Residential · Modern African Minimalist
Asokoro Court
A three-generation compound in Asokoro, organised as one house from the drive and three homes once you are inside.
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The structural challenge
Three generations, two kitchens, and a formal room that Abuja public life actually uses. The compound had to read as a single house from the arrival and separate cleanly after the threshold. Harmattan dust loads every joint, and the north light is hard by mid-morning. An earlier proposal had polished the floors to a mirror, which glared in that light and showed every footprint of a house with staff, children, and visitors.
The execution
A shared court garden is the hinge between wings, which is the architectural harmonisation the family asked for: one roof language, one stone, and three degrees of privacy. The elders' wing has its own entrance and a quieter acoustic build-up. Floors are honed, not polished. Millwork is walnut-stained sapele, made in Abuja to our shop drawings, with stone from a Jos yard visited twice so the vein would match across the formal room and the stair. Dust is managed at the entry with a long external bench and a door that closes a vestibule, not with a rug asked to do the work of a plan.