Gallery Home

Ado Odo/Ota, OG, Nigeria

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Gallery Home

Ado Odo/Ota, OG, Nigeria

Firm

Design Party

Type

Residential › Private House

STATUS

Concept

SIZE

0 sqft - 1000 sqft

BUDGET

$10K - 50K

When we are asked to do private residences,
we are usually wary if we don't have enough
information of the client. Not that we want
to know more about them for knowing sake,
but because information about, say their
past houses, say their vision, say their habits,
say their experiences always helps us have enough
ideas to nourish the project. Sadly with this house,
we couldn't get as much info as we would have liked.

In any case, like the pragmatic idealists that we are,
we quickly adapted and formed a system of beliefs for the
building. First was, homes are houses with memories and
second was, memories make a home. So we decided to create memories.

How? We introduced a south-facing feature wall that enjoys direct,
round-the day-sunlight to be the harbinger of memories.
We hoped that it will be a wall with a recall effect,
to evoke cherished collective memories
In the end we created a gallery home.

Location: Sango Ifo
Built up area: 81 sq,meters
Architects: Design Party
Design: Baba Oladeji
Criticism: Adeposi Okupe, Olawale Kasumu
Visualisation: Calin Petrescu