This year, Luna’s house, the Corsican project led by Jean-Nicolas Antoniotti, engineer and founder of “Renova et Demeures Corses”, and his team came from Riga and the Innovative Habitat Challenge 2025 with the gold medal awarded by a jury of 300 experts. A victory which is based on a vision which combines heritage transmission, digital innovation and entrepreneurial responsibility.
Behind this project, a family story
This project was born from the personal story of Jean-Nicolas Antoniotti. “ The house in my village, Vallica, dating from the 17th century, was in ruins, and that saddened me “, he confides. Touched by the sudden death of his brother Leonard, he felt invested with a moral obligation: that of preserving and promoting his village.
Owning a 500 year old family ruin nestled in the Ghjunsani Mountains in Haute-Balagne, Jean-Nicolas wanted above all to become actively involved in his village and erase the image of desolation associated with this heritage, particularly visible on Wikipedia pages. It was in homage to the memory of his brother that he embarked on this project, mobilizing his company and local talents to transform this building into an example of preservation and innovation.
Although the project Luna’s house started as a personal initiative, it quickly took on a collective dimension.
But first, a little retrospective. It was last July that a national delegation and 9 industrialists visited the village of Vallica, convinced of the potential of the project. Encouraged by this enthusiasm, Jean-Nicolas Antoniotti’s team decided to present the site to the FFB challenge.
The result? A gold medal won in October in Paris, among the three finalist projects out of around twenty preselected. A young Corsican engineer, Lesia Guardarian, from Paoli Tech, played a key role in its success. The project, completed in three months with only two project managers, impressed with its technical mastery and its use of a spectacular digital model.
Beyond innovation, a question of transmission
In addition to the dimension of innovation, it is the educational dimension and family, cultural and artisanal transmission that make Luna’s house a completely unique project. The family home, deeply rooted in the history of the village, represents a precious heritage for the community. The objective of this project is to pass on this heritage to future generations, while involving local artisans, but also students from the Paoli Tech engineering school in Corsica. In partnership with the establishment, House of Moon offered young students a concrete and enriching experience. J
Jean-Nicolas Antoniotti proudly recounts: “ Seeing a young 27-year-old engineer who carried out the project with us receive this gold medal on the national scene was immense satisfaction. »
