UNDERBRIDGE

SPRING 2024 // COMPETITION SUBMISSION // 6.495519, 3.3930651 // LAGOS, NIGERIA

Research and design competition project completed in collaboration with Zeynep Gül and Cyrus Gagaza.​

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Lagos is a city laden with economic, social, and cultural inequality. Makoko, an underserved water-logged fishing community situated on stilts above Lagos Lagoon, is situated directly between bustling downtown and new infrastructural developments, presenting starkly unequal development. Makoko is in desperate need of standard of living increases associated with more stable housing that can be resilient to upcoming sea level rise. Underbridge supplements the existing structure of Makoko by introducing various programs through infrastructural additions underneath the Third Mainland Bridge. The modular design focuses on creating spaces that improve the living standards by enhancing the existing social life.