪♪
485
00:20:34,434 --> 00:20:35,566
when I think of california,
486
00:20:35,568 --> 00:20:38,236
I think of the cabin
and the redwoods.
487
00:20:38,238 --> 00:20:41,572
You know, now with the latest
addition, sauna and the pool,
488
00:20:41,574 --> 00:20:43,941
it's just been
an amazing place to be.
489
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Olle: I've always wanted a place
to get away in the forest.
490
00:20:47,647 --> 00:20:50,181
This is, to me,
what being up here is about --
491
00:20:50,183 --> 00:20:53,484
cooking, you know, making food
for friends, entertaining.
492
00:20:53,486 --> 00:20:54,485
Hear, hear.
493
00:20:54,487 --> 00:20:56,020
[ laughter ]
494
00:20:56,022 --> 00:20:57,154
good girl.
Good girl.
495
00:20:57,156 --> 00:20:58,456
Good girl.
496
00:20:58,458 --> 00:21:03,127
Olle: It's always been
a place of respite, retreat.
497
00:21:03,129 --> 00:21:05,196
I can't imagine a project
498
00:21:05,198 --> 00:21:07,732
that would have met our needs
better than this one has.
499
00:21:07,734 --> 00:21:13,738
♪♪
500
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narrator: These pools are far
from your standard rectangle.
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They're extraordinary
and top-of-the-line
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in building, design,
and function.
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By challenging the unthinkable,
these pools became art.
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They're the talk of the town
and the world
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and the best part
of a backyard summer day.
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♪♪
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[ kids cheering and laughing ]
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