Eko Cultural Utopia 2054

In a future in which technological revolution will preside over many various factors of life, the adaptation of such is essential to the productive developments of urban infrastructures that not only responds to environmental requirements but also the productivity and entertainment of the people. Situating the project in Lagos (Eko), Nigeria. It serves as a benchmark in the contextual theme of reflecting the peoples ways of life. The Nigerian coastal city is one of the continent’s top mega cities which simultaneously serves a place of great optimism and social ingenuity as well as extreme poverty, over-crowding, failing physical and social infrastructure. Therefore, designing adaptable infrastructures that cater for the creative and entertainment need of the general public in context by facilitating the celebration of everyday rituals that include traditonal sports and cultural activities like festivals. These rituals serve as a major framework for contextually grounding the project by adapting the concept of performance, engagement and production that enables social regeneration passively. With a focus on the cultural and social development of the people in a bustling city and their accumulated everyday creative strides of a new global future through the infusion of age-long cultural practices.

The proposal comprises of an urban structure narrative that is structured across the cityscape. Situated in the heart of the city is the “The Cultural Annex” — A multidimensional urban development that encapsulates dynamic clusters in and around the facility, with its core spatial development which combines the functions of performance, entertainment and facilitating the production of advanced materials for new urban structures — ‘Neohaven modules’ across the informal landscape of the city. This infrastructure serve as a self replicating physical architecture which is developed to exist as a system for continual performatory constructs and physical evolution, by composing as an adaptation of informal spaces that provides a spatial response for the rituals of performance and production.