Eco-Friendly Dream House in Accra, Ghana Built By Ghanaian Architect Joe Osae Addo
Eco-Friendly Dream House in Accra, Ghana Built By Ghanaian Architect Joe Osae Addo
“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…
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Wood makes the difference totally love it
Thank you for all of your Video's, all very nice, all therapeutic 🥰🤗
Love your dress, you wear beautiful Attire in all of your videos, You look wonderful, beautiful 💙🤍💙🤍💙🤍
Amazing house. Is it possible to visit it for a passionnate african like me?
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.
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
Voilà l'architecture africains c'est agréable à regarder
love love loveee, they should make some villas in ghana for vacation rentals with the same concept! The aesthetic is giving peaceful paradise.
I really wish the video quality would be better to bring out all details.
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 🙂
60s and 70s interior modern house with African touches
I see furniture from the 60s& 70s
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.
Tropical modernism. It is called tropical modernism. Joe Osae Addo is phenomenal.
Africa is a whole continent..give the country of Ghana its due ❤from Uganda
I’ve always love your content and I thought you were done with doing videos but now you are back on it
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.
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
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JJEYr7xrRnw
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..
This is beautiful…simple and raw
What annual taxes do u pay for this houses?
Nice property I would live there
Whats the name of the tree with red flowers?
Looks like a typical Chinese build….full of nature…so beautiful
Can we have the architects contact info? I want to build something similar in Cameroon
Very cool,unique place ❤
Awesome stuff! My regards to Joe 👍🙂❤
🌿Unique
Will share
I don’t like it no flow to the house and poor Quality sorry 😢.
Looks like the house is rotting away. The place isn't well maintained.
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 want to buy it
Very very unique house 🎉
Its feels like an oasis of comfort. Beautiful home, thanks for sharing this home with us Vanessa.