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Architects: Aznar + Tailly
- Area: 275 m²
- Year: 2023
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Photographs:Philippe-Alexandre Aka-Adjo
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Lead Architects: Remy Aznar, William Tailly
Text description provided by the architects. Villa Mondoukou is a 275m2 house completed in 2023, located near Mondoukou in Ivory Coast. This project is a collaboration between Remy Aznar and William Tailly.
It’s a holiday house for a couple in the province of Mondoukou, about a hundred kilometers from Abidjan. It is surrounded by vast palm trees and with close access to the Gulf of Guinea’s beach. The house has a central tropical rock garden; all the walls are made of earth and limestone, and traditional workers near Assinie, Ivory Coast craft a central bamboo roof. The walls are finished with more; the varying shades of earth and lime serve as the only ornamentation of the house. Local artisans skillfully crafted low-cost materials such as earth, lime, and bamboo to construct this house.
Everything else is a play of levels in the spatial sequences of the house: You enter through a raised slab between two walls, and then you access the living room, still supported by this slab. This living room provides access to the patio with a bamboo roof, creating a skylight.
This patio leads to two independent bedrooms. To reach the master bedroom, you must take the stairs in the entrance «fault.» This fault leads us to a direct view of the sea. On the right is a tropical bathroom, and on the left is a bedroom that allows us to see the bamboo roof drawing the horizon.
