Villa Troglodyte, Monaco Real Estate, Luxury Interior, Swimming Pool Design, Architecture Photos
Villa Troglodyte in Monaco
Contemporary Interior Architecture in Western Europe – design by Jean-Pierre Lott Architecte
17 Oct 2019
Villa Troglodyte
Design: Jean-Pierre Lott Architecte
Location: Monaco

The Villa Troglodyte poses the question of the human relationship with nature, from nature to culture: how can one carve out a house form a rock, a landscape, without altering it, by respecting its volumes, its fractures and vegetation. The challenge of this project was to fit the house into the landscape by working with rather than against it. Thus, the project is built backwards, it is hollowed out of the mass. The views must be framed around chosen perspectives. Here, space is created by gutting the rock, not through construction.
In the age of global heating, the project had to be economical, take advantage of natural renewable energy, i.e., geothermal and solar, capture rain water and overcome environmental challenges.

The idea of a grotto is quite similar: to cut through the rock is to pass from the light into darkness. Entry to the house is through a fracture in the rock. From this point, via a footbridge, one accesses a very large room overlooking a pool ? a metaphor of an underground lake. Light filters in through a large fracture running across the entire height of the house, it too being a reference to the subterranean world. The entire path through the house ...