UNIT 21

Final Images 

NOVEMBER 2040 COMPRESSIVE CORRIDORS My grandfather leads you through the market, as you catch glimpses of distant areas that you want to eagerly explore.

MAY 2040 THE DISSOLVING LATERITE PINNACLES

Exposing the laterite layers  [to be updated]

Ile Alamo Compound [to be updated]

African Related Stores located on Deptford High Street

My grandfather leads me through an alleyway in-between two traditional Yoruba clay houses (Ile Alamo) in his grandfather’s old village of Ode-Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria. The modern day plastering is peeling off the mud structures which have been in existence from around the 1930s. Aluminium steel sheets used for the roofs are starting to dismantle from the beam supports. This image shows how the materiality of construction in Nigeria has evolved from the mus blocks (right) to the plastering of the walls (left) to the modern concrete block (building ahead) 

Mud architecture in Aro Compound, Ode Remo, Ogun State, Nigeria

Portuguese residential building owned by my Great Grandfather in Ogun State, Nigeria 

Books read this summer on traditional Yoruba architecture seen in the western Nigerian states of Lagos State and Ogun state.