Closer........

I plan to mark these two sides of this house with wall grooves, like we did in a former project of ours.........

Subject to the house owners approval of course

InvertedHammer:

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You should be happy that there are no two front pillars to complement the roof. That's an improvement.

I suspect that when you give our Nigerian architects a contract to design a building, most of them draw the front pillars and roof first, then try to figure out the rest.
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Na the matter wey me and my woman take quarrel. Most Nigerians fancy these pillars and believed that the pillars makes the house looks elegant. Far from it. My build is a typical contemporary build with mono pitch roof. But my woman, with her Nigerian mentality, believes that all the houses in Nigeria must have those pillars. Modern architecture don't come with pillars.

Usually, it is not the fault of the Architect. It is the client that mostly request the presence of those pillars and high roof

Focusmind:


Na the matter wey me and my woman take quarrel. Most Nigerians fancy these pillars and believed that the pillars makes the house looks elegant. Far from it. My build is a typical contemporary build with mono pitch roof. But my woman, with her Nigerian mentality, believes that all the houses in Nigeria must have those pillars. Modern architecture don't come with pillars.

Usually, it is not the fault of the Architect. It is the client that mostly request the presence of those pillars and high roof

Although am not making a defence for the 'now vilified' front pillars, but with Africa being as hot as it is, we sometimes need a space in a part of the building where we can come out under a sort of shade and cool off for some minutes/hours daily. The space needs to be cross ventilated and also a place we can sit or stand to survey the passing traffic, Holla out to neighbours in our African brotherly greetings. Won't the front of the house be a good place to rest and generally gossip about our neighbours old cars and ugly fences?

Since its economical to hang a covered deck between the front pillars, it will look appealing to a lot of folks.

Picture credit: Casa Phills designs.

spyder880:


Although am not making a defence for the 'now vilified' front pillars, but with Africa being as hot as it is, we sometimes need a space in a part of the building where we can come out under a sort of shade and cool off for some minutes/hours daily. The space needs to be cross ventilated and also a place we can sit or stand to survey the passing traffic, Holla out to neighbours in our African brotherly greetings. Won't the front of the house be a good place to rest and generally gossip about our neighbours old cars and ugly fences?

Since its economical to hang a covered deck between the front pillars, it will look appealing to a lot of folks.

Picture credit: Casa Phills designs.

Lots of sense in your analysis. I agree. It provides an avenue for open air relaxation and watch events happening outside from the comfort of your home. Very valid points. Very very convincing.

However, a well-designed roof tops does it for me.

But Bros o, this design you posted here, even with the pillars, looks so beautiful. I wouldn't mind this modern design with pillars. Well done.

spyder880:


Although am not making a defence for the 'now vilified' front pillars, but with Africa being as hot as it is, we sometimes need a space in a part of the building where we can come out under a sort of shade and cool off for some minutes/hours daily. The space needs to be cross ventilated and also a place we can sit or stand to survey the passing traffic, Holla out to neighbours in our African brotherly greetings. Won't the front of the house be a good place to rest and generally gossip about our neighbours old cars and ugly fences?

Since its economical to hang a covered deck between the front pillars, it will look appealing to a lot of folks.

Picture credit: Casa Phills designs.

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I won't use "vilified" . It is just the observation of our people's penchant for joining the bandwagon. After all Africa is a hot climate and we have survived centuries without "2FP". Do you remember the curved edge houses in the 90's? Everyone had 'em. Now we have "Send down the rain" mingling with the angels in the sky. Our amiable friend "2 front pillars(2FP)" is en vogue. God forbid our architects omit it, they will draw from memory. What's new? Bricks on everything.

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spyder880:
Closer........

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The groves

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@spyder880
Do you remember the inventory with cost in the construction of the Parapet Fascia for this building?
Thanks
@djike6060

djike6060:
@spyder880
Do you remember the inventory with cost in the construction of the Parapet Fascia for this building?
Thanks
@djike6060

It cost us between N850,000 and N900,000 to do this parapet.

This house today.........

Working on the back of the house.........

Working on adding spaces to this wall partition to maintain a design on one of the plans........

Plastering works in this house is still ongoing........

Electrical and mechanical piping works almost concuded

Concluding outside plastering.........

When e reach our turn, please remember to call us oh.

Good morning sir

michlins:
When e reach our turn, please remember to call us oh.

Good morning sir

I remember very well. Welcome.

We did the plastering of the outside of the security post yesterday. We will be continuing work on the plastering by this weekend.

More pictures of work done here by next week.

This plastering images were taken a few days ago, we are trying to do the two pillars framing the long windows. Our plan is to use rough tiles to finish that area.

The area marked "X" with green should be plastered smooth and will be painted with the same colour of paint used in the whole front, the area marked "X" with red will have rough tiles, or stones to beautify the front, framing the windows. The white marked indicates the demarcation belts that will be painted a different colour to enhance the borders.

Focusmind:


Na the matter wey me and my woman take quarrel. Most Nigerians fancy these pillars and believed that the pillars makes the house looks elegant. Far from it. My build is a typical contemporary build with mono pitch roof. But my woman, with her Nigerian mentality, believes that all the houses in Nigeria must have those pillars. Modern architecture don't come with pillars.

Usually, it is not the fault of the Architect. It is the client that mostly request the presence of those pillars and high roof

Hahaha, guys am one of those pillar gang. I choose to have 11 pillars in of mine house in designs stage, until I saw the bill that call mine pockets to order, even with that I reduce it to 5. I just love to see them same as high roofing on building designs especially the rounds ones. My dislike for flat roof, I don't think will even take it for free. Just like man choice of woman stay the way you are, you will fine who will love you the way you are. I'm sorry ladies, it a fact we deal with as men with different taste and choice .

kopell:
Hahaha, guys am one of those pillar gang. I choose to have 11 pillars in of mine house in designs stage, until I saw the bill that call mine pockets to order, even with that I reduce it to 5. I just love to see them same as high roofing on building designs especially the rounds ones. My dislike for flat roof, I don't think will even take it for free. Just like man choice of woman stay the way you are, you will fine who will love you the way you are. I'm sorry ladies, it a fact we deal with as men with different taste and choice .

Each to his own. I used to be a fan when I was still growing up in the East then. Anybody that built then with those front pillars were hailed and the building do look imposing then. But right now, my taste and perception has changed based on vast exposure and my understanding of what contemporary builds are made of.

This house as at today.......

Inside the main living room.........

Outside.........

Wow...Great work bro! Can you please share the details of that security house (size, roofing and possibly cost of erecting one like this) .
tnx

JerrCa:
Wow...Great work bro! Can you please share the details of that security house (size, roofing and possibly cost of erecting one like this) .
tnx

Ok, I will check my documents later. Welcome.

A short video showing the front of this building yesterday afternoon........


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Dr89iU2FJfs

Making arrangements to buy 150 bags of POP cement for our use in this site, we had already bought and offloaded 100 kg of POP sponge here..............

I saw this today and was wondering how feasible this is.
If yes, with the mad rise in prices of rods, why is his not widely adopted?

mekussa:
I saw this today and was wondering how feasible this is.
If yes, with the mad rise in prices of rods, why is his not widely adopted?

That's bamboo reinforcement, I hear its widely used as pillars reinforcement in some south east Asia countries. We are not using it so much here because of our building regulatory system which seems to be fixed and not as flexible as its supposed to be. University research is almost dead as funding is almost mon existent.

Walls

Plastering works still ongoing...........


https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HTrvDVi9piw

Still working the walls here...........