Google: Floatlab

Creating beautiful visualisations of live data from environmental sensors - powered by Google Drive.

Google: Floatlab

Architectural rendering of the + POOL floating swimming pool

Team: Davis Najdecki, Glenn Cochon, Justin Windle, Bobby Genalo, Adam Katz

As their website says: ”+ POOL is a plus-shaped, water-filtering, floating swimming pool, designed to filter the very river that it floats in through the walls of the pool, making it possible for New Yorkers and its visitors to swim in clean river water.”

In 2013 they were conducting tests with a team from Columbia University on their filtration system designs in the Hudson river, at Pier 40.

Float Lab environmental data visualisation
Float Lab environmental data visualisation

Our team at Google Creative Lab partner with them to present the data ‘live’ to the public via beautiful infographics, which could be easily maintained by them using Google Drive. It went live for the duration of the tests, and sadly is not archived online.

More on the project here from the Pluspool team

Float Lab environmental data visualisation
Early prototype design (laptop/browser view)
Early prototype design, mobile
Final design as live
Final design as went live, 2014
FastCompany article at launch, 2014