Palais Honoria, Tour Simona, Villa Troglodyte … Jean-Pierre Lott puts his foot down on the Principality
At the origin of many projects in the Principality, including the famous Villa Troglodyte or the Palais Honoria which will be inaugurated soon, the Parisian architect Jean-Pierre Lott has shaped part of Monaco in his image.
He will never get tired of it. “Monaco is very graphic, breath Jean-Pierre Lott, who has kept the ancestral technique of hand drawing. The Principality is an exceptional site, favorable to a white architecture, so much the play of shadows and lights are present and caress the buildings. The sun, the sea, the mountains, it’s magnificent. ”
Renowned Lot architect in Paris, Jean-Pierre started with JB PASTOR & Fils before 2010. The story of an unexpected meeting. “At the end of a conference I held, Patrice Pastor asked me if I would do a project for him. He liked my job and I used to do projects in Marseille and in the South of France. It all started from there. ”
In 2010, Jean-Pierre Lott’s first project was inaugurated, the Ni Box, a leisure complex for young people (which will soon be demolished to make way for a new building complex). Before the inauguration of the impressive Simona Tower (photo on top) in 2013. “The Simona Tower is unique, for its urban location, he specifies. It is built on a park, in a complete perspective that goes from the mountain to the sea with the city in the middle. ”
Today, nearly seven projects have been carried out by the Parisian architect. The Simona Tower therefore, but also Le Stella, Villa Roccabella, Ni Nox, Les Cigognes, Villa Troglodyte and Palais Honoria, which will be inaugurated in early 2023 with 65 state-owned accommodation equipped with fully equipped kitchens and a nursery. And among these constructions, one of them attracted particular attention. This is the unique Villa Troglodyte.
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“This villa got a lot of attention. It is an extraordinary project. The idea was to make a house that fits into the landscape and that does not impose itself on it. This villa is also an environmental laboratory where efficient energy saving systems are implemented, explains Jean-Pierre Lott. There is solar energy, geothermal energy, wastewater is collected for watering and sanitation. And all the materials selected, from floors to paintings, are labeled. The insulators are in Liège for example. ”
An innovative project that is part of the series of constructions imagined by Jean-Pierre Lott, which should still lead to other constructions in the years to come. “I had to take care of the Mougins Town Hall, but the project was abandoned because of the Covid-19. In Monaco, I am used to carrying out my projects one by one and not simultaneously. “ The Parisian architect’s next project should therefore be announced once the Palais Honoria is inaugurated. Be patient !