Living Pool with prefabricated basin

This pool is a special one for us: it was the first Living Pool we built with a prefabricated basin – and it's in Lenggries, just a few minutes from our premises. It was completed shortly before Christmas 2021.

The combination is what makes it interesting: a prefabricated pool with the precision you expect from an overflow edge – and behind it the chlorine-free Biotop technology of a Living Pool. 27 m² swimming area, 38 m³ of water, 1.4 m deep. Cleaning is biological, supported by a curved-screen skimmer, a submersible pump chamber as a combi box, a 55-watt UVC lamp and a carbonator that keeps limescale in check. Site supervision was by landscape architect Hans Rampf.

If you look closely, you can tell the garden is older than the pool. It was designed and shaped by the father and grandfather of our owner Balbina Fuchs; we carried out parts of it back then. The Living Pool, on the other hand, is entirely our work – design, construction and, ever since, maintenance. We like this kind of project: adding something new to an established garden so that it doesn't look out of place.

The best idea in the garden isn't ours, though. The garden shower is a work of art – designed by Franz Mentel, who is both a tax advisor and an artist in Lenggries. Merkur featured him in a profile: Tax advisor meets art. So not a catalogue product, but a one-off piece by someone who knows what he's putting there. Add granite basins with water spouts, Buddha heads among the perennials and always the view beyond: the Lenggries church tower and the mountains of the Isarwinkel.

Incidentally, the clients are also our tax advisors – the firm Mentel & Mentel in Lenggries. We like to mention it because it works both ways: we build for local businesses, and they have our back.

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Photos: Benjamin Klopp / frames for good