about os house ghana
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OS-House Ghana
OS-House Ghana Ltd
Manna Plaza BuildingOpposite Comm. 18 Junction
Spintex Road, AccraTel: 0247979868,0262090475
E-mail: [email protected]: www.os-house.org
To improve the overall quality of life in urban areas and create a positive ecological footprint by providing affordable, modular and sustainable housing concepts in Ghana and facilitating access to housing credit for both end-users and developers
Vision
Enviu Holding BV – The Netherlands
OS-House International – The Netherlands
Key affiliates
• GNAT – teachers• NAGRAT – graduate teachers• NALAG – Civil Servants (Local government authorities MMDAs)• Civil Servant Associations – MDAs• GRNA – Nurses• Companies (e.g mining)• TEWU• Financial institutions• Developers
Key stakeholders
• Matching financial institutions to long term funding• Project developers to long term funding• user centered design (interior | exterior)
Main solutions to affordable housing
Design competition- contestants3100+ (a.o.Bulgaria, Bolivia, Colombia, Chile, Germany, Egypt, England, Philippines, Ghana, Greece, Indonesia, Italy, Kazakhstan, Morocco, Mexico, Netherlands, Nigeria, Panama, Portugal, Romania, Russia, Spain, Vietnam, USA, etc.)Jury: Cameron Sinclair (Architects for Humanity)Prof. Intstiful (Dean KNUST)Barbara Simons (student Ghana)Claudio Acioly (Head Housing,UN-Habitat)Kees Noorman (Director McDonough Architects, C2C)
Milestones
• Land acquired and registered• Construction of winning designs underway• 100 houses target to start in November this year
Building of two winning designs in Cape Coast
• Cape Coast Municipal Assembly• Foundation to Build (Stichting Bouwen) Dutch NGO
providing technical assistance for the pilot• Context International – SROI
Partners
• Com.wonen, • Dura Vermeer, • DOEN, • Dutch Ministry of Spatial Planning,
Investment partners
Knowledge partners
• TU Delft, and • Architecture for Humanity
• Ease access to affordable mortgage• Modern designs that reduces energy use• Build on your own land at your preferred
location• Move into your own house within one year
and stop paying rent
Our preposition to clients