The starting point for this eye-catching project with a rainforest feel was a very lively house with parents and four now teenage children in a rural setting in the Hallertau region just outside Munich: a high-quality indoor swimming pool that was perceived as too rational was to be brought out of its emotional and spatial isolation and into the middle of the owners' everyday lives. The aim was to use the gap between the main building and the outbuilding as an architectural link and to integrate the indoor swimming pool into the living area via the spa and sanitary facilities to be inserted here.

Following the renovation by Hlady Innen Architektur, the aesthetic concept is characterized by a light and exotic feel: rosé, dusky pink, salmon and bright coral as well as a deep rainforest green-blue transform the previously very ordinary pool area into a special kind of feel-good oasis. "Capturing the Caribbean spirit of the extended family with all its luminosity and colorfulness in the new ambience, giving space to their zest for life, was my guiding principle for the project right from the start," says interior designer Jürgen Hlady, who initially set up a joinery for high-quality furniture and interior design in Hallertau in 1987 and eventually founded his architectural firm there. The client family are long-standing customers and he was particularly fascinated by the vitality and carefree attitude of the children in the house. This gave rise to the idea of combining a firework of special colors with special lines - from the slanted wall by the pool and the round skylight dome, the circular cut-out seating wall to the gently curved walls and fixtures in the pink-tiled spa area.

Together, the elements appear light and playful and at the same time provide structural order and orientation in the rooms. Hlady put together the mosaic herself - using all the colors that the feathers of a flamingo can have and arranging them in different color gradients from light to intensely dark, depending on the incidence of light. Additional eye-catchers in the new flamingo spa area include LED strip lighting around the shelves, an illuminated wash and make-up table and large round ceiling lights. To make the atmosphere even more "rainforest-like", the imposing wooden crossbeams above the pool have been stained in an even stronger, earthier color. 

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Photos:
Ralf Gamböck, Lydia Ostermeier

(Published in CUBE Munich 04|23)