Africa Reinsurance PLC AfRE

Location: ABUJA

Date: 2019

Status: Competition

Client: Africa Reinsurance PLC

Pan-African organization having run out of space at current location, seeking to relocate into a befitting and fit-for-purpose corporate headquarters. The CBD located gently sloping 0.5Ha site is situated along an established commercial corridor provides the opportunity for a brand reflective and well serviced intervention that addresses their current and projected operational needs.

Spread across a G+10 floors in the main office block of 16,800sqm GFA, and a G+4 parking block of 13,800sqm GFA, the scheme features across its total build area 51% commercial office occupancy/use, 38% parking (serving about 200 cars), and 11% common services and vertical circulation; this put the primary occupancy efficiency at circa 75%.

Other functions include sky gardens, a health & fitness gym, a creche facility, and social roofs. A distinguishing feature was the African skins around the blocks which instantly set the building out within context and create a conditioning envelope for the building.