Eco-Friendly Dream House in Accra, Ghana Built By Ghanaian Architect Joe Osae Addo
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- čas přidán 5. 08. 2024
- "Unhappy with Accra’s concrete-block houses, the architect was determined to build with the materials found primarily in rural areas: timber and adobe mud blocks. “Adobe mud block doesn’t exist in cities in Ghana, which meant I had to create it,” says Osae-Addo. Furthermore, he didn’t want air-conditioning in a climate where the average temperature can approach 90 degrees, with humidity exceeding 90 percent (an idea that didn’t immediately fly with his soon-to-be wife).
“I wanted to explore ideas of light, cross ventilation, and lightness of structure,” Osae-Addo says of their one-story, 2,500-square-foot house. Arranged in an L-shape, with bedrooms and TV room in one wing and the kitchen and dining areas in the other, the house has a balcony wrapping around it, inspired by both colonial English bungalows and the courtyard plans of rural Ghanaian houses. “There are no internal corridors,” Osae-Addo says, “so rooms extend from one wall to the opposite wall, allowing for free flow of light and air. We are always moving from room to room. It’s a very intimate house.”
The design follows the “no air-conditioning” philosophy by raising the structure three feet off the ground on a wooden deck to take advantage of cooling under-floor breezes. For cross ventilation, the house has sliding slatted-wood screens that neighbors thought were crazy in the damp, hot climate, and floor-to-ceiling jalousie windows. The project was not without its challenges, including, Osae-Addo says, “the limitations of labor, availability of materials, environmental conditions, and being ready to adapt the original design.” He continues, “There was a temptation to give up on the original concept of adobe, because of the difficulty in making it ourselves. We achieved the near impossible of taking a relatively unskilled labor force and inspiring them to think differently and be open to new possibilities.” Though the house is on the grid, solar panels provide backup power for lighting and heating water, and deep timber overhangs provide ample shade."
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This is how Ghanaians should be building. Not from heat retaining concrete. This is a well thought out personal space utilising natural materials. We need more of this.
These blocks also trap moisture making a perfect breeding ground for mold. Rammed Earth is a building method that you should research .
Tropical modernism. It is called tropical modernism. Joe Osae Addo is phenomenal.
I saw this house on Apple TV’s show and have been OBSESSED ever since. So excited to see it again
I don’t have Apple TV but really wanna see the show!
In 2019 I stayed here for 3 weeks as an Airbnb. I'm an architect and was Sooo impressed at the sustainable Design features as soon as I entered the house.
In a few years, I will look into buying this house if it available.
It's also in a great neighborhood.
❤️ Loved the house❤️
Beautiful airbnb that I stayed in years ago, but the mosquitos ate me alive in the bedroom!!
Beautiful home. I'm a fan of the simplicity and materials. Blends well with the landscape.
I saw this house over a decade ago in Architectural digest online - and I've been crazy about it since.
Been dying to see a video of it.
Thanks for sharing it
Always wanted to see a tour of this beautiful home. Well done! 😍
Thank you I have wanted to see it for YEARRSSS aswell xx
Well done Akua Vann3. This house is fantabrutall. Gorgeous
Thank you
Years ago, I saw this house featured in a couple of shelter magazines like Dwell, and ALWAYS wanted to see MORE of the house. It's beautiful, intelligently designed without bending backwards to Western trends and wasteful energy. This is how Tropical Modernism SHOULD be.
Love this house, especially the fact that it's built factoring in the local environment. I remember Nana's house was built on stilts, allowing both airflow and negating the effect of torrential rain during the wet season. The ventilation is something that we took for granted. African architecture has lost a lot of practically as we have commercialised
60s and 70s interior modern house with African touches
I see furniture from the 60s& 70s
I’ve always love your content and I thought you were done with doing videos but now you are back on it
This is beautiful...simple and raw
Africa is a whole continent..give the country of Ghana its due ❤from Uganda
Awesome stuff! My regards to Joe 👍🙂❤
love love loveee, they should make some villas in ghana for vacation rentals with the same concept! The aesthetic is giving peaceful paradise.
Joe Osae addo the innonative architect
Great, ghana has now beautiful new house Designs. I love it!
Been there for about 15years
@@KwameAmedzo i like that house!
@@palmlaguna yes..nice
Perfection!
Very cool,unique place ❤
🌿Unique
Will share
This is a beautiful house. We Ghanaians have to build to keep the heat out.
