紐約「+Pool」第一階段浮動水池即將完工，紐約東河十餘年大膽構想游泳池計畫邁向新里程碑
紐約東河「+Pool」第一階段浮動水池即將完工，歷經十餘年大膽構想游泳池計畫邁向新里程碑
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名為「+Pool」的紐約東河浮動游泳池計畫，第一階段示範水池（Pool 1）正在布魯克林紅鉤區（Red Hook）的駁船港 Erie Basin Bargeport 施工，接近完工階段。
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「+Pool」計畫最早是在2011年時提出，想透過專利滲透與過濾系統，直接淨化河水並供民眾安全地游泳。
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這座目前興建中的矩形測試水池，是最終900平方公尺十字形整體概念的先導版本，最終設計將由四個不同機能的區域組成，並由團隊與知名工程顧問公司 Arup 合作開發過濾技術，可以在完全不使用氯氣的情況下淨化東河河水。
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第一階段構造物自密西西比州運抵紐約後，已順利完成金屬骨架與浮動駁船的組裝，未來將安放於曼哈頓三十五號碼頭（Pier 35）附近海域。
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「+Pool」計畫由非營利組織 Friends of + POOL 營運，已從最初的民間倡議升格為紐約州政府贊助的重點項目，並獲得紐約州州長 Kathy Hochul 於2024年啟動的 NY Swims 倡議支持；目前團隊已取得跨越聯邦、州以及市政府機構共十七項相關許可，同時也完成碼頭基礎電力、給水與排水管線的鋪設。
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由於需配合三十五號碼頭同期的海岸防禦工程（BMCR），為了確保廢水排放管線與海岸韌性設施完美對接，公開示範時程已由原訂時間順延至2027年。
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儘管時程有所微調，這項工程計畫依然代表著紐約在面對極端氣候挑戰時，將防災基礎設施與公共水岸休閒生活進行了具有實驗性質的前瞻性結合。
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能在紐約東河裡游泳的夢想越來越近了！ 這座早在 2011 年就提出、名為「加池（+Pool）」的東河浮動水池計畫，第一階段測試池 Pool 1 終於在布魯克林接近完工！最酷的是，它跟 Arup 團隊合作研發了專利過濾系統，可以直接把東河河水淨化成乾淨池水，而且完全不用加氯氣！
未來完整的版本會是一座 900 平方公尺的十字形水池。雖然為了配合當地的海岸防災工程，公開展示時間稍微順延到了 2027 年，但目前已經順利拿到 17 個政府單位的許可，離正式開放又更近了一步！
The first phase of a floating pool planned for the East River is nearing completion in Brooklyn, with a barge and an infiltration system designed to clean river water as it flows into the structure.
The in-progress pool, called Pool 1, is a rectangular pilot version of the larger +Pool concept, a cross-shaped floating pool that was first proposed for New York City in 2011 and has since faced a long road of city and state approvals.
Upon completion, Pool 1 is approved to float in the East River off of Pier 35 between the city's Two Bridges and Lower East Side neighbourhoods. A team is currently building the structure in Erie Basin Bargeport in Red Hook, Brooklyn before its installation at the Manhattan site.
The initial construction phases have focused on testing the concept's patented infiltration system and included towing the initial metal frame from Mississippi to New York City last summer.
The finalised version of +Pool is set to be a 9,000-square-foot (836 square metre) cross-shaped structure, where each arm holds different programming. Its filtration system, engineered in collaboration with Arup, is designed to filter river water into the pool's body without the use of chlorine.
The team's most recent update stated that "construction of the pilot pool's floating barge and innovative filtration system is nearing completion".
The team has also been prepping the site at Pier 35, including installing utility lines to power the pilot pool, and the eventual Olympic-length full design. The site initially "lacked the power, water, and sewer lines needed to operate the river-water-filtering swimming pool".
The project, run by non-profit Friends of + POOL, has grown from a local project into a statewide initiative.
It is supported by New York state governor Kathy Hochul under the NY Swims initiative launched in 2024. If the project is successful, +Pools would be deployed across water bodies in Upstate New York.
The +Pool team says it "has been actively coordinating with government partners" during the testing phase of the project and that a required "17 approvals across city, state, and federal agencies" have now been received.
The team said it is also coordinating with the Brooklyn Bridge-Montgomery Coastal Resilience (BMCR), a coastal flood-prevention project that shares the Pier 35 site.
A public demonstration of the project has been pushed back until 2027 from its original date this year, as +Pool is unable to "attach to the permitted sewer lines for waste discharge until the critical waterfront shoreline resiliency project is complete".
"While this shift comes at a cost to the organisation and the project, those realities will feel insignificant when we are living in a New York City that has advanced infrastructure to protect from storm surges while opening up safe public river access for healthful recreation," said Friends of + POOL managing director Kara Meyer.
The founders of architecture studio Playlab Inc Archie Lee Coates IV and Jeff Franklin, architect and founder of Food Architects, Dong-Ping Wong and architect Oana Stănescu first developed the project as a group of young designers before it went fully public.
Coates IV, Franklin and Stănescu are still attached to the project, but Wong has claimed he was frozen out of the project after raising concerns about diversity to the board.
The photography is courtesy Friends of + POOL.