Month: May 2013

Green building materials available for residential houses in Kenya are as below. 1. Green roof. The roof can be designed to incorporate live plant material. 2. Green walls. The exterior walling and fencing can be designed to incorporate green plants such as creeping ivy. Wall support for flower pots and planters can be introduced to…

For small plots such as the usual 50 x 100 ft or 1/8th acre plots, maisonettes are good in terms of reducing the horizontal spread hence freeing up the ground floor space to enable a lawn. Assuming a 200m2 luxurious maisonette, the plinth area on the ground can be 60m2 then the building stretches upwards…