Architecture studio Surman Weston has created a pool house in the gardens of a large home in Surrey, UK, and raised it on a concrete plinth to overlook the surrounding forest.
Located close to Reigate Heath, a Site of Special Scientific Interest (SSSI), the structure was designed by London studio Surman Weston with landscape designer Matthew Childs, who helped identify a site within the gardens that are already dotted with seating and terraces.
Surman Weston has created a geometric pool house in Surrey
"The client commissioned to project out of a wish to make greater use of the south-facing rear garden, and create new spaces for rest, exercise and socialising," explained the studio.
"A bold geometric insertion into nature, the pool house acts as a counterpoint to the setting, a combination of mature woodland and a landscaped garden featuring exposed Westmorland stone and organically shaped ponds," it continued. It is located in forested gardens
Negotiating a 1.5-metre change in level across the site, the pool house is raised on a concrete base, topped by a disc-shaped floor plate.
Acting as both podium and terrace, this circular base is half sheltered and half open to the elements, and intersected by the 10-metre-long rectangular pool which projects outwards towards the forest.

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