Villa Kget

French studio Bonte & Migozzi designed a wooden vacation house in Ensuès la Redonne, France, inspired by Mediterranean culture and Greek mythology. Migozzi revisits the primitive atmosphere of the cottage by reinterpreting a contemporary version of “Ulysse’s vessel that surfs on a slope like a crab trawler”. In order to completely stay away from hurting the land in any way by intrusive construction for this residence in France, the architects reduced the levelling work to they only stilts, indispensable to the elevation of the habitat without hurting the natural land. The cut down trees are replaced with new varieties (fig trees, eucalyptus trees, viburnum, opuntia, phormium...) so as to densify the land’s natural limits.

  The structure of the house is in laminated douglas wood whilst the cover is made of larch brackets vertically placed. Another way to reinvent the arbour and, with the help of the growing flora, to merge house and land together. The house itself has two levels: on the garden level, a bathroom and two rooms; on the ground level, a kitchen and a living room that ends outside. The interiors are covered by shinoki ash panels.

Villa Kget, Ensuès la Redonne, France
Program: vacation house
Architecture: Bonte & Migozzi
Area: 225 sqm
Completion: 2016