Photographer Julien Lanoo has sent us his photos of this transparent pool house in Munich, Germany by Berlin studio Baumhauer.

Poolhaus is a glass and steel construction, with white screed floors, and a polished stainless steel island containing a sink.

The pool house contains a toilet, pool filter system, lawnmower garage, and shower and changing room

Rather than being hidden, everything contained in the pool house can be seen from outside through glazing and translucent curtains.

All photographs are by Julien Lanoo.

Here's some more from the architects.

Poolhaus

The pavillion combines on 25 m² the pool filter system, shower, changing room, toilet and a lawnmower garage conventionally, spaces of this purpose supposedly require covering and hiding surfaces

The facilities are intentionally placed in a vitrine.

Their outlines are both fracrured and distorted by the mirrored vegetation on the glass façade.

Toilet, shower, changing room: The level of intimacy can individually be adjusted by curtains.

Location: Munich
Design: Philipp Baumhauer
Client:private
Completion:June 2010

Involved firms:
Glass/ metal construction: Fa. Diefenthaler
Art Smith: Splettstößer Metallbau
Carpenter: Schreinerei Hoch
Concrete floor: Fa. Singhammer

Materials: glass, steel, white screed (floor), highly polished stainless steel (bar-block), wood (bench + cover of sanitary panels), fabric (curtains)

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