Excerpt: Villa Mondoukou by Aznar + Tailly is a holiday house surrounded by palm trees and has access to the Gulf of Guinea’s beach. The house features a tropical rock garden, earth and limestone walls, and a bamboo roof crafted by traditional workers. The walls, with their shades of lime and earth, are the only ornamentation in the house, whereas the spatial sequences of the house display a play of levels.
Project Description
[Text as submitted by architect] 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. 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 there is a central bamboo roof crafted by traditional workers near Assinie, Ivory Coast.
The walls are finished with moire; the varying shades of earth and lime serve as the only ornamentation of the house. Low-cost materials such as earth, lime, and bamboo, skillfully crafted by local artisans, were used in the construction of 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 covered with a bamboo roof, creating a skylight.
This patio leads to two independent bedrooms. To reach the master bedroom, you have to take the stairs located 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.
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