VILLA SCURI · VILLA ROCCIA

BY MUA – ARCHITECTURE & PLACEMAKING · PLOT D2 · D3

The architects

MUA – Architecture & Placemaking is a Tbilisi office with more than ten years of experience in architecture, urban and spatial design. Its founding partners are Gogiko Sakvarelidze, who co-founded Studio Rooms and Architects of Invention, and Devi Kituashvili, founder and brand director of Fabrika Tbilisi. MUA’s aim is human-centred, bespoke design that turns spaces into places, with projects in Georgia, Armenia, the UAE, Albania and Germany, clients including Hilton, Rotana, Holiday Inn and Silk Road Group, and partners such as Chapman Taylor, Arup and Buro Happold.

Studio website · mua.ge

Two villas, one garden logic

MUA designs from the inside out: the lake and the open landscape guide houses that feel open yet stay private. The concept comes as two villas side by side on plots D2 and D3, sharing one garden logic: hedges to the street, planted terraces and courtyards between the rooms.

Villa Scuri

A compact three-level house whose upper floor is a timber-clad box with pivoting screens. The ground floor holds the living, dining and kitchen space, a study and a guest bedroom opening onto an 81 m² terrace; four bedroom suites sit above around a central void, with the garage and service rooms below.

Villa Roccia

A low house of board-formed concrete around a 42 m² planted inner courtyard. Four bedroom suites, a study and the garage are on the ground floor; the living, dining and kitchen space and a fifth bedroom are upstairs, with two terraces on the green roofs totalling 168 m².

Rammed earth, concrete and timber

The material board sets four materials, rammed earth, board-formed concrete, pigmented concrete and timber slats, in colours that come from the ground of the site itself. Concrete gives Villa Roccia its solid, earthy base, timber slat screens wrap the upper volume of Villa Scuri, and courtyards and green roofs carry the landscape into both houses.

At a glance

Architect: MUA – Architecture & Placemaking · Gogiko Sakvarelidze · Devi Kituashvili
Location: The Lake, Lisi Lake, Tbilisi
: Villa Scuri; Villa Roccia
Land plot: D3 · 1,001 m²; D2 · 1,001 m²
Total area: 523 m²; 573 m²
Indoor area: 390 m²; 365 m²
Terraces: 81 m²; 168 m²
Inner courtyard: —; 42 m²
Garage: 52 m²; 40 m²
Bedrooms: 5; 5
Levels: 3; 2

Features

Rammed earth
Board-formed concrete
Timber slat screens
Green-roof terraces
Planted inner courtyard
Hedged street front

On the masterplan ↓ · Plans & areas ↓

On the masterplan

Villa Roccia (D2) and Villa Scuri (D3) sit side by side in row D of the lower block, next to Villa Fiore.

This villa
The villa collection
Lake House by Snøhetta

Plans & areas

Room areas in m², as given on the architects’ concept drawings. All figures are indicative at concept stage.

Villa Scuri · Level −1−3.00
Garage	52 m²
Storage	8 m²
Laundry	5 m²
Technical room	5 m²

Villa Scuri · Level 0±0.00
Living and dining	74 m²
Kitchen	37 m²
Study	22 m²
Hall	18 m²
Bedroom	18 m²
Storage	6 m²
WC	6 + 5 m²
Terrace	81 m²

Villa Scuri · Level +1+3.30
Bedrooms	23 + 22 + 17 + 16 m²
Wardrobes	10 + 10 + 6 + 6 m²
Bathrooms	4 × 5 m²
Circulation	56 m²

Villa Roccia · Level 0±0.00
Bedrooms	23 + 20 + 19 + 18 m²
Study	15 m²
Hall	15 m²
Circulation	57 m²
Wardrobes	7 + 5 m²
Bathrooms (five)	29 m²
Storage, technical, laundry	8 + 6 + 6 m²
Inner courtyard	42 m²
Garage	40 m²