Makoko Urban Design Toolbox
Back to Projects list- Location
- Lagos, Nigeria
- Year
- 2014
- Client
- Makoko Communities, Union of Ogu Baales
- Team
- Saskia Niklas, Fabienne Hoelzel, Mélanie Jeannet, Rujun Jia, Katerina Kálalová, Dácil Rodriguez
- Financing and implementation partner
- Heinrich Böll Stiftung Nigeria
- Human rights organization and strategic partner
- SERAC
- in collaboration with
- Makoko communities | Center for Understanding Sustainable Practice at Robert Gordon University Aberdeen (neigborhood management) | City Ridge Farms, Lagos (urban gardening) | Midori Ltd., Lagos (biogas technology)
- Project financing partner
- Confédération suisse | Embassy of Switzerland in Nigeria
- Acknowledgment
- Christiana Honfor (Makoko community) | Henrietta Bidemi (Makoko community)
Fabulous Urban developed the Makoko Urban Design Toolbox as contribution to the Makoko/Iwaya Waterfront Regeneration Plan based on the conviction that small-scale solutions yet integrated in an overall and comprehensive urban development and planning concept might work best in an environment like Makoko. The Makoko Urban Design Toolbox includes the design and concept of the Makoko Neighborhood Hotspot, as well developed by Fabulous Urban.The Makoko Urban Design Toolbox contains strategies and tools in three chapters, including a preceding vision.
Vision
Life on water
Makoko today
Conflicts in the Makoko area – 4
Suggested upgrading
Basic relations
Challenges and approaches – 14
New Decentralized Infrastructure
Upgrading strategy – 22
Neighborhood Hotspot
Closed-loop cycles
Key goals
Elevations
Layout plans – 24
Solid waste center
Solid waste processing
Layout plans – 45
New Job Opportunities
Job opportunities
Opportunity cards – 56
Tourism
Waterfront experience – 62
Upgrade of the Neighborhood
Challenges found in the area
Suggested upgrade – 72
Stilts
Slabs
Roof and wall cladding – 74
Water harvesting system
Toilet
Home-grown food – 86