Four Houses for Four Brothers, Machakos, Kenya
A thatched roof, contemporary design, organic forms and a central fireplace.
Four Houses for Four Brothers, Machakos, Kenya
A thatched roof, contemporary design, organic forms and a central fireplace.
A very special, Machakos-based client asked Urko Sanchez Architects to develop a house which featured, mainly, a thatched roof and contemporary architecture. Accordingly, our team did a tremendous amount of investigative research on thatched roofing in South Africa where there is copious experience in building this type of resourceful, eco-friendly covering. We gained a lot of expertise in the features, benefits and recent enhancements of this particular roofing technique in order to render “Four Houses for Four Friends” a comfortable, classic, yet cutting-edge reality. We also proceeded to develop a floor plan for the home in which all of the rooms basically view the beautiful hills at the front of the plot, in the direction of faraway Lukenya, Thika. A double-storey living room and the strong presence of a ceramic, pot-bellied chimney in the center of it all provide a natural, “living” presence in this Machakos residence.
Location
Machakos, Kenya
Year
2012
Client
Private
Area
650m2 x 4
Collaborators
Marcos Velasco, Eric Lindenberg, Ranjit Singh
Renders
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Photos
Javier Callejas
Status
Completed
