Fifth Year Thesis Project

I believe place-making and redevelopment with new transit infrastructure are catalysts for social change and collective progress. Construction and infrastructural costs can be reduced by exploring the use of contextual materials and found objects for construction and adaptive re-use in design. This thesis investigates the manipulation of these objects to be utilized at various scales, from small furniture to large building structures.
Lagos, Nigeria has approximately 1.7 million people living below the poverty line, 300,000 of whom are homeless in the growing city. I have chosen the National theatre light rail stop in Lagos Island as the site for my thesis. This is an underdeveloped area in close proximity to a cultural landmark that, with a new stop, is a viable location for redevelopment. Being a highly active port city, there is an overabundance of shipping containers abandoned on the streets as it is cheaper to keep them than to ship them back. Starting with a community center in the first phase of redevelopment, I have chosen to re-adapt these shipping containers for use in new construction.

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