Concept · rent & rooms · Phone + web
Nyumba
A building, floor by floor: who has paid rent, what needs fixing, and rooms to book.
ClientStudio concept
WhatConcept · rent & rooms
WherePhone + web
Year2026
StatusConcept
01 · The story
The idea.
The problem
A landlord with ninety homes keeps rent in a notebook and repairs in WhatsApp. Nyumba draws the whole building and colours each home by its rent.
What it does
- The building, drawn: every window a home, coloured paid, due or empty.
- Floor plans to pick a room, like choosing a seat.
- Rent by M-Pesa, with reminders before the 5th.
- Repairs and visitors, logged from the tenant’s phone.
Where it is now
A studio concept, built as a working demo and shown to a real-estate developer.
02 · The design concept
86 of 96 homes paid.
Crisp white, a deep navy and one koi red for what’s overdue, with the building itself as the chart.
Palette
White#ffffff
Navy#16243A
Koi red#B8241C
Sand#EADCC5
Type
GambarinoHeadings
InterReading text
Signature · The building as the chart
No bar charts: the building is drawn floor by floor and each window shows its rent.
03 · The screens
