BOWA creates lavish indoor pool area full of natural light

Featured In: Home & Design Sourcebook

Excerpt: “Repeat clients in Potomac contacted the design/build firm BOWA to add a great room and outdoor pool to their previously renovated property. But after some consideration, the owners and design team opted to combine the two. “They decided to build an indoor pool with adjacency to the new great room,” recalls principal Steve Kirstein. BOWA partnered with architect David Cooper of Anderson Cooper Group Architects on a design that connects the two spaces.

The great room measures a spacious 30 by 50 feet—and the pool area dwarfs it at 45 by 70 feet. The challenge was to create spaces that felt light and airy despite their size. BOWA constructed a dramatic vaulted ceiling over the pool using timber trusses. Two massive, custom skylight panels, each measuring 16 by 30 feet, were installed on either side of the pitched roof; each boasts 36 five-by-five-foot square mullions. Glass doors by LaCantina fold back into pockets to separate the spaces; when open, they allow for easy entertaining. The doors seal the pool off entirely from the great room “so there’s no pool smell,” explains Kirstein. The climate in the pool area is also controlled separately…”

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