For Antti LOVAG, nature must not be lived only by the look behind an opening.
And if the lovagian habitation is built for the use of its inhabitants, it is singularly linked to the site.
It is this form of union which makes the lovagian habitat.

 

 

 Mineral osmosis  


Participation of a rocky ground to the construction of partitions or grounds :

the habitation integrates the site.
Ex. • a partition rests on a flagstone or a rock.
Ex.
an inside paving goes out to correct the rocky failures of the terrace.

the site integrates the habitation.
Ex. • erratic rocks stand in the builded.
Ex. • an unflat stone extends inside.

paroi   bassin

 

 

 

The partition stands on an overflowing rock which separates the natural neighbouring in two small gardens.

 

The clearing between prominent rocks has permitted an overflowing from the swimming pool in a basin which reflects the habitation, feet in the water.
Note the humour of these feet lightened by a finition in stainless tube

 
cohabitation   paroi

 

 

 

Cohabitation between mineral, vegetal and built.

 

The partition steps over the rock and rests on it

 

 

 

 Vegetal osmosis  


"Hanging gardens" gush from the "roof" hollows.
Vegetal sheets wrap up certain hulls, kept away, to facilitate the fresh air circulation during summer; the foliage is either deciduous or persistent.

bacs à plantes
 
jardins suspendus

 

Hanging gardens : vegetal sheets dress the built and link the ground to the "roof".

 

 

 

 

 
jardins suspendus

 

Hanging gardens : blossoming periodically modify the image of certain accesses.

 

 

 Water, image and sound 


Water is inside and outside.
Water meanders between stones, similar to the man steps. Water which rustles in "cascatelles" in the patio or the hothouse and water which resounds outside, from troughs to basins, "silencing" inopportune noises. The rain which drums on the skydome.
The swimming pool which freshens the summer air...
There are so many waters to invite to live better

 

 

Nature cohabits with the user. In the access corridor to the private spaces, openings (inside oculus with no glass) offer elevated views and low-angle musics: plants, rocks, rivulet.

 

 

 

The overflowing swimming-pool water runs out, rustling, in troughs down to the lower basin : the flow adjustment modulates the sound volume and gums out, at certain time, the environment noises.

 

 

 

 

 

 Light and view 


The pleasures of the view on the open sea are well-known but oculus and skydome innovate.
To the near and intimate (a quiet tree) side-glance, the oculus knows how to add field-glasses (a far wavelet, lost in the immenseness, suddenly living nearly to be touched) : a magic power to see differently.
And if the skydome lights the inside "as outside", it knows how to make more for curious people.. From the first lights to the last, light runs on the hull in the opposite direction. Clouds parade and stars cover it; drops burst on it and splash in the whole bedroom. Unstable snow diffuses, for some time, a pearlescent light.

 

 

 Man and habitat


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The man, it's five senses and an "affect", feelings, emotions...
To the already mentionned lovagian attentions, must be added less apparent numerous details : from a concealed hole to evacuate washing waters from the ground to the one used for the aspiration of dust, from the electric light integrated in the well for the end of the day to the well/aquarium of which the water, disturbed by a fish gives life to reflects on the inferior table, from the quoin softener to the spherical, swiveling or rolling chimney, and so on...

> The man, it's also a being who moves in space and time as nature moves with hours, seasons, years...
The lovagian habitation sometimes has "corks" in possible preludes for recesses or carbuncles, furnished spaces, corridors ... to come.
A shop of used beams, chimneys, tiles, furniture ... will soon sell equiped modules. A hire-purchase shop proposes costumes, cars, mobile homes as so many skins to leave in it will soon supply new or used modules.
Habitation widens for the time of a feast, of the education of a child, of the accomodation of an "ancestor" or friends ... then comes back to the initial intimate serenity.

To summarize if, to the eyes of a rushing man, the lovagian habitat is only observed for its roundnesses and its mobilities, the more curious passer-by will find numerous attentions for the user and for the site.