2019 Tamayouz International Graduation Project Award
2019 MArchI Gold Medal
Multifunctional complex for the revitalization of a former Olasosun Landfill in Lagos, Nigeria. A vision for a new complex includes an anchor program that incorporates attitudes relating to the rehabilitation of damaged land, building a sports complex, educational facility, and provision of working places. The rehabilitation will take several stages.
Until recently, Lagos solved the problem of waste disposal by relocating to the suburbs. As the city grew, the Olasosun landfill was quickly surrounded by all kinds of urban activity, including residential, religious, public, industrial, and commercial facilities. Therefore, the local government decided to shut down the landfill to design a park and stadium. The ongoing question is how to find a key that would open new perspectives to locals, and give a former landfill a new life, free of uncontrolled waste disposal, and full of efficient urban programs.
We erect a flexible and transformable bamboo unit-based structure that accommodates sheds for 14 waste sorting lines (each sorts 50-250 tonnes of waste/per year), recycling lines, and modules for manual work with recycled waste. The dominant structure is a community center, which serves as a space for educational lectures, advertisements, and community meetings. Kindergarten and elementary schools are available for workers' children. A canteen is provided as well.
Thus, during this design stage, we use garbage as a resource (sort-recycle-sale/ sort-recycle-product_manufacture-sale). It works as a hub for the production of items made of recycled waste, we provide local people with new jobs and stable income.
Through the use of a computational algorithm, developed using Grasshopper, the inhabitants are given access to a participatory design interface, that allows them to design their spaces. Each apartment is unique and can be reconfigured over time.
Groups of people from neighborhoods of max 36 apartments, select a view for the main shared space and discuss what functions they would prefer to share.
Once all flats for one neighborhood are developed algorithm creates all possible combinations of fittings. Thus, we receive a fully packed cluster where users themselves evaluate the practicality of assemblage.
The end result, despite being affordable, offers the inhabitants the ability to design unique, visually appealing, and eco-friendly apartments. By involving people not only digitally but physically we bring more awareness to understanding the circular design approach.
