Guy Rottier's Villa Arman

Felicori, Bianca [UCL]

Published on "Domusweb", 28 February 2022. In Vence, France, a 1968 house dug into the ground, with a spider web shaped hammock, a retractable table and a rooftop garden, was the culmination of years of research on the mimetic house. Rottier brings us back to the points of connection between architecture and other disciplines (art in particular, but anthropology, sociology, philosophy as well), of utopian and dystopian visions of living, but above all of reconciliation between the design experience and that of everyday life, made up of experience, feelings and life. In the Villa Arman, Guy Rottier translates years of research on the mimetic house into a three-dimensional building.