Swedish studio White Arkitekter has designed a floating pool in Bergen, Norway, which will be built as part of the redevelopment of the city's coastline into a waterfront park called True Blue.
The starfish-shaped pool, which was designed with Fredrik Pettersson Arkitekter, is set to be built as part of the creation of an almost mile-long park on the Store Lungegårdsvann lake, which is an inlet of the North Sea.
To create the park White Arkitekter will build a 1,500-metre sea wall, which will form the backbone to a series of gardens and outdoor play areas.

"True Blue is our way to express the love story between the city of Bergen and water in all its forms, the mist, the rain, the running streams and the waiting sea," explained White Arkitekter's lead architect Niels de Bruin. "The design principle is as old as time ? given the harsh conditions of the natural coast in Bergen, like the medieval builders before us, we build a wall that forms the perimeter of the park," he continued.
"The space between the wall and the sea, a series of lush hills, meadows and wetlands, become a place to experience water, the wild and dangerous water as well as the soft and soothing one."

White Arkitekter's plan divides the park into three sections that will each be programmed differently. The floating pool will form part of the first section called the Urban beach, which will be located closest to the city.
"The Urban beach is designed to be a very large,...