Bungoma Housing Project / Samantha Kollmeyer + Kit Kollmeyer

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Construction for Change, a non-profit in the United States, focuses on building the necessary infrastructure to sustain impoverished communities’ needs. Kit and Samantha Kollmeyer were asked by the CFC to design housing for the One Acre Fund in Bungoma, Kenya to provide a new facility for the growing organization. The One Acre Fund hopes to expand the number of families they provide aid to, from 12,000 families to 33,000 families in the next two years, so this husband and wife team was brought in to design a new headquarters consisting of office and classroom space, and two-bedroom housing units for in-country volunteers.

More about the Kollmeyer’s project after the break.

The site offers different obstacles the Kollmeyers had to reconcile such as the fact that in Bungoma, rain can reach nine inches per day and due to the site’s placement directly on the equator, there are sun tracks on all four sides of the building. But, the Kollmeyers even addressed “unusual” client needs, such as minimizing the “clucking of chickens”, the main source of noise, by having only a few windows face out to the site.

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Cite: Karen Cilento. "Bungoma Housing Project / Samantha Kollmeyer + Kit Kollmeyer " 19 Jan 2010. ArchDaily. Accessed . <https://www.archdaily.com/46835/bungoma-housing-project-samantha-kollmeyer-kit-kollmeyer> ISSN 0719-8884

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