Peter Kirk Pool Feasibility Study
investing in a year-round pool facility

Schemata Workshop led the effort to provide an assessment of the existing Peter Kirk outdoor pool facility in conjunction with a feasibility study for enclosure options to allow the pool to operate year-round. The purpose of the assessment is to provide the City of Kirkland with a tool for planning and as validation for the associated work that would be performed to provide a year-round enclosure.

The assessment scope of the work outlined short-term and long-term recommendations that also informed work that would be part of any enclosure option of the feasibility study. The feasibility study primarily investigated various non-brick and mortar buildings that can have a lower capital cost, while offering the year-round comfort.

In addition to the enclosure options, our team was asked to include the feasibility options for replacing the existing wading pool with a larger recreation activity pool as well as expanding the bathhouse. Converting the existing wading pool would provide the opportunity to serve a broader spectrum of the community and offer more programs. The expansion of the existing bathhouse not only provided a high-demand need for providing family and all-gender changing rooms, but it also included an option to relocate the staff and lifeguards and reorient the entry sequence to the pool. This option would likely be required in combination with the recreation activity pool since the existing staff area would have to be converted to an expanded pool mechanical space.