URBAN HOUSING
CLIENT Neo Developers SITE Green Park astride Nairobi River 1Kilometre from the Central Business District BRIEF Design 10 3bedroom and 10 2bedroom apartment units. Provide a gym, sauna, swimming pool, 30 parking spaces and a club house DESIGN SOLUTION Provide houses that maximize on exterior living to cool the mind after a long hard day's work of being enclosed by office walls -Provide tenants with lavish residential units that rival commercial holiday villas -Create a beautiful and sustainable living environment -Encourage social interaction among neighbors FEATURES -Extensive balconies -Common staircases for tenants -Sculptural restaurant area -Parking under pergola to minimize creation of heat islands -Pergola covered with passion fruit. A source of inexpensive fruit supply for residents -Health club carved into steep riverbank -Jogging track along perimeter of site -Open playing field for children -Subsistence vegetable garden to promote urban dome
