Contribution of Hotel Pools to Tourism - Serapool

"With Serapool, it is possible to make very di erent water designs with an infinite number of textures in pools." DS Architecture Co-Founder, Master Architect and Landscape Architect Assoc. Prof. Dr. Deniz Aslan, who continues his academic studies at Istanbul Technical University, has been serving in the fields of architecture, landscape architecture, urban design and restoration for more than 35 years. Aslan, who has been involved in many di erent project characters, especially in the tourism sector, emphasized that pools have a very special place in landscape architecture and explained why he preferred Serapool products in Anda Barut Collection, Bayou Villas projects. How did you meet Serapool? We were using Serapool's products when we first started our profession, but at that time there were more standard products that we could solve the details. There was a detail we memorized such as classic cobalt edges, overflow channel, hidden weirs, non-slip tiles. In the last 15 years, we started to use mainly quartzite in the pools. But with our Bayou Villas project in Antalya Lara, we had a good cooperation with Serapool again. The Bayou Villas project was also very good in terms of product development. There we went through a lot of porcelain and identified individual textures and these textures were produced in the sizes we wanted for that project. It was a costly project because the details were generally very high, but this variability, the reflex of the porcelain to the change of light at every turn, and the shades of water were actually very good. Could you tell us a little bit about the Bayou Villas project? What kind of texture did you achieve there with Serapool products? Water is actually an interesting formation. It has a vitality, it gives life, we all think of something when we say "like water". So it also includes dreams. It changes spaces tremendously, it expands, narrows or gives depths or light, it transforms the environment with reflections. So it is very interesting to think with water. In the Bayou Villas project, we actually tried to produce a microcosm. In other words, it was an imaginary product that was never there, and we gave it a vitality with water, where people find themselves in a brand new world as soon as they leave, where they can completely disconnect from the outside, and with the plants that support it and the reflections in the water, we actually captured a design as if it had always been there, as if it existed from nature. For this, we spent a great deal of time especially on textures. In our work with Serapool, we sifted through about 120 textures, some of which we found unfeasible, some of which we found diversifiable, some of which we had size problems, we reduced them, some of which were too small, we enlarged them. Therefore, we actually captured a system of perception, a system of informal pools that follow each other. In fact, it is a pool system that is perceived as a kind of pond, but is actually a pool system. So we did this by reproducing these textures and this was a great experience for me. In the past years, we had the opportunity to make the variations we had made by increasing the aggregate with an industrial product, and we used a porcelain product whose performance is indisputably guaranteed and whose relationship with water is known. We do not know how pool maintenance will be after us. Which chemicals will be used? In some places, there were so many misuses that the materials we made deteriorated with the chemicals used. Therefore, in this sense, we are very comfortable because we use porcelain products. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Deniz Aslan Master Architect / Landscape Architect - DS Architecture Design Partner "In our work with Serapool, we sifted through about 120 tissues." 56