The Rare houses They are unique. These houses have been put up for sale by the Real Estate Network Janssens Knight Frank. In the Luberon, two Interconnected Rare Houses And really labyrinthine illustrate the principle of Troglodite architecture. While the first troglodite house is 245 square meters, the second has two hundred, with seven bedrooms and six bathrooms, a garden on terraces, a formal garden and a pool. All this attached to the rock, omnipresent in the house.
Bathrooms, bedrooms and living rooms seem made of stone, which makes these Rare houses «An unusual property, very different from the other bastids and town houses that constitute most of our offer,» Immobilier Rudi Janssens, founder of Janssens Immobilier, explains. The house was quoted at almost four million euros. The authenticity of this house is worth it thanks to its peculiar design and all the benefit they took architects and designers of its architectural structure.
Stefano Frigieri
THE ORIGINS OF THE CAVA HOUSES
There are still some examples of troglodite homes in Europe, these unusual weird houses. In 2020, the architect Jean-Pierre Lott delivered an excavated house in the rock in the heights of Monaco, assuming the challenge of a structure anchored in the landscape, covered with rocks and leafy vegetation. In Slovenia, the Castillo de Predjama is the largest troglodite castle in the world, located at a half height of a 123 -meter cliff and built on the threshold of a huge cavity. Inside, rough stone walls They border the passages and rooms, remembering visitors who are both in a castle and in the body of a gigantic rock. On October 14, 1986, the program Rue des Collinesfiled by the INA, returned on the advantages of these natural structures, namely their bioclimatic appearance and their energy performance. Interviewed by journalists Jean Charles Trebbi, Jean Paul Loubes and Olivier Huet, the architect explains: “The plant cover provides good isolation against exterior noise, fire and inclement weather. It is also an architecture that allows to build in pronounced earrings. ” The troglodite houses have been very popular for several decades.