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