Designed in 2015 by Pascal Grasso Architectures, the Maison Le Cap is a private home located in Toulon, France.They are simple sky-reflecting concrete and glass cubes framed, or rather camouflaged by vegetation. All around, a typical Mediterranean landscape of steep rocks, thin strips of sand, few coves, water…All bathed in light.
Pascal Grasso conceived a spacious vacation home that reinvents outdoors living in perfect harmony with the environment – a contextual architecture designed as an adapted response to the surrounding geography, landscape, climate and light. His initial observations convinced Pascal Grasso to exploit the curve offered by the land, to play with terraces on various levels, to extend the existing dry-stone walls, yet adapting to the local sunny climate, as much as to the bad weather conditions and often-intense luminosity. The materials chosen echo to the coast’s mineral quality: raw concrete, stone, glass, stainless steel. Poured in formworks, the bottoms of which were layered with sanded wood boards, the surface of the raw concrete retained the motif for a peculiar texture.
