As the water in an infinity pool it right up to the edge; there will be a constant rain all around this building as water splashes or is blown over the side. That’s going to be annoying for the people on lower floors, or maybe even the sidewalk.
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More fun for everyone.
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According to the video there are water collection devices along the outside edge of the pool (difficult to see in the artists conception because I think they forgot to draw them), also the building is apparently trapezoidal in shape so the water will only splash the top few floors and will evaporate quickly in the constant high winds you get on the tops of skyscrapers.
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Oddly enough, this has happened to me while snorkeling. It can strike anywhere!
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oblig for @stinkinbadgers and @LurksNoMore
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It’s Trickle-down Economics.
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Complete with pool pee 
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I know it’s explained, but …
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Now that would be cool… if you could go to the center and it’s a little island with acrylic sides surrounding you-- and if, instead of just water, they had an aquarium. You couldn’t pay me to swim in that pool, but I’d pay a lot for a semi-private dining experience in a small room that is completely in the center of an aquarium. Not regularly, of course, but it would make a great special occasion spot.
I think the design features two walls in parallel, the inner one slightly higher than the outer one. The inner wall is the one retaining the water, which flows over it, The outer wall is slightly below the inner wall, and it holds the spilt water and channels it back to the ballast tank, where it is pumped back into the pool (so it can spill over the side again). The “infinity” trick is that the water level is higher than the highest retaining wall, so while you’re in the pool the water seems to hit the horizon; but the vantage point of the swimmer will be at most 3’ above the surface of the water so there doesn’t need to be much height difference between the flooded wall and the retaining wall.
Honestly, evaporation and the occasional splash, but probably not as much as everyone is thinking. For the infinity illusion to work, the outer wall only needs to be a few inches shorter than the inner wall. For index of reflection reasons, they may keep the water level between the two walls to a couple of inches shorter than the outer wall, since they are wanting to build the pool with acrylic that approximates the Index of the water, it would be way off from air, so it would show less distortion if the space was full of water.
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I don’t know about you, but when I’m swimming, I sometimes stand up in the pool and my center of buoyancy is above the surface of the water. I assume the water won’t be below the edge of the wall since it’s described as an infinity pool.
This is because if you are floating, your center of buoyancy is exactly at the surface. Swimming will push it above and below the surface. Standing will put it above. Which is why any talk of meeting railing requirements is BS.
I think it’s safer than you’d think… I think you could jump over if you tried, but it wouldn’t be an accidental thing.
My guess is that virtually everyone would have enough draft to hang up on the inner wall even if they were in a dead man’s float, as long as they didn’t have extra buoyancy.
Now- a large enough swim toy with a small enough person might be able to float off the wall. You’d have to have basically no draft for that to happen.
There’s a natural version of this at Victoria Falls, the Devil’s Pool. I haven’t been there, would love to go. This is just a video some random stranger of himself and his family on their vacation and edited and put onto YouTube, but it really shows how the pool works, as well as how they get into and out of it, which is kind of fascinating.
the pool is four feet deep. how tall are you?
That your center of buoyancy will be above water level when you are standing in water isn’t really a question of how tall you are. In fact, if you are considerably shorter than the water depth it would be even more obvious. Try standing at the bottom of a 10-foot-deep pool. You are lifted upwards, your center of buoyancy is plainly above you.
On one hand, I don’t think that a 6-foot tall person in a 4-foot deep pool is in great danger of accidentally going over the edge of that pool. On the other I might feel differently about how great the danger is if going past the edge of the pool meant certain death.
~2 people a year die at the Devil’s Pool, despite the constant attention of guides. Maybe not a great example.
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