This is the one. An apartment block in Africa, designed by an architect working in Africa, using Swahili moucharabiah screens that filter sunlight and pull sea breezes through every floor, built with coral stone, local timber lattices and terrazzo by artisans from Mombasa and Lamu. No imported facade system. No sealed glass curtain wall. A building that knows exactly where it is.
Tudor Apartments. Tudor Creek, Mombasa, Kenya. Urko Sanchez Architects. 14 apartments. 2017.
The moucharabiah screen wrapping the entire facade is not decorative. It is the climate system. It filters direct sunlight before it hits the glass, allows cross ventilation from the creek breezes through every apartment, and creates the kind of shaded interior environment that a sealed concrete box with air conditioning running twenty-four hours is trying and failing to replicate at three times the energy cost. The coral stone cladding, the hand-carved wooden lattices, the terrazzo floors were all executed on site by artisans from Mombasa and Lamu.
This is an African building, on African land, built with African craft, solving an African climate problem. It exists. It is standing. And most of what goes up around it in Mombasa today looks nothing like it.
We have the materials. We have the tradition. We have the artisans. What we keep choosing instead is the concrete box with the tiny windows.
📍 Tudor Apartments, Tudor Creek, Mombasa, Kenya Architect: Urko Sanchez Architects Photography: Javier Callejas
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@cenas_j Umetumia ratio gani mkuu??
1:1.5:3 or 1:1:2, naelewa ni volume , if its one bucket, the same bucket for all , sio one bag if cement equals one wheelbarrow of sand or ballast😃
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On the fire incident at Utumishi Girls, you realise that most school buildings are designed & built like prisons instead of anticipating situations like fire outbreak by incorporating multiple ladders unblocked exits, outwards-opening doors, fire-resistant building materials like EPS and automated fire suppression systems.. Fire outbreak preparedness is still in pits.
The 4 P's of fire safety are a foundational framework used by emergency services and safety organizations to save lives: Prevention, Planning, Protection, and Practice/Preparedness but our kids are not trained on how well to handle situations like this. All the factors mentioned in the previous paragraph aren't anything if the kids aren't taught to use them. Thats still missing also in our education system.
Lastly, this school is associated with the Kenya Police and is next-door to Gilgil Military barracks. Unfortunately from the look of things, both lack preparedness to handle such situations. The bare minimum is atleast to have fire fighters in such camps for emergency purposes.
The Arsenal trophy 'landed' at JKIA from London in the company of one mzungu, received by tens of backstreet clubs bouncers dressed in Gikomba sunglasses as security to the mzungu and the precious trophy.
The trophy and the unidentified mzungu were accorded first class reception with a convoy of SUVs, outriders and police escorts. The thousands at Archives believed that this is the trophy that Arsenal had in London!
This level of BRAINWASHING is what we must fight as Africans. This is silent neo-colonialism at play! Even those wazungus back in London are busy laughing at us wherever they are!
Gentlemen, standing before you is none other than Mpenzi Chokuu a.k.a Malaya kwa Ubora Wake. From a distance, any sane man would think this is a fine, soft-spoken slayqueen imported directly from Seychelles for bwana Kasongo. But behold, Chokuu is a man with a Fully matured Makagare, na inasemekana amebeba muzinga hapana machesoo.
Chokuu was once an ordinary hustler in Kisumu doing construction jobs. But as you all know, mjengo life is harder than passing a sobriety test after a weekend in Juja. Today you’re carrying cement, tomorrow the foreman is insulting your entire bloodline because you misplaced one brick.
When life became unbearable, our boy packed his small bag, two jeans, one Arsenal jersey, and dreams of survival, then headed straight to Mombasa to become a beach boy. One afternoon while applying sunscreen on tourists & pretending to know German, Chokuu was approached by an elderly mzungu man who had retired from Ikus and upgraded to team Sundus.
The old man flashed some euros. Chokuu looked at the money, looked at his economic situation, looked at his sitting apparatus and said “Wamuthede ni fire si fire.” Our boy accepted the deal at a lightning speed. He told himself one small trip to Dogo Kundu area wouldn’t hurt compared to the suffering of maisha ya hustler.
But my brothers, what started as survival slowly became a full-time profession. Chokuu became so dedicated to customer service that the old mzungu decided the young man deserves a promotion. Next thing you know, his visa was approved!
From carrying simiti in Kisumu to becoming an international export in Germany. Immigration officers approved his Visa very fast because of his Occupation as an Advanced Backside Consultant,, Chesaa!!
Unfortunately, life is unpredictable. Six months later, the old mzungu kicked the famous bucket and went to meet his ancestors in Sayuni. Chokuu was left stranded in Germany with no sponsor, no plan, and rent waiting like a hungry landlord in Mukuru kwa Njenga.
But our boy refused to go back to poverty. He simply said If life gives you lemons, upgrade the business model.
He went for hormonal injection to lower his testosterone, did a BBL procedure to increase mafrrrrrrmbanya & did a plastic surgery to install silicone boobs. Our boy transformed so much that men now lose concentration immediately he passes.
Today Chokuu is one of the most outsourced trans Milaya in Germany. Appointments are fully booked like NTSA during driving test season. Men are spending euros left and right thinking they found a premium European babe, only to discover they’re dealing with a former Site operator wa Kisumu affordable housing Phase 2.
Lemme tell you Maina, this Kasongo economy has forced many people to change careers… but Chokuu changed departments, operating system, and even motherboard. Aki ya Mungu hii ni mambo Kanii. Anyway, kama kawa siku zote sisi walala hoii hatuna maoni, Letu Jicho tu.👀