The Seasons | Kroakney, Ivory Coast
An ‘urban-sized’ residential project.
The Seasons is an unconventional residential project comprising a multi-functional villa with contemporary interiors, a garden, a mosque, a pool, and a basketball court. Raising on a large, unoccupied hilly area that slopes towards the sea, the project blurs the lines between urban and residential.
The project - curated by architect Mirco Monti, principal and founder of Dakar-based MOST Studio - is based on three simple principles: sea view, division of space and privacy. The Seasons is nested on a slope between an urban district of the city of Kroakney in Ivory Coast, and, on the other side, the beach. The main building is a multifunctional villa stretching in parallel with the seafront in order to provide maximise exposure to the sea.
The Seasons' 7,000 sqm is quite a peculiar size: "residential or urban?” Indeed, the project has been conceived as a small, self-sufficient ecosystem centred around a 2,000 sqm villa on two levels.
The villa is divided into three layers. A more external white volume with slits houses the guest room, the bathrooms, the cinema room, and the studio. The second layer is a sandwiched, open-air tropical garden bringing light and ventilation into the house. The latter hosts the living and dining rooms and kitchen, the family area, the office and the five bedrooms on the first floor.
The furnishings include the Lovely Day and Monopoli sofas, the Lacoon, Avi and Nest Soft armchairs by Desiree, and the children's room by Zalf.
