The Mycenaean built The Lion Gate around 13BC to provide a formal gateway from the countryside into the citadel. In it's simplest form, it was a vast wall with one square opening.
The physical characteristics of this pool house suggest that it's lineage began in Greece. Working as a functional threshold, the structure also weaves the landscape with the pool area via it's materiality. Soil horizon-like veins are translated through the reclaimed wood panels, which abbreviate to sensationally frame the landscape.