African Design Magazine October 2016 | Page 54

WHISPERED A Sometimes architecture is as simple as a sigh, yet portent like the cause of the sigh. It takes a particular process, an integral compounded and laboured effort to realize something like that... therein lies the irony. When opinion and fact are blurred and sentiments reserved, albeit later shared. That is perhaps what the Dalton House in Kilifi, Kenya’s secondary coastal town gently whispers, with white washed walls and controversial modernity, perhaps an attempt at taking the Swahili typology a step further, a personal interpretation not necessarily by the book. F rom three acres of land, the area situated betwee the coral cliff, and the ba explains architect Alber house opens to the India floor and coincides with ground floor. This positi of the sea and the back o natural ventilation on th where the weather is hu The project idea begins on following from the low level, where the entran the mangrove, to the platform situat matching the cliff. In this high part o Originally feature on www.archidatum.com. See the original post HERE