As an alternative to the traditional, rather pale lime whitewash, the silicate technique developed at the end of the 19th century by Adolf Wilhelm Keim (1851 to 1913) for mineral paints, enabled brightly coloured facade coatings. In 1919, Deutscher Werkbund (German Association of Craftsmen) propagated colour as an "expression of joy of live" in its "Call for colourful buildings". The revived secret of the "crystalline glow" The cooperation between the client and the engineer resulted in a construction that combined the fields of architecture, furnishing, landscaping and engineering technology and united them in a modern overall design. The colour scheme of the exterior and interior walls as well as of structural elements such as changing room doors, window profiles and wall coverings are refreshingly coordinated for an aspiring lifestyle.įinally, little was left to chance in terms of design even the furniture of the most modern production method breathed the spirit of the Modern Movement into the building. The pavilion, where it is situated, marks a counterpoint to the extensive, flat sports and exercise area in front of the pool.
The design elements of the open-air swimming pool, such as the changing booths, swimming pools, children's pool, catering area, toilets and cash desk are skilfully integrated into the topography. The expressive diving tower as a symbolic elevation of the open-air pool illustrates the symbiosis between sport and a new modern architecture.
The structure is thought out and designed as a whole on several levels - setting in topography, choice of materials, form and colour, equipment. The panorama bath in Adelboden impressively demonstrates how architecture and nature can merge. The diving tower that overlooked the swimming bath was an expression of the engineer's virtuosity. On the flat roofs, water for the pool was preheated. The buildings lined up behind were painted with strong, original Keim's 2K pure mineral paints. In a sandy beach directly at the pool, the guests basked in allegedly original Mediterranean sand. The pool has its charm from the combination of architectural mastery and Mediterranean holiday atmosphere. The buildings were returned to their original engineering form or, to put it more concretely: Modernism gave them their technically necessary shape. This also applied to outdoor swimming pools, which drew their architectural aesthetics from the composition of elementary building systems. The search for abstraction was a characteristic of modernism in the visual arts and architecture. The terms construction and function, together with abstraction, are associated with the Modern Movement. Contemporary building constructions and functional types instead of historicising styles were to be responsible for the design of the buildings from now on. First and foremost, the representatives of Modern Movement did not want their work to be understood as a new architectural style, but rather as a new way of life that provided appropriate answers to the established industrial society. The internationally broadly based and diverse movement strived for a new beginning in architecture. Modern Movement was the defining design element in modernist architecture. This led to a construction boom for outdoor swimming pools from the mid-1920s.
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