Photographs showing the work done to the shop prior to opening.

Recently I was approached to create survey drawings of a Hotel in Shela.

Whilst conducting the survey, I was occupied with recording the quantity of space in order to create measured drawings .

But as I was measuring the spaces and occupying/travelling through...

I was approached to undertake the renovation of Umma House in Lamu. The client wanted the works to be cost efficient and in keeping with the Lamu methods of construction. 

Before the intervention some time was dedicated to the testing of an appropriate whitewash. By app...

Picture by Sandy Bornman of Aman Lamu.

We tend to proceed in life idealising the things we hold most dear, rendering them in a state of impossible perfection. With time, we begin to realise how this idealised version is misinformed and then begins the process of reconciling ideals with reality. 

Similarly, p...

Changes

Someone recently told me, "everything happens for a reason".

I thought about what she said, maybe things do happen for a reason or, maybe things happen randomly and we attach reasons to it.

For the past 10 months I have been working in Lamu. I am doing a project (...

To my knowledge Lamu is the only Kenyan town with a historical square.

Generally speaking town squares are where a network of streets intersect and expand to create a larger civic space, a node. Mkunguni square, located infront of the Lamu fort is at the intersection of...

Vidaka a decorative niche in a swahili house use to store items of significance embellished with decorative lime plastering.

cham·fer

/(t)SHamfər/.

To cut away at a right-angled edge or corner to make a symmetrical sloping edge.

Chamfered edge of a stone building in Lamu. 

The urban patchwork of Lamu stone-town is composed of buildings that are sited roughly two metres apart. The streets be...