Yes Joe has done a lovely job!
Looks like a typical Chinese build....full of nature...so beautiful
Wow. Nice house
I Love it!
Absolutely! I would live in or rent it! I downloaded this video!
Vanessa, where did you get your dress?
I love it
It’s so stunning!
Very very unique house 🎉
Indeed!
Nice property I would live there
Voilà l'architecture africains c'est agréable à regarder
Its feels like an oasis of comfort. Beautiful home, thanks for sharing this home with us Vanessa.
Hey Vanessa, thank you for the video, waiting for your own projects, you have something coming for us doing all these inter and reviews? Anyway good job, bless you and have a nice weekend, you snd your family, as i sugggest your watchibg the football game turkey hahaha.
What sort of thing are you looking for 😅
@@VanessaKanbi i think we got much work to do, i like some if tgese modern big houses around the coast, or do uou know the tower at labadi beach, sadly they wo t finish it, good idea to talk about it, i like the manhatten style of living, having the chance to have the view over everthing, the comfort, elegent and modern like the new building of ghe eco bank in accra, good idea as well, its important because were relaying, bawumia gor president. Greets.
Saludos happy Sunday
Thank you. Happy Saturday to you too
Awesome House Vanessa Beautifully shot , with the classy music 🎵 😊….the whole house looks like a piece of art. I personally would stay innit but I’ll have to throw in a 75 inch flatscreen to watch my shows like yours 😊❤ 😂cheers . Always impressed with the way you dress. Such a lady. Thanks 🙏
For an architects house, i feel the finishing could've been way better! It feels more like an architect art studio.
I totally agree.
What finishing do you want. Besides he's not been living there for years
@@KwameAmedzo l guess by Ghanaian standard; yes what finishing must I want from a Ghanaian “architect” and I’m not being sarcastic 😂 Kwame. May GOD help you. 😂 wait, do you know the definition of sarcasm?
Louvers weren't abandoned for air-conditioning. Many homes with glass windows don't even have wiring for air-conditioning. Louvers don't seal well, traps and lets in dust, and general a maintenance headache. The better louvers never made it to the local market. The technology hasn't generally been improved since forever.
Hopefully we get a better Louvre design. I'm a big fan of the airflow.
I’ve seen some high quality ones that seal would be great to see them more.
People think glass windows are "posh" and modern
@@selassietetevie4966 Glass surely is the modern option most people go for across the world. Louvre technology hasn't improved for the most part in the past 30yrs. All we got here in Ghana was the cheaper plastic version which breaks in no time.
With that said, there are special modern louvers including automated ones. But those are exclusively premium and not available in the local market...even then, outside the price range of the ordinary Ghanaian.
@aberba not absolutely correct, louvres are for tropical climate, so you do not see them in temperature climate, but in Australia and tropical Asia they are common in residential buildings.as for price point and development, the cheap glass windows you see in Ghana are not the same as in Europe where most are double glazed and better insulated for temperature and noise control.
miss you Vanessa
No need to miss me cos I’m back 🥳
@@VanessaKanbi Back for how long?
Vanessa, this is amazing! Who is the architecht? Do you mind sharing how we could reach him, if we potentially would like to work with him in the future?Thank you :)
Joe is currently in the USA
I was able to reach him via what's app. The price to own is $500,000+ and rental is $2,500 plus utilities
Amazing house. Is it possible to visit it for a passionnate african like me?
Whats the name of the tree with red flowers?
some parts of the outside of the house is nice but the staircase to the front door has no wheelchair access. Inside too many step down, a more simple layout would have been nice. I feel he want simplicity but was trying too hard it became a confused layout.. just my thoughts..
i want to buy it
What part of Ghana is this, Interested in guest house
Adjringano ' east legon' accra
@@KwameAmedzo Thanks
Can we have the architects contact info? I want to build something similar in Cameroon
Email me
@@VanessaKanbiI also want his contact
What annual taxes do u pay for this houses?
I really wish the video quality would be better to bring out all details.
Nice house. Very welcoming. Can you please say Primary bedroom instead of master bedroom. Master bedroom is a problematic term for it's ties to slavery.
Thanks for the video
Yes sorry I’ve been trying to erase master from my vocabulary as you will see from other videos. Apologies if I say master in this one.
Looks like the house is rotting away. The place isn't well maintained.
I don’t like it no flow to the house and poor Quality sorry 😢.