Lagos
The destruction of the abundantly valuable traditional architecture in the North has pushed people into temporary structures called Internally Displaced People camps or IDP camps. The camps function as a space for refugees to live and build a new life in these temporal structures which have transformed into permanent residences and a new urban ecosystem. As the government pools most of its funds towered military strategies in the North, little money and research has been focused on the living aftermath of this violence for the people affected. Schools, hospitals, and homes are destroyed, and few plans have been made to provide these services in IDP camps as long lasting and sustainable entities. The housing in the IDP camps provide an opportunity to create agile structures that can metabolize at the urban scale to produce a sustainable urban architecture based in informality, land pooling, and land lifting. This type of architecture operates against contemporary real estate and property and emerges out of the in-between and borderland peoples and places that live outside of mapped and recognized forms of human dwelling.
Status: Unbuilt
Location: Gombe, NG
Firm Role: Architects