Urban Beach Complex Using Flexible Liner for Cost-Effective Recreation
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional swimming pools and water parks fail to provide a tropical beach experience due to high construction and operation costs, artificial appearance, limited space for water sports, and inadequate recreation for urban populations, leading to underutilized urban spaces.
Innovation Solution
A man-made urban beach entertainment complex with a centerpiece tropical-style pristine-clear lagoon, featuring a flexible plastic bottom, zero-entry edges, and surrounding sandy beaches, along with a water treatment system that uses less energy and chemicals than conventional pools, allowing for recreational, cultural, and sports activities.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Ease of operation
If conventional swimming pools and water parks are built, then water recreation is provided, but construction and operation costs become excessively high
Solution Approach 1:
The patent changes the fundamental parameters of pool construction by replacing traditional concrete/stone materials with flexible plastic materials for the pool bottom and walls. This material substitution dramatically reduces construction costs while maintaining water containment functionality. The flexible material also allows for easier installation and maintenance, further reducing operational expenses.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent employs inexpensive flexible plastic materials that can be easily replaced if needed, rather than investing in expensive permanent concrete structures. This approach allows for cost-effective construction and easier maintenance by replacing only the flexible liner rather than entire pool structures, significantly reducing long-term operational costs.
2Ease of operation
If conventional swimming pools are built, then water recreation is provided, but the appearance becomes artificial and lacks tropical beach atmosphere
Solution Approach 1:
The patent uses flexible plastic materials that can be manufactured in various colors and patterns to simulate natural beach environments. The pool bottom can be designed with sand-like textures and colors, while surrounding areas can incorporate tropical vegetation and beach-like features, creating an authentic tropical beach atmosphere rather than the artificial look of conventional pools.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a man-made tropical beach environment that copies the essential features of natural beaches - including sand-like pool bottoms, tropical vegetation, and beach-style lounging areas. This allows urban populations to experience a realistic tropical beach setting without needing to travel to actual beach locations.
3Ease of operation
If conventional swimming pools are built, then water recreation is provided, but space for water sports becomes limited
Solution Approach 1:
The patent creates flexible, adaptable pool spaces that can be easily reconfigured for different water sports activities. The flexible plastic construction allows for easier modification of pool layouts, depths, and zones compared to rigid concrete pools, enabling the space to dynamically adapt to various water sports requirements such as swimming, diving, or team games.
4Ease of operation
If conventional swimming pools are built, then water recreation is provided, but urban spaces remain underutilized
Solution Approach 1:
The patent designs the flexible pool system to serve multiple functions - it can be used for swimming, water sports, social gatherings, and even transformed for different seasonal activities. The ease of modification allows the same space to host diverse recreational programs, maximizing the utilization of urban land and providing continuous value to the community throughout the year.
Applied Scientific Principles
This section explains which scientific principles are used to turn an abstract innovation direction into a practical engineering solution.
Function Achieved in This Case
The complex offers a cost-effective, sustainable, and aesthetically pleasing tropical beach experience, transforming underutilized urban spaces into recreational hubs that promote relaxation and physical activity, generating revenue through controlled public access and diverse activities.
Implementation Method 1
a water treatment system for treating the water in the lagoon wherein if the lagoon has a surface of less than about 20,000 m2, the water treatment system comprises at least one centralized filtration system having the capacity to filter the complete volume of water within a 24 hours timeframe
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AI summary
A publicly accessible urban beach entertainment complex is disclosed, with a man-made tropical, pristine-clear lagoon as the centerpiece of the complex, with surrounding entertainment, educational, sports, and commercial facilities, the complex having controlled public access and providing the look and feel of a tropical beach with clear waters and sandy beaches. In addition a method for efficiently utilizing facilities and land that are vacant, underutilized, have limited uses, or that are contiguous to or nearby recreational, educational, sports, or commercial venues is disclosed. The method providing a publicly accessible urban beach entertainment complex with a centerpiece man-made tropical-style pristine-clear lagoon. The method allows for generating revenue and increasing efficiency by pairing vacant sites, underutilized sites, limited use land, or sites that are contiguous to entertainment, educational, sports, and/or commercial venues with urban beach entertainment complexes. The complex preferably has a controlled public access, thereby allowing entrance upon payment of a fee.