MAKOKO METTA

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