Urban Treehouse by Baumraum

Berlin, home to some 3.5 million Germans, is a pretty busy city. So imagine the surprise you’d get if you stumbled across one of these new urban treehouses by Baumraum.

The Urban Treehouse isn’t quite a pure treehouse – it’s supported by galvanized steel – but it is perched a full story off of the ground and totally surrounded by trees on a 7,000 square foot lot. The steel supports are framed with larch paneling and actually serve as storage for bicycles or gardening tools and such. You climb a steel staircase and enter 400 square foot living space. It’s not exactly fit for family get-togethers, but hey, that could be a good thing. And again, you’re living in a sweet steel-made treehouse in the middle of Berlin. [Photography: Laura Fiorio | Via]