Project 02 Architecture
Bahari Homes
From apartment plan to connected courtyard
This reference-informed study of Bahari Homes in Kilimani, Nairobi moves between the apartment, connected U-shaped residential wings, entrance and courtyard. Python-built geometry pairs photographed architectural finishes with a proposed furnishing scheme, while separate scenes make the rooms, amenities and parking inspectable.
- Finished views
- 11
- Principal bedrooms
- 3
- Separate self-contained DSQ
- 1
- Nominal model gross outline
- 183 m2
Beyond the render
Turn the idea around.
7 interactive models
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Apartment cutaway
Furnished apartment and separate DSQ with low cutaway walls. Model dimensions and furnishings are inferred; private plans, photographs and text labels are not included.
Web-display copy in metres, with simplified geometry and materials where needed. Not a print file, measurement tool or safety certification. Native Blender/STL assets are unchanged.
01 / The starting point
What we asked
the model to do.
A summary of the modelling brief, rather than a verbatim prompt.
Build an editable Blender reconstruction from a supplied floor plan, photographs and clarified layout. Mirror the apartment front-to-back without reversing its balcony facade, preserve three principal bedrooms and a separately accessed self-contained DSQ, and furnish the rooms. Extend the study to the connected residential complex, photograph-led gate and garden, indoor amenities and parking, with multiple presentation views and explicit labels for inferred details.
02 / From brief to scene
How it takes shape.
- 01
Use the clarified apartment arrangement before ambiguous sketch details, photographed finishes before generic styling, and property listings only for broad development context.
- 02
Trace and normalize the private gross outline to a nominal 183 m2, including the DSQ and balcony projections but excluding the common approach.
- 03
Generate named, editable Blender geometry with Python data APIs and bmesh; keep cutaway walls, full-height walls and the interior ceiling in separate presentation scenes.
- 04
Add proposed teal, terracotta, ochre and cobalt furnishings against the neutral finishes, then build the connected exterior and photograph-led garden as distinct model components.
- 05
Save a native Blender asset with twelve scenes and render eleven views; the remaining scene holds the source-plan reference, not another finished image.
03 / The rendered result
Every point of view.11
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01 / 11Apartment, opened up
Low cutaway walls reveal the furnished apartment, its two balconies and the separately accessed DSQ. The colour scheme is a furnishing proposal, not a record of the existing contents.
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02 / 11Reading the plan
An orthographic view makes the corrected front-to-back mirrored layout legible, including the three principal bedrooms and separate DSQ. Labels describe the model rather than surveyed room dimensions.
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03 / 11Inside the lounge
An eye-level interior retains the full walls and ceiling, bringing the stepped tray ceiling, ring pendants and proposed furnishings into view. Photographed neutral finishes provide the backdrop for stronger colour accents.
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04 / 11A connected whole
The elevated complex view shows continuous U-shaped residential wings enclosing a front-open courtyard. It describes the development's broad form without locating this apartment inside a particular wing.
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05 / 11Below the garden
An isolated lower-level cutaway brings the indoor pool, gym and office suite into a single inspectable view. Their placement beneath the assumed garden podium is schematic, not established by the photographs.
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06 / 11Parking in section
A basement cutaway exposes the column grid, car bays, ramp and pedestrian markings. The parking photographs inform its appearance, not an exact layout or confirmed level.
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07 / 11Facing the street
The street-facing view studies the rhythm of projecting balconies, cream facades and brown-red vertical accents. The connected building is a reference-informed massing study, not a measured elevation.
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08 / 11Rooms at full height
Removing the ceiling slab while retaining full-height walls exposes the rooms, partitions and cornices. The model uses an assumed 2.95 m wall height rather than a recovered measurement.
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09 / 11At the entrance
The photograph-led entrance brings together a broad canopy, inset pier panels, black slatted gates and a stone-faced wall. Planted borders and driveway markings complete the arrival view.
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10 / 11Life between the wings
The eye-level garden follows the photographs' rectangular lawns and patterned paving, with a timber pergola on the left and a blue-and-yellow playground near the centre. The surrounding cycling route is an inferred interpretation of a confirmed amenity.
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11 / 11Looking up
An upward courtyard view shifts attention from landscaping to the height and continuity of the enclosing facades. Repeated balconies, pale walls and vertical accent panels frame the sky.
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