Fiber optics for swimming pools have been working professionally since the 1990s. However, the evolution of technology and home automation have allowed great progress in pool lighting in the last 10 years, with fiber optics becoming a differentiating element between commercial pools and design pools.
Currently, fiber optics applied to designer pools offer hundreds of aesthetic possibilities, all of them perfectly combinable with all kinds of high-quality finishes, such as vetrite, natural stone, acrylic panels or italian mosaic decorations.
But, what are really the advantages of fiber optics?
Advantages of fiber optics
Fiber optics have a number of advantages that make them incomparable to other types of pool lighting systems.
The most important aspects for which to choose fiber optics within a “water architecture” project are the following:
- Security: Fiber optics have the quality of transporting light without having electricity. That is, it transports light rays from a generator to an end point, without the slightest possibility of an electric discharge.
- Efficiency: Fiber optics consume much less light than traditional lighting. This reduction in energy consumption is a very decisive point for most clients, especially among those who wish to have the pool and surroundings constantly illuminated.
- Durability: The useful life of fiber optics is approximately 50,000 hours, which is ten times more durable than traditional lighting. This translates into a reduction in maintenance time and savings in light replacements.
- Aesthetic possibilities: Fiber optics allows all kinds of designs to be recreated both in the pool basin and in the surroundings and in water play areas, completely changing the aesthetics of the project, providing personality and greater appeal.
How can we integrate fiber optics into a “water architecture” project?
We tell you.
Fiber optics in design swimming pools: aesthetic possibilities
If you want to integrate fiber optics into your project or that of your client, you must take into account that there are many and varied possibilities. In most cases, the choice will depend on the style of the pool, the materials used, the style of the home, the functionality that you want to give to that lighting and, above all, the personal taste of the client.
You should keep in mind that it is in the design phase of the project when you study where and how to include the optical fiber. You could choose to include it:
- In areas surrounding the pool, such as access paths to the pool or gardens.
- In the pool basin: recreating strategic points of light that follow a certain shape, such as the milky way, the starry firmament or a personalized drawing for the client.
- Around the pool, to highlight edges, glazed areas or integrated hydromassage spaces.
- Integrated into the coating: for example, including the fiber optics within the strips of mosaic tiles, to highlight certain shades or areas of decorum.
- In water play areas, such as fountains, geysers and mini geysers.
- In fixed spaces within the water, such as floating water steps, platforms, stairways or overflowing areas.
To all the aesthetic possibilities we must add the possibility of incorporating the RGB color into the optical fiber, either using the colors green, red, blue or white separately or in sequences.
On the other hand, if in addition to integrating fiber optics into your pool you want to illuminate the surface evenly, you will like this post 👉 How to illuminate the surface of a pool?
Recommendations before using fiber optics in design swimming pools
As you may have seen, the aesthetic possibilities of fiber optics in design swimming pools are truly unlimited. There are many possible alternatives and many valid options, but it is also possible to screw up a design if you do not have enough project design experience.
From GodoPools we recommend that, when ordering the design of your pool or wellness area, you always include the lighting study. It is vital, for the success of the project, that your pool builder indicates the type of fiber optic to use depending on the design and the exact position. In addition to offering you several 3D design options in which you can see exactly the result.
If you have a project and you want us to take care of the design and lighting study, do not hesitate to contact us!
