Makoko Metta Mckinleys Future Studio: WATER
Makoko Metta Transforming timber waste into economic productivity public amenity improved water quality wildlife habitat and integrated human settlement
Mckinleys Future Studio Enabler: Danial Friedman
Team: Nicholas L. Faller [MArch] Raymond J. Sayers [MArch] Matthew Macdonald [MLArch]
Mckinleys Future Studio:
WATER
BRIEF OFFSHORE LAGOS, NIGERIA, NEAR THE MAKOKO SLUM, AN AD HOC DISTRICT BUILT OVER THE BRACKISH WATERS OF THE LAGOS LAG0ON--employing a unique system of water and soil management to incrimentally remediate deforestation and other damage to the regional ecosystem, generating a necklace of hybrid land formations that will provide the burgeoning urban population with jobs, recreation, and improved housing, among other social and economic benefits.
Ingenuity
Sand Dredgers
Culture on Water
Timber Waste
Timber Process
Lagos Nigeria + Makoko + Ebute Metta Africa Makoko
Nigeria
Ebute Metta 0
250’
1000’
Lagos
6,000,000+ people will migrate to Lagos by 2050
Lagos Climate Lagos Projected Sea Level Rise
Steady Average Temperatures
60 50
100
60
Sea Level Rise (cm)
40
80
30 20 10 0
40
1990
2010
2030
2050
2070
2090
Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University
20 Lagos Projected Temperature
Jan
74 91
Feb
75 91
Mar
75 89
73 87
Apr May
Jun
72 84
Jul
72 83
Aug
72 82
Sep
71 84
Oct
72 87
Nov
72 88
Dec
72 89
32 31
Two Rainy Seasons 30
Annual Temperature (°C)
72 90
30 29 28 27
0.49
0.84
Jan
Feb
2.12
Mar
4.31
6.1
Apr May
11.8
Jun
Jul
9.85
Aug
4.67
Sep
5.02
4.01
Oct
Nov
1.27
Dec
Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University
Lagos Projected Precipitation
10
0.46 Inches
210
Annual Precipitation (cm)
# of Rainy Days per Month
26 25 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020 2040 2060 2080 2100
20
190
170
150
130 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020 2040 2060 2080 2100 Center for Climate Systems Research, Columbia University
Regional Timber Industry
recent temperature rise 2x global average
NIGERIA Highest rate of deforestation worldwide
greenhouse gas emissions
Global Top 25 Biodiversity Hotspot
87% from timber industry
timber trade
gross domestic product
15%
85% export import
timber 0.5%
legal status
70% illegal, most stamped “legal�
Sahara encroaches 1km/yr
Site Context
Timber Waste to Opportunity
MAKOKO slum
EBUTE METTA saw mills
Timber Waste to Opportunity
saw dust crooked logs off-cuts large branches WASTE
PROCESS
Regional Timber
2/3 of tree
FOREST
FELLING
LIMBING
LASHING
MONSOON
40-50%
TUGBOAT
local
global
$$
building furniture
$
$$
paper plywood
MAKOKO FLOAT
DRYING
SAWING
LAGOON
LABOR
POWER
WASTE 40-50%
area boys hyacinth raft storage hazard
child labor death
faulty infastructure sub-standard equipment
saw dust crooked logs off-cuts leachates
LUMBER
POLLUTANTS
MARKET
AIR
noise pollution
SOIL
leachates
WATER
other
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LOG FLOAT Timber from the surrounding region is floated into Ebutte Metta throught the Lagos Lagoon. The trees are first cut down and de limbed, from there they are lashed together to form rafts that are then literally floated down river through the lagoon where they are then stored between the waters edge and the third man bridge.
01 LOG SAW From the lagoon the logs are then pulled out of the lagoon and rolled up to the saw mills located right along the waters edge. Once the logs are cut down into usable lumber massive amounts of saw dust are pushed out into the water or burned further polluting the enviornment.
02
LOG WASTE A percentage of log waste cannot be saved and will drift out into the lagoon, this includes saw dust, off cuts,
03 SAND DREDGERS Using local Sand Dredgers the timber waste including saw dust, off cuts, and other unusable pieces of the trees will be brought out into the lagoon in order to replicate the process of land formation through a natural process.
04 PROSPERITY Over time the saw dust fingers will decay and become usable soil that can begin to support life. The goal of the landformations are to support life for the people of Makoko while at the same time create an economy and a suistanable way of life that will fit into the natural order of things and culture within Lagos Nigeria.
05
06 MAKOKO slum
EBUTE METTA saw mills MAKOKO METTA saw dust fingers
Circulation
Filtration Community
Community 00
20 20
80 80
FEET FEET
2050: 1’ LAGOON RISE
CURRENT: STILT HOUSING
CURRENT: ADEYEMI FLOATING SCHOOL
PROPOSED: FLOATING HOUSING
1. Formation
2. Stewardship
3. Yield
Sand Dredgers
Year 1
NH4+
Year 5
Year 10
Year 20
NaCl
Nitrogen Fixer
Salt Tolerant
Edible
Building Material
Crafts
Fuel Wood
Coppice
Drum Wood
Soil Stabilizer
Medicinal
Boat Building
Habitat
Market
Nectary
Community
Timber Tree
Freshwater Lens
Date Palm
Found near edges of swamps, lakes and watercourses. Highly productive commercial crop Extremely versatile craft material
Ana Tree
Flood tolerant Dynamic accumulator Inverted phenology
Sesbania
Tolerates seasonal or permanently waterlogged soils Tolerates saline, acidic and alkaline soils Extremely fast growing
LOG JAMS
using the basic prinicpal of log jams found in nature and useing the natural current of the water it is possible to create landformations in the middle of the lagoon
Common Ground Market
Convergence
Common Ground Market
Economic Productivity
Improved Water Quality
Public Amenity
Integrated Human Settlement
Wildlife Habitat