Developing Successful House Plans in Kenya

House plans in Kenya are available in numerous typologies and designs. Each example of house designs have particular areas of reference and emphasis, depending on the end user who is going to occupy these houses. It worth noting that house designs can be obtained from various sources, whether from old plans from another project, or [...]

Designing House Plans; The Kenyan Architect Tasks at Inception Stage

The Kenyan architect is faced with several challenges in meeting client’s objectives while designing house plans in Kenya. Clients are increasingly more exacting in their preferences for their dream home, and demand higher professionalism from building consultants. The architect therefore must carry out thorough procedures at the onset of the design to ensure that everything [...]

The Kenyan Architect – The PreContract Stage Process

The Kenyan architect follows a generally standardized process of undertaking a project, especially when building in Kenya.  As each profession is governed by a code of practice that defines how things should be done in it, so it is with the profession of architecture in Kenya. This article delves into the stages that one is [...]

Tips for the Kenyan Architect – Principles of Design

One of the most important tenets of design for the Kenyan architect is that their building design needs to offer the best design solutions available at a given time.  All this must be offered within a particular context, and the project must demonstrate a keen sense of usability in its creation. […]

The process of building in Kenya.

Building in Kenya has been continually improved from previous periods to date. There has been marked growth of the technology available to developers, and the resultant spurt of growth in the real estate sector attests to this. Kenyan architects as well as other construction professionals have enjoyed a boom in the construction sector. One of [...]

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