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
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