Swiss studio Roeoesli Maeder Architekten has built anembassy for Switzerland in Nairobi, Kenya, as an extension of the dyed concrete boundary wall that surrounds the compound.
The concrete building is built in a prominently wealthy residential area of the Kenyan capital, which is home to numerous nation's embassies, including the HOK-designed US Embassy. It contains diplomatic and consulate services for the Swiss government.

The embassy's form is designed as an extension of the 2.5-metre-high perimeter wall, which was required to enclose the site for security reasons.
According to Roeoesli Maeder Architekten, this wall provided a "contradictory but exciting starting point for the required representative facility for a modern, open Switzerland".
The building extends away from the wall and turns to form a spiral shape, with both elements designed to appear as a single architectural construction.
The perimeter wall and the embassy are built from dyed exposed-concrete in a red-brown colour, meant to represent the "coffee soil" earth that Nairobi is built on, which owes its colour to the high iron content.

At the embassy's entrance, where it connects to the wall, the building has a single storey above ground. This section of the building contains the publicly accessible consular facilities.
As the building extends from the wall, the slopping ground drops away to reveal a two-storey structure, which contains the diplomatic areas and offices.
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