This bubble house “self-built” by an artist in 1975 is intended to be integrated into the landscape and its environment.
A soft and rounded atmosphere. A “bubble house” made in “self-construction” in 1975 by the artist Alban Blin is for sale on the specialized site Collectible Architecture for 3.45 million euros.
In the heart of the Mediterranean landscape, in the mountains overlooking Nice, this extraordinary house was designed to blend in with nature. It thus aims to be an “organic house”, whose architectural design intends to integrate human construction into its natural environment.
Shapes that fit into the environment
“This type of habitat is based on a search for harmony between human habitation and its environment,” continues the agency specializing in remarkable architecture of the 20th and 21st centuries.
“The masses of the building are integrated into the terrain and the landscape in a search for balance and symbiosis with nature.”
Located in La Gaude in the Alpes-Maritimes, the villa is perched on a rocky promontory which dominates a Mediterranean panorama. It has a living area of more than 400 m2, with a 500 m2 terrace with swimming pool and panoramic view of the rocky landscape and the mountains. All on 3 hectares of land.
-The different rooms of the house are built like so many small cells more or less nested within each other. Some of the furniture was also hand-crafted and is an integral part of the architecture.
Remove architects?
“It is part of the questioning that animated a small group of avant-garde architects in the 1960s and 1970s, notably the habitologist Antti Lovag, author of the Bernard house in Théoule-sur-Mer and the Gaudet house in Tourrette-sur-Loup”, explains the real estate agency.
The bubble house is an artisanal construction in which “curved walls and roofs form a single concrete shell”.
“The constructive principle of the bubble house, through its flexibility and simplicity of implementation, adapts without difficulty to a process of self-construction of one’s home,” continues the Architecture de collection agency. Antti Lovag notably actively defended the use of self-construction.
The real estate agency explains that, with his partner Marie-Claude Cuisin, he led courses to teach people interested in this type of housing to build their own house using sprayed concrete. According to the agency, he even defended a vision of construction without an architect, carried out by the user himself.
