A pool is mostly what you cannot see: filtration, pumping, heating and the plant room. The person who leads this strand at the studio brings fifteen years in hydraulic systems and water features: plant and pool design in Bogotá (2007-2012) and infinity-edge pools in the Caribbean (2019-2022).
A pool is not heated: it is stopped from cooling. Evaporation carries off some 86 kWh a day, more than any piece of equipment will replace cheaply. Here is the comparison per useful kWh, on August 2026 tariffs, and the regulatory fact nobody mentions.
9 min
A salt pool is a chlorine pool: the cell makes the chlorine on site instead of you buying it in a tub. And the proof is not chemical, it is regulatory. What salt really buys you, what it really costs, and what has to be measured in both.
9 min
All three can be built well and all three can be built badly. What really decides it in Colombia are two things no brochure mentions: the width of the road the shell has to travel down, and the water sitting under the ground.
8 min
Most owners discover this number after they have signed. Here it is, worked out from the published water and electricity tariffs, with what has a public price kept separate from what does not, and with what the rules require to be done every day.
10 min
Nobody publishes official pool prices in Colombia, and anyone quoting you a figure without having seen your plot is making it up. What can be worked out, and is worked out here from the published tariff schedules: what it costs to fill, and what the month costs.
10 min
Sharing the machinery between the two sounds like a saving and is the most predictable failure in the field. Since 2026 the rules require independent recirculation, and there is a physical reason behind it worth understanding.
12 min
The word "portable" makes you think of an appliance. It is two tonnes on four square metres, water at 40 °C and electricity, all at once. Since 2026 Colombian rules finally name it.
16 min
Two problems, in this order: will it hold, and will it leak. NSR-10 does deal with pools (it has a whole chapter) and the terrace load table circulating online has been superseded since 2011.
15 min
It gets priced as builder’s work and it is a machine. Until Resolución 929 de 2026 no Colombian rule governed it; now one does, and it requires things almost no existing plant room has. Plus the level decision you cannot undo later.
15 min
It is not a finish on the shell: it is a whole other hydraulic system, and since Resolución 929 de 2026 it is in the rules. The pump does not draw from the floor, the surge tank is compulsory and has a minimum size, with an ambiguity worth knowing.
13 min
Almost everything repeated about this law is wrong: it requires neither a 1.20 m enclosure nor a permanent lifeguard in a residential development. What it does require, article by article, and the technical gap that makes "type-approved device" mean almost nothing.
23 min
There is no such thing as a "pool permit": no national rule names one. The answer depends on where, on what, and what you touch. And there are safety duties that apply whether you hold a permit or not.
8 min
We start from how you want to live or work, not from a drawing. We set the brief, the budget and the timeline in order, and that turns into something you can look at and correct (massing, plans, images) before committing to anything.