ResidentialCompleted
Nakasero Ridge Villa
Nakasero, Kampala2024
A four-bedroom family house that reads the ridge rather than flattening it — split levels, deep eaves and a courtyard that stays cool through the dry season.
Residential · CompletedResidential
Nakasero Ridge Villa
A four-bedroom family house that reads the ridge rather than flattening it — split levels, deep eaves and a courtyard that stays cool through the dry season.
Nakasero, Kampala2024
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Years practising
Building in Uganda since 2009.
The practice
AM Consults is an architectural practice based in Kampala. We work across residential, commercial and institutional projects in Uganda — from single houses on difficult hillside plots to hospital wings and twelve-storey offices.
What connects them is a way of working: understand the site properly, design for this climate rather than an imported one, choose materials that will still look right in twenty years, and stay involved until the building is finished.
Site before styleEvery scheme starts with the slope, the sun path and the prevailing breeze — not with a reference image.
Materials that age wellFair-faced concrete, Kajjansi brick, local hardwood and stone. Nothing that needs an imported spare part.
Delivered, not just drawnWe stay on site through construction. The building that gets built is the building we designed.
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Projects delivered
Across Uganda since the practice opened in 2009.
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Years in practice
Continuously registered and building in Kampala.
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Average cooling saved
On our passively designed commercial buildings.
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Regions served
Central, Eastern, Western and Northern Uganda.
What we do
Most clients come to us for the architecture and stay for everything around it. Each service works on its own — together they mean one team is accountable from first sketch to handover.
Selected work
A cross-section of what we build: houses, offices, apartments, a university building and a hospital wing. Different briefs, the same approach.
ResidentialCommercialInstitutionalInteriorsProject managementFeasibilityBIM & visualisation
How we work
Every commission runs on the same spine. You always know which stage you are in, what is being produced, and what decision is needed next.
01Week 1–3STAGE 01
Listen and look
We walk the site, read the survey and the title, and spend real time on the brief. Most of what a project will cost is decided here, before a line is drawn.
- Site appraisal
- Brief and space schedule
- Constraints review
02Week 3–8STAGE 02
Test options
Two or three genuinely different concepts, each costed at order-of-magnitude. We would rather show you an option you reject than only the one we liked.
- Concept options
- Massing studies
- Indicative cost per option
03Month 2–6STAGE 03
Develop and coordinate
The chosen scheme is developed in BIM and coordinated with structural and services engineers. Clashes get resolved on the model, where they are cheap.
- Developed design
- Engineering coordination
- Statutory submission
04On siteSTAGE 04
Build and hand over
Tender documentation, contractor selection, then regular site inspections through construction, snagging and handover. We do not disappear at tender stage.
- Tender package
- Site inspections
- Snagging and O&M
Journal
Design thinking, project updates and the regulatory detail that catches developers out. Written by the people doing the work.
Design Tips2 min read
Designing for Kampala's Two Rainy Seasons
March to May, September to November. Two wet seasons a year is not a detail to design around at the end — it shapes roof, ground and everything in between.
By Aisha Mukasa
Project Updates2 min read
Nakasero Ridge Villa: From Sketch to Handover
Eleven months, fourteen metres of level change and a client who wanted the trees kept. A look back at how the Nakasero house came together.
By Daniel Okello
Industry News1 min read
Uganda's Building Standards: What Developers Should Know
Approvals, occupancy permits and the compliance steps that most often catch developers out. A practical orientation, not legal advice.
By Aisha Mukasa
Start here
Send us the plot, the brief, or just a rough idea of what you want to build. The first conversation costs nothing, and we will tell you honestly whether we are the right practice for it.