Montleuze

On the wooded heights of Villefranche-sur-Mer, along the Chemin du Mont Leuze, twenty villas step down through a pine forest. For Mont Leuze Investissement, the studio is leading their complete renovation and the creation of a shared swimming pool, as architect and site supervisor: tender documents, then oversight of the works.

Each villa is reworked room by room: façades opened up, terraces and waterproofing redone, heating, plumbing and electrical systems laid out anew. One of them gains a full storey, some have façades in natural stone; where the façades open widely, the walls are strengthened with reinforced ties, the site lying in a seismic zone. As the local planning rules require, the pool takes on deep tones rather than bright blue.