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28.08.18, 11(03roeoesli & maeder completes new swiss embassy in nairobi, kenya
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lucerne-based firm roeoesli & maeder has completed switzerland’s new embassy in nairobi, kenya’s(h!ps://www.designboom.com/tag/architecture-in-kenya/) capital and largest city. the building is surrounded bytrees which have an embedded social and poli!cal importance following poli!cal ac!vist wangari maathai’s greenbelt movement in the country, which began in 1977. set in a lush and leafy neighborhood, the embassy’s footprintcircumvents the site’s exis!ng trees, while the building itself is topped with a green roof — further integra!ng it intoits bucolic context.
roeoesli & maeder integrates new swiss embassy into leafy nairobi neighborhood
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internally, the lobby, which serves as the building’s central hub, connects the different areas of the embassy. thespace also provides a visual connec!on to the outside world, furthering the embassy’s rela!onship with its naturalse$ng. the building’s faceted, polygonal geometry — a direct result of the desire to maintain prominent trees — isunified by concrete walls with a dyed red colora!on, (a tone that resembles the iron oxide found in the local soil).
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project info: compe""on (open procedure): 2011realiza"on: october 2014 – august 2016loca"on: embassy of switzerland (h"ps://www.eda.admin.ch/nairobi), nairobi, kenya
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philip stevens I designboom jun 05, 2018
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very though%ul design. As a Nairobian, I really appreciate the deliberate effort to put up the embassy in a design thatcaptures the Kenyan way of life, our social values and poli!cal symbolism. Kudos Switzerland, maybe you should nowopen up Swiss bank branches in Kenya, we got some loot to stash :-).
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plot area: 4,046 sqmfootprint: 770 sqmusable area: 1,512 sqmmain usable area: 849 sqmvolume as per SIA 116: 6,120 m3photography: iwan baan and fabio idini client: swiss conferdera!on, federal office for building and logis!cs FOBL project manager: jodok brunner client’s representa"ve in nairobi: bautop 2001 (h"ps://www.bautop-2001.ch/) collabora"on: rené häni architect: ro.ma. roeoesli & maeder gmbh (h"ps://www.roeoesli-maeder.ch/), dipl. architekten eth bsa collabora"on: chris!an maeder, philipp röösli, adrian rogger local architect: DMJ architects (h"p://www.daginterna!onal.com/Dmj_Web/HOME.html)collabora"on: simon johnson project management: mentor management ltd. (h"ps://www.mmlea.com/) collabora"on: andrew ward, lawrence mureithi landscape architect: concrete jungle (h"p://www.junglescaper.com/) collabora"on: bruce hobson civil engineer: BG ingenieure und berater AG (h"p://www.bg-21.com/en/homeo'g) (zürich) collabora"on: markus pieper civil engineer: metrix integrated consultancy (h"p://www.metrix.co.ke/)collabora"on: khalid alkizim MEP engineer: BG ingenieure und berater AG (h"p://www.bg-21.com/en/homeo'g) collabora!on: maxime raemy, benoît müller MEP engineer: EAMS ltd. consul!ng engineers (h"p://www.eams-consultants.co.ke/)collabora"on: gordon schofield
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