A Place In The Sun

New Levy Park Swimming
Pool Facility
Tallahassee, Florida

Architect: Manausa & Lewis
Architects, Inc.
Tallahassee, Florida
Principal-in-Charge: C. Trent
Manausa, AIA
Project Architect: Randolph
G. Lewis, AIA
Project Designer: Lawrence
Rubin
Consulting Engineers:
Tomlinson & Associates and
Copeland Engineers
Contractor: Allstate
Construction and Paddock
Pools
Owner: City of Tallahassee
Parks and Recreation
Department

The existing 1950's swimming
. pool and bathhouse complex
was unable to meet accessibility
requirements and building code
criteria and was therefore demol-
ished by the City of Tallahassee
to accommodate a new facility. The
client requested a simple block
building with a tan and brown
color scheme, which had been
the city criterion. The architect
felt this did not provide the best
approach to a stimulating sum-
mer respite and one of the major
design objectives became the
creation of a building which ex-
pressed the excitement of child-
hood.
 After convincing the city that
a new approach might succeed,
the design was realized with
children's preferences in mind.
This was accomplished by using
eye catching colors, rough-tex-
tured walls and open breeze-
ways. The designer also endeav-
ored to accommodate adult needs
by providing covered spaces for
parents along the building edge.
 To accomplish the goal of
making the building a focal
point of summertime water-ori-
ented community activities, the
new building and pool were
made larger than the original
and a classroom building with


 Photos by Randy Lovoy.
FLORIDA ARCHITECT February 1993