Luka Murovec — Architecture & Art
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LUKA MUROVEC

architecture & art for public space
︎THE BLUE PARK

FLOATING POOLS IN AN INDUSTRIAL HARBOUR
2023
/ Project Coordination and Planning, Public Architecture
/ Frihamnen Harbour, Gothenburg, Sweden
/ City of Gothenburg 
Göteborgs Stad
Jessica Segerlund
Kristoffer Nilsson
Amelie Sandow

raumlaborberlin

Atelier Le Balto
Mareld Landskap
Buro Happold

Polyplan Kreikenbaum

Bluet Floating Solutions

Serneke
Tyrens
Sweco

The Blue Park is a continuation of raumlabor’s public sauna and pool project from 2014/2015, transforming part of Frihamnen into a public waterside landscape for bathing, gathering, and everyday use. The original sauna structure has been refurbished for long-term public use, while new amenity buildings, wooden decks, paths, and planted wetlands extend the project into the harbour.

Rather than treating the waterfront as a hard edge, the project creates a sequence of spaces between land and water. Visitors move through reeds, timber walkways, terraces, changing areas, and bathing points, entering a former industrial harbour that has been reworked as a civic and recreational landscape.

The new floating bathing platform is designed as a collage of the existing pool and a series of new platforms, access points, and bathing facilities. Together, they form an open public infrastructure for swimming, sauna, resting, meeting, and spending time by the water.