Build with what is here
Clay, laterite, timber and labour that already exist within a day of the site. Imported specification is the exception, argued for, never assumed.
Who we are
About
the Studio
A small practice working across Nigeria — building in earth and brick, for heat, for rain, and for the way people actually live together.
We build with what the ground already offers — earth, shade, water, and the long habit of people making things together.
Replace this with your own history. Who founded the practice and when, what you were reacting against, the first project that set the direction. Two or three paragraphs is plenty — the projects carry the rest of the argument.
Our work runs from single houses to civic buildings, but the method does not change: understand the site, test the idea in model form, specify what can be made nearby, and stay on site until it is finished.
42Projects completed
11Years in practice
3Countries
16People in the studio
What we hold to
Shade before machinery
Orientation, mass, cross-ventilation and deep overhangs do the first eighty per cent of the cooling. Equipment covers the rest.
Drawings a builder can read
A design is only as good as what survives construction. We detail for the trades who will actually be on site.
The team
Adé Ọlábísí
Founding Partner
Kúnlé Adéwálé
Design Director
Ngozi Eze
Associate, Interiors
Tunde Bakare
Head of Delivery
Recognition
2025Ifelodun Villa — Housing Project of the YearAAF Awards
2024Àjọṣe House — Shortlisted, Emerging PracticeDezeen Awards
2023Ìtura Courtyard Homes — Honourable MentionAfrica Architecture Awards
2022Àjọṣe Center — Civic Building CommendationNIA Prize