Home Town : Maseno FOR ME, ARCHITECTURE IS ABOUT SOLVING PROBLEMS THROUGH THE MANIPULATION OF SPACE TO EASEN THE LIVELIHOOD OF OCCUPANTS OF THAT SPACE.
EDUCATION
1 CERTIFICATE COURSE ON WORK ATHEIGHTS JULY2024
2 ONLINE CLASSES ON DESIGN OF SUSTAINABLE BUILDINGS ON 11TH-15TH JAN 2024
EXPERIENCE
Esteel Construction Ltd -P O Box 3713-00506, Nairobi Junior Project Manager from 14th July2024 - present
Responsibilities
-Logistics Management - Production of site logistics plans, temporary works designs, lifting plans, emergency evacuation plans, & steel fixing payment certificates
Esteel Construction Ltd -P O Box 3713-00506, Nairobi Internship from 22nd Jan-14th July 2024
Responsibilities
-Ensuring quality control and assurance at Icolo NBO2 construction site by keeping record of Inspection and test plans along with their signed checklists, approved material data records, and issuing approval and information requests to consultants
-Keeping record of drawings issued for construction by consultants
-Keeping a record of the updated procurement schedule and project quality plan
-Updating the site logistics plan, preparing lifting plans accompanying different planned works and preparing sketches accompanying Method statements
-Preparing and updating the emergency evacuation plans as part of Health, Safety and Environment best practices
-Keeping record of shop drawings, and in some instances preparing them
Domysuma Architects Ltd-P O Box 1665-30200, Kitale Internship from 10th July - 10th Oct 2023
Responsibilities
-2d drafting, 3d design and visualization
1 Arch Josephine wairimu Phone: +254735495076 Email: Josephine mwangi@jkuat ac ke 2. Arch. George Masinjila Phone: +254727962242
Email: masinjilarch@gmail com
3 John ojala
Phone: +254 725 848471
Email: Johnojala75@gmail.com
-Site visits and Supervision
-Conceptualization
City Hall-P O Box 30075-00100, Nairobi Attachment from 15th Jan - 15th March 2021
City Hall-P O Box 30075-00100, Nairobi Attachment from 5th May - 27th July 2019
Responsibilities
-2d drafting, 3d design and visualization
-Site visits and Supervision
-Conceptualization
Belfast Technical Services -P.O. Box 7004-40100, Kisumu. Attachment from 26th June - 22nd Sept 2017
-Supervision of and assisting in the construction of a church building's substructure in OtongloKisumu
The form metaphor borrows from the motion of a buterfly feeding on nectar from one flower to the next while simultaneously cross-pollinating them. This denotes interdependence between these two organisms
Facilities offered
1. Administration Offices
2. Eatery
3 Workshops
4. Bulk storage
5. Delivery Yard
6. Shops/ Kiosks
7. Parking
8. Exhibition Schematic model
The use of steel alongside other composites provides a quick option of erecting a robust structure within the shortest amount of time given the structural members are prefabricated with modulated parts.
Delivery yard perspective
Jua kaliLight Industry
Concepts
The design carefully channels and directs the traffic flow of traders and customers along the busy Kangundo road and around the New wakulima market nearby ensuring a steady customer-base and cash-flow Deriving its philosophy from interdependence, be it of people, activities, or structural details, this Jua kali design utilizes recycled steel shed structures to house different ammenities for its occupants
Entryway perspective
Social concepts of territoriality and privacy ensure that spaces are more private as one goes through the design. On the other hand, environmental concepts enable the appropriate orientation of structures and openings within the scheme for optimum use of natural forces such as sun, wind, and rainfall.
Spaces are planned uniformly around three outdoor open spaces (focal points) which act as nodes for interaction of people.
These focal points serve functions of outdoor display areas, sitting spaces and bulkoffloading areas
The workshops comprise stepped steel shed structures comourflaged behind a thick vegetative belt to reduce the amount of noise generated from within them.
Blow-up of Workshops
Industry
The workshop designs follow a unique order whose trussed roof support is external. This is a deliberate move to protect their structural integrity while also comparing their structural performance in case of fire emergencies to the common shed designs currently in use.
The workshop frontage includes a paved and recessed outdoor working and display area This increases the overall available working and display area while serving as a drainage basin for rainwater collected in the underground tank beneath
The details show the designer's attempt to improve the structure's fire resistance while communicating the design's philosophy of interdependence
Affordable Housing - Kalimoni
Designer : Jesse Odhiambo
Location : Kalimoni, Juja
Project size : 2,440 sqm
Design philosophy : Connectivity
Site layout plan
The general site comprises a 90 Acre piece of land that is subdivided into smaller parcels with different functions that are both interdependent and economically resourceful
Location plan
Facilities offered
1 Commercial building
2. Studio Apartments
3. One bedroom units
4. Two bedroom units
5 Three bedroom units
6. Shops/Kiosks
7. Outdoor seating
8.Play areas
9 Bicycle and car parking
Within a 1 acre parcel of land, highly densified and compact residential units are designed to ensure walkability and eyes on the street. This creates a vibrant community that is safe and encourages walking as a mode of transportation.
Aerial view
Affordable Housing
The housing units are organized around a central courtyard which acts as outdoor play areas for children and sitting/relaxation areas.
Inclusion of a single 7storey (highrise) building housing some higher income earners will serve to subsidize service charges for the rest of the scheme.
A web of interconnected footpaths serve to connect and channel pedestrian traffic through the affordable housing scheme from every corner to focal points within and around the scheme which act as points of commune.
Strict traffic control measures including chokers, narrowed accesses, pedestrian crossings, signages, clearly delineated pedestrian and vehicular routes alongside traffic lights are put in place to give precedence to the pedestrian over the motorist
Affordable Housing
Low-cost materials such as reflective mabati roofs and Extruded Polysterene panels are used to reduce construction time, and material westage during construction.
Dunga Hill Eco-resort
Designer : Jesse Odhiambo
Location : Kisumu
PROJECT OVERVIEW
Occupying both crest and foot of Dunga Hill along Dunga beach, the
Dunga Hill Eco-resort-Kisumu
The eco-resort's cottage design uses Ethylene Propylene Diene Monomer membranes on Oriented Strand Board panels anchored onto recycled steel structural lattices These structures are raised above ground on plinths enabling free airflow into deeper parts of the site.
These cottages have also been detailed for natural cross and stack ventilation while preventing moisture and heat building up within them This creates a thermally comfortable internal environment without the need for mechanical HVAC systems.
Hass Plaza building Facade Renovation
Location: along lower hill road
Proposed material sample finish to facade was a patterned concrete plaster with a strong color contrast.
