Rashid Ali Architects creates chequered garden tea room in Somaliland

Somaliland- and London-based Rashid Ali Architects has created a chequered timber garden pavilion that can be illuminated as a "glowing lantern" in Hargeisa.
Set within the paved garden of a house in the capital of Somaliland, the simple pavilion is constructed from a timber frame to create a chequered appearance.
Rashid Ali Architects has designed a garden pavilion in Somaliland
"The idea of the chequered facade was to express the structural pattern of the timber as the aesthetic language