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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 by trees which have an embedded social and poli!cal importance following poli!cal ac!vist wangari maathai’s green belt movement in the country, which began in 1977. set in a lush and leafy neighborhood, the embassy’s footprint circumvents the site’s exis!ng trees, while the building itself is topped with a green roof — further integra!ng it into its bucolic context.
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a perimeter wall, a safety provision mandated by the brief, turned out to be the star"ng point of the embassy’s design — merging the enclosure of the site, with interior programing. ‘the building itself grows seamlessly out of this enclosing wall, which spirals into the middle of the site, culmina!ng in a split-level arrangement of rooms at the center,’ explains roeoesli & maeder (h"ps://www.roeoesli-maeder.ch/). ‘a slight gradient of the ground further enhances the split level arrangement, with each of the offset floors containing different func!ons.’
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each of the offset floors contain different func!ons image © fabio idini (h"ps://www.movieandclick.it/)
a slight gradient of the ground enhances the split level arrangement image © fabio idini (h"ps://www.movieandclick.it/)
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the building is surrounded by trees which have an embedded social and poli!cal importance image © iwan baan (h"ps://iwan.com/)
the perimeter wall turned out to be the star!ng point of the embassy’s design image © iwan baan (h"ps://iwan.com/)
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the structure is topped with a green roof image © iwan baan (h"ps://iwan.com/)
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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 that captures the Kenyan way of life, our social values and poli!cal symbolism. Kudos Switzerland, maybe you should now open up Swiss bank branches in Kenya, we got some loot to stash :-).
Lameck Nyandusi Ondieki jun 05, 2018
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