Imagine sitting in a swimming pool looking down onto the city below. Straight down to the sidewalk below. With RPT’s R-Cast™ acrylic, it’s reality at the Intercontinental Hotel Dubai Festival City. RPT supplied a large, curved piece of acrylic to serve as the wall at one end of a pool. The trick was that this edge of pool actually extended beyond the roofline several feet. The curved piece of acrylic allows guests to swim right up to the end of the pool and look down at the city below, either through the acrylic wall or the curved acrylic beneath their feet. For safety reasons, the acrylic is curved quite steeply to prevent anyone from attempting to swim over the edge. As the water in the pool only extends a few feet high on the acrylic, there is a significant amount of acrylic overhead, as well as the sides of the pool, to keep swimmers safe.