Photographer Julien Lanoo has sent us his photos of this wooden folly with mirrored shutters in the mountains of southern Germany by Berlin studio Baumhauer.
The pavilion has a series of deeply set openings and niches that double up as seating, and a ladder leading up to a roof terrace.
The entire structure is clad in larch boards, while the shutters are made from polished stainless steel.
All photographs are by Julien Lanoo.
Here's some more from the architects:
Folly
The pavillion, which was comissioned privately, was originally conceived and planned as a tea house.
In the course of the planning phase, the project evolved into a decorative and ornamental structure that was given a new purpose.
It grew into a Folly of the kind that populated 18th century landscaped gardens in England and turned into an edifice without a clear definition - a larger than lifesize abstract piece of furniture.
Niches in the facade, the roof as well as the interior, where cushions await, invite reposal.
The exterior consists of planed boards of larchwood, whose smoothness contrast with the weathering process.
No flashing (cover sheet), socket or visible attic detract from the sharp edges and solidity of the structure - in part to ensure that the aging process will appear completely homogeneous.
When not in use, the pavillion is closed with shutters made of highly polished stainless steel.
In this way depth is achieved not only by structural means but in an imaginary and illusional way using the reflecting qualities as a mirror.
Material: larch wood, oriented strand board, highly polished stainless steel
Completion: June 2010
Location: Southern Germany
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| Trail House by Anne Holtrop |
Dominey Pavilion by Lightroom Studio |
Wood Pavillion by Hui and Wong |
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well,it's a really design,but i wonder if somebody will like to live in it?
it may look much better when it weathers but as of now it detracts from some spectacular views.
I hate to post such a negative comment but the thing has such horrible proportions and balance; it looks clumsy.
I agree with Edward but doubt it will detract any less as it ages.
Hideous.
…as much as I like the mirror-effect (pic 2/4), I wonder how they look either with those black eagle-stickers on it, or with the stains of birds crashing onto the shades,…
Regarding Richard's comment, I would argue that 'horrible proportions and balance, clumsy' reinforce the value of the architectonic piece.
That means that is different from what we understand as 'beautiful, correct'; that means that is not so our traditional preconceptions, or our standard understanding of proportion… and that means that the piece cares more about its own 'faktura', its own 'materiality', derived from the use of the construction materials And it also cares about the concept of an object that reflect the environment and the subject, therefore making them active and thus not passive.
Who cares about proportion? Long live to the 'clumsy'
I rather like it. Sure it "detracts" from its environment and its proportions may be "off" but the piece itself is meant to be a distraction, hence its (yes, seemingly post-rationalized) folly designation. I find it stands on its own as an insertion in a beautiful landscape, a destination that visitors may come and take in all the sights and sounds.
Migeul, there's a difference between artfully clumsy and badly organized order. This is the latter.
I would say it will age badly, but since it has no purpose it can't exactly become less functional, and it's already ugly so can't lose aesthetic appeal.
surprise! surprise!
TheftDaily is stealing your work again…
http://www.archdaily.com/72053/folly-philipp-baum…
First off, for all you nay sayers; how can you possible judge with certainty how horrible or clumsy it is without seeing it in person. As for how it ages, you cannot possibly know, again, with certainty of such things. You hate the world that you haven't designed, the worst character trait of architectural critics.
p.s. to the jackass that said "wonder if anyone would want to live in it"…………need i really say anything?