The Froschkönig Treehouse by Baumraum
The German treehouse designers at Baumraum have completed the Froschkönig treehouse.
Full description after the photos….
The Froschkönig Treehouse by Baumraum
In a small private garden in Münster this space hovers above a flat pool, framed by high bamboo stilts. The visitors reach the staircase across 3 natural-stone steps between water-lilies.
The terrace, made of tatajuba-wood, rests on four stainless-steel stilts and is big enough to relax comfortable on it. Some steps and a small catwalk lead the visitors to the cabin.
The curved cabin in the middle of the pool is covered with a zinc-sheet and lamellas of tatajuba-wood underneath. It rests on eight asymmetrical arranged stilts. Large curved glass at the gables and slim windows at the sides lighten the interior and give a bright and transparent look to the cabin.
Inside the visitors notice the big curved rooftop-window above the pale lying surface. Below the bench on the opposite side drawers give enough storage space. Walls, floor and furniture made of white-glazed ash underline the bright and minimalistic character of the interior.
Visit the Baumraum website – here.
Sydney Reichman on 20 Aug 2009 at 7:36 pm #
exceptionally inovative….wow, I have seen some spaces but this is rather unusual in the world of unusualities.
Those stilts…do they hold up in wild thunderstorms….and winds or would you need to put in protective area?
very liberating visually, I would love to feel the insides.
shlog on 21 Aug 2009 at 8:18 am #
i like to relax and comfortable amongst the tata-juba wood trees too! ( i think i read that in a dr Seuss book once)
Oliver on 21 Aug 2009 at 9:47 am #
but why is this called a “treehouse”? this house isn’t build into a tree – it’s build beside a tree … so maybe every house could called a “treehouse”. I think this has nothing from an real treehouse – but overall this a well designed house …
michele on 24 Aug 2009 at 6:48 pm #
A nest for stork babie, a cradle in the sky, an egg to hold the hatched… love it.
jwc3 on 03 Sep 2009 at 6:35 am #
My kids want this SO badly… Love the curved sky light.
TX972 on 12 Sep 2009 at 10:51 pm #
There seems to be neither a kitchen nor a bathroom in the treehouse. Are they in the adjacent building seen at the bottom of the lowest photo? Is the treehouse merely an adjunct to the lower building?