Designed on paper.Delivered on site.

The site falls 26 metres from its highest point to its lowest, on the windward slopes of the Akuapem Togo range. Rather than cut a flat platform, the house was set into the slope: a 320sqm sub-basement holding parking, plant and a gym, with 670sqm of living space above it on a raft foundation, and a shaded terrace connecting every zone to a partially cantilevered pool.

The building sits 35° off the north–south axis, balancing solar gain against the view. Three-metre overhangs shade the most glazed façade. Every habitable room cross-ventilates, so the air conditioning is rarely needed. A 20kVA solar array covers 90% of household energy, and 660sqm of roof catchment feeds rainwater harvesting.

I produced the project's visualisation, supervised a substantial part of construction through to handover, and prepared the EDGE assessment and green-building submission. IFC recognised the house in the Home category of the EDGE Green Building Challenge in October 2022.

An existing house taken back to measured drawings and rebuilt. I surveyed the property on site, drafted it in CAD, developed the scheme to final design, and designed the carport and front façade feature with its construction details. On site I coordinated the structural and mechanical engineers and supervised the artisans executing the façade.

Studios, one-, two- and three-bedroom apartments, penthouse duplexes and town houses in one scheme. The site sloped steeply enough to be a problem; it became the answer instead: sub-basement parking tucked under the fall, and a stepped multi-level layout that gave every block a different relationship to the ground.

I worked with the design team on concept and design development across the typologies, led client and stakeholder engagement through the design stages, and built the 3D model for the whole development.

A gated development of seventeen homes: four two-storey three-bedroom units, five three-storey four-bedroom units and eight two-storey four-bedroom units, with a shared entrance building carrying an 80sqm gym above the gate, a 90sqm pool court, a 50sqm pharmacy, a facilities office and a gate house.

I was brought onto the project after construction had already started, to improve the existing designs, develop new ones where they were needed, and support delivery on site. Working inside a live build means every design decision has to survive what is already in the ground.

A compact apartment worked from measured layout through sections, interior isometrics and finished visuals. Small plans are unforgiving: the twenty-one square metre living area has to hold a sofa, a dining table and a route to the kitchen without any of the three getting in the way of the others.

Drawings and renders produced end to end. It is the same set a client uses to approve finishes and a contractor uses to build.