Construction method for creating a restricted access swimming lagoon with beaches at a retail site
AssigneeCrystal Lagoons Technologies, Inc.
InventorFernando Benjamin Fischmann
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Abstract
The present invention discloses a construction method for demolishing a portion of a retail site, including a shopping mall with an anchor big-box store, or a standalone big-box store and/or their associated parking space, in order to create a restricted access swimming lagoon with a beach at a retail site, in order to provide a completely new setting within the retail site that aims to attract clients based on new consumer trends.
Claims21
A construction method for creating a swimming lagoon with a beach access at a retail site, the retail site premises include a shopping mall with a big-box store or a standalone big-box store and an adjacent parking lot, the big-box store is vacant, the land parcel on which the retail site premises are located has a property perimeter, and the big-box store has a foundation and is located within the area of the retail site, the method comprising:
- a. demolishing at least part of the retail site premises comprising the vacant building and/or the parking lot, wherein the demolition process includes excavating at least a 15 cm to 5 meter layer of the foundation of the vacant building and/or parking lot;
- b. excavating material having a volume of at least 4,000 m3 from an area within the retail site premises comprising the vacant building and/or the parking lot;
- c. forming a basin for a large water body having a surface area of at least 3,000 m2 and a minimum depth of at least 1.4 meters at its deepest point, wherein earthworks for the basin are created within the property perimeter, and wherein the basin includes a basin perimeter and a bottom;
- d. constructing water containment walls on at least one section of the basin perimeter to form a waterfront perimeter, and covering the bottom of the basin with a non-permeable material, wherein the shape of the waterfront perimeter is curved and the basin has a maximum width of 300 meters;
- e. constructing a sloped access area on at least one section of the basin perimeter to form a beach access into the large water body;
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- f. constructing one or more barriers around the basin perimeter to cordon off an area to establish a controlled access area, wherein the controlled access area includes a beach access perimeter, and the barriers include at least one access point to selectively allow users into the controlled access area, whereby the users allowed entry into the controlled access area are able to use the beach access.
A construction method for creating a swimming lagoon at a retail site, the retail site having a vacant building and a parking lot within its premises, the land parcel on which the retail site premises are located has a property perimeter, and the vacant building has a foundation and is located within the vicinity of the retail site, the method comprising:
- a. demolishing at least part of the retail site premises comprising the vacant building and the parking lot, wherein the demolition process includes excavating at least a 15 cm to 5 meter layer of the foundation of the vacant building and/or parking lot;
- b. excavating material having a volume of at least 4,000 m3 from an area within the retail site premises comprising the vacant building and/or the parking lot;
- c. forming a basin for a large water body having a surface area of at least 3,000 m2 and a minimum depth of at least 1.4 meters at its deepest point, wherein the earthworks for the basin are created within the property perimeter, and wherein the basin includes a basin perimeter and a bottom;
- d. constructing water containment walls on at least one section of the basin perimeter to form a waterfront perimeter, and
- e. covering the bottom of the basin with a non-permeable material, wherein the shape of the waterfront perimeter is curved and the basin has a maximum width of 300 meters.
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