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May 2 • 5 tweets • 4 min read
At 27 Square Metres, this house is 7.4 times smaller in footprint than the size of a typical house of a middle class family in Kenya

Can be built in 1 week

The size of the family has significantly reduced, but we are still building bigger houses

Q. Is it time to #ThinkSmall? ImageImageImage
Once you lock down the Spirit of a Place, the size doesn't matter.

Can you enjoy borrowed views?
Are all bodily functions met?
Does every user have a space to be themselves? (Bed, Shower, Sit)

The rest is fashion and politics.

#GeniusLoci
✍🏿🏗 Necessity first. Luxury next ImageImage
"This house tries to take charge of these questions, not as an absolute answer, but as a housing exercise that is willing to face the various and constant frictions between spaces, inhabitants and objects."

-@Arquine

I like this idea. Image
Notes on #GeniusLoci

"Even in the smallest house, not only the adults, but every child can have at least a small place to call his own."- Christopher Alexander

A curtain is enough between the alcove and the greater common room. Like in Jefferson's Room

400 Sq. Ft is about 37.16Sm

#ThinkSmall

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May 3
Today I am glad I helped 2 friends dodge a bullet.

In short, we will redesign a house they had to a reasonable size.

Initially,the Master Bedroom was 10 metres long. If you are not careful, you can be made to carry burdens you cannot afford for 15 years straight

#MjengoMaths
Look. You don't need a 350 square metres house as your First Build.

Even 250 Square Metres is too generous.

What else can you do with extra Kes. 5 million?

1. Use a house as a ladder to your Financial Goals.
2. Solve for what you need.

You don't prove anything by stressing.
I wish I could catalogue all the major estates in Nairobi and indicate the overall floor areas

They will all cluster between 70 square metres and 150 square m

In theory, it doesn't sound like this. In practice, one can live just a good life in 100 square metres.

See Japan.
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May 2
How to retire effectively with your friends on 1 to 5 Acres and do what you wish.

Or.

A Survival and Wealth Creation Thread.

Or.

How to reduce the tension between You and Your Landlady if you have two trustworthy friends. 😂

1/n.

#SketchItBuildIt
#FreedomWork
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Early last year when I realized land was very cheap in Rural Kenya,

I did this tiny sketch at the back of a book I was reading 📚.

This is based on 1 acre. About 105m long by 42m.

The 3 eighth plots at the bottom are the living quarters and 1 to 6 are commercial.

#GoRural ImageImage
How to Plan 5 Acres for Self-sufficiency.

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May 1
When you take a set of say 6 rules you respect and internalise.

You suddenly become very aware when you violate the boundaries.
This idea is dangerous because authorship can be erased without consequence.

The rules just need to give you a clear relatable model of understanding the world.

Soon, they become second nature.
These few rules are like a boundary wall against the errors of human nature.

The picture here is that of keeping snakes outside that boundary.

It is true that which says, "And whoever breaks through a wall will be bitten by a serpent."
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Apr 24
How to Build a Comfortable Big House Slowly starting with Kes. 1m and a piece of land.

This comes from lessons learnt over the last 15 years and building my own house.

Or

"How to proceed from Necessity to Luxury."

1/n

#SketchItBuildIt
#Consult
#DesignBuild
#BuildSlowly
Step 01. Vision.

Building is Sacrifice. Be driven by a Vision that is greater than a pile of stones

This can be to create a home for your children (we fight harder when fighting for others)

This can be to cut off that annoying Landlady. You run faster when running from Poverty
I did not start building until I saw a composition written by my son. In it was embedded an infectious Bigger Vision

It switched something in me and I woke up

Prior, I was OK building for others. And fighting that necessary monthly nonsense of Tenancy

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Apr 7
How to reduce the Cost of a Typical Maisonette by 40% through Design Thinking.

A Short Thread. 🧵
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#SketchItBuildIt
#Bungalow vs. #Maisonette
#DesignBuild
#PracticeNotes
#Costing

ub.co.ke
Rationale:

The most common reasons people build Maisonettes are

1. To have less footprint on the ground.
2. To afford family members a common room upstairs
3. To fit the hype of a neighbourhood.
4. The aesthetic of Maisonettes is attractive.
5. To enjoy better views beyond.
The most important factor that affects the overall cost of a building is the Size.

Size is everything. From it are all costs resultant, from Consultancy Fees to Finishing Costs

One can fulfill optimum cost by reducing the most expensive part of a Maisonette : The Upper Floor
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Sep 1, 2021
Revisited: How to Build A 3 Bedroom House Slowly using the 52 Week Challenge.

This article is good but has one fatal flaw.

I will try to explain it in my new understanding of #TheGoodLife

✍🏿📐🏡🕯
ub.co.ke/index.php/2021…
The beginning point of all to-build decisions should be, "Why?"

Not how many rooms.

Because the most important part of the house is the person and their spirit which inhabits and reflects on the material world (Interiors, Allocation of space, Function and Size of spaces etc)
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I love using the example of the lowly because it covers everyone up the status rank.

Q. If i were a Cobbbler, how would i build my first house?

I would not declare it MUST be a 3 bedroom house. That would be a fatal mistake.

I would probably wish for a big tree to sit under.
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