Aandra Lakestay Resort & Campzone

Project overview

Aandra Lakestay Resort & Campzone sits on a promontory running out into a lake near Pune. Completed in 2022, the site carries two pools — a rectangular pool set right at the lake edge, and a circular pool with a stainless-steel water blade and an attached children’s lobe — alongside guest cottages, a pavilion and landscaped waterfront grounds. It is one of PBJ Infra’s resort construction projects, and applies the same swimming pool construction and pool filtration discipline as the rest of its aquatic work.

The challenge

Building pools on a lakeside promontory means working with a shoreline: the ground falls away toward the water on more than one side, the pool structure has to be founded properly on that edge rather than perched on fill, and the finished water level has to read well against the lake behind it.

PBJ’s approach

The two pools were positioned to use the site rather than fight it. The rectangular pool was set at the lake edge so the pool water and the lake read as one surface from the deck; the circular pool and its children’s lobe were built as a single structure back from the slope, with a water blade feeding the main bowl.

Construction / execution

Circular reinforcement cages were tied out and inspected on a poured slab before concreting — the stage shown in the site photographs below. The shells were then waterproofed, filtration and circulation installed, and the pools finished in mosaic tile, with deck paving, cottages and landscaped grounds completed around them.

Final result

A completed lakeside resort and campzone near Pune, in guest use since 2022, with two pools, guest cottages and landscaped waterfront grounds.

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