LIFE and DEATH

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SELECTED WORKS 2019 - 2023

LIFE and DEATH

“As the windows of my soul opens, I see beauty

As the casements of my eyes closes I see eternity”

ABOUT

This Portfolio is an overview of the range of projects from academic to professional practice which highlights the impact of design in our environment and how design can impact and play a major role in our lives from the point when we were born into this world to where we learned in the four walls of the educational system, to a place of work, to where we reside, to where we retire in our elderly years and, to the place we final rest at the journeys end.

TABLE OF CONTENTS

CHAPTER 1: A LIFE BEGINS

The Embryo - Maternity Centre

CHAPTER 2: A LIFE IN TRAINING

The Turtle of Knowledge - Lecture Theatre

CHAPTER 3: THE WORKING HOURS OF LIFE

The Feeding Fruit - Palm Oil Factory

CHAPTER 4: THE END ROADS OF LIFE

A Wrinkle In Time - Home for The Elderly

CHAPTER 5: A LIFE ENDS AND CONTINUES

Beauty For Ashes - Cemetry

EXