Karen Hills
Lordship Africa is a leading international real estate development and investment company based in Nairobi, Kenya. It is a subsidiary of the lordship group which was established more than 25 years ago in Central Europe. Their development, Karen hills was envisioned as a luxury housing development that meets the highest standards of quality and comfort for the discerning home owner. The scheme’s planning is a mesh of strikingly modern forms in both terraced and semi-detached housing configurations connected via the main transport artery that loops through the entire development for ease of both vehicular and pedestrian circulation.
The development consists of differently designed typological villas that each sit on 1 acre of land. A modular design employed for all the units gives the advantage of them being interchangeable as development progresses based on prevailing conditions such as market preference or construction cost. Use of different accent colours for houses in different typological phases and landmark plants in the various green spaces serve as points of orientation in addition to giving individual phases a sense of belonging.
To ensure sustainable housing and living environment, several ‘green’ solutions have been put in place. The myriad of open green spaces, both small and expansive, littered throughout the development together with other landscape features such as planter screens maintain a large green footprint. Minimizing of hardscapes as opposed to soft landscaping also goes towards managing surface run-off, cutting down on reflected radiation and providing cooling parks for recreation. Other features such as use of solar energy for heating of water and lighting of common areas, treating of waste water for reuse for gardening, flushing and washing of vehicles and use of locally available materials with low embodied energy also go a long way towards reducing the development’s life cycle costs..
Lordship Africa is a leading international real estate development and investment company based in Nairobi, Kenya. It is a subsidiary of the lordship group which was established more than 25 years ago in Central Europe. Their development, Karen hills was envisioned as a luxury housing development that meets the highest standards of quality and comfort for the discerning home owner. The scheme’s planning is a mesh of strikingly modern forms in both terraced and semi-detached housing configurations connected via the main transport artery that loops through the entire development for ease of both vehicular and pedestrian circulation.
