Month: August 2018
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Kinanie, Athi River, Machakos County. Housing Estate
WWW.A4ARCHITECT.COM Project: Development in Kenya, Nairobi. Client: Location: Kinanie, Athi River, Machakos County AUGUST 2018 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This is a project proposal for development on a 5.2 acre parcel of land situated at Kinanie, Machakos County. GATED COMMUNITY HOUSING Development has potential for gated community housing construction. The land can be subdivided into 70 plots…
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Buildings constructed next to rivers
Buildings constructed next to rivers According to the urban dictionary a river is a natural flowing watercourse, usually freshwater, flowing towards an ocean, sea, lake or another river. Development can drastically affect river banks and channels. Building very close to rivers have an inherent risk of flooding, making development unsustainable at times. development may disrupt river banks…
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Utawala Eastern Bypass Feasibility Study
WWW.A4ARCHITECT.COM Project: Development in Kenya, Nairobi. Client: Location: Utawala, Nairobi. AUGUST 2018 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY This is a project proposal for development on a parcel of land situated at Utawala, Nairobi. OPTIONS BASED ON ONE FLOOR LEVEL DEVELOPMENT Development has potential for 4 floor levels construction. The income can be scaled up per floor to…
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Two story Earthbag house
Two story Earthbag house Earthbag houses are a cheap alternative housing method that are created by filling bags with earth materials. These bags are made out of three main element earth, tubular bags and barbed wire. These are mostly done by the people planning on moving in, which unfortunately is very manually demanding. when adding…
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Malindi SeaView resort for Sale
Seaview Resort is situated along Malindi-Lamu Road, Malindi municipality, Kilifi County. It lies to the immediate north of Eden Rock Hotel, approximately 120 meters south east of African Pearl Hotel and a further 400 meters South of Woburn Residence. Malindi Central Business District is approximately 2 kilometers south of the property. (See appended location map…
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Musgum houses, Cameroon.
Musgum houses Musgum houses are sun dried clay huts that originating from Africa, the name Musgum comes from a northern province Cameroonian and Chadian tribe, they speak the language Musgu and live between the river Chari and Logne. The Musgum people from Cameroon construct their mud houses from compressed sun-dried mud. Earth is used as…
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Earthbag houses in south America
Earthbag houses in south America Earthbag houses are a cheap alternative housing method that are created by filling bags with earth materials. These bags are comprised of three main element earth, tubular bags and barbed wire. Different regions fill the bags with different or additional materials e.g. in Colombia earth bags are filled with plastic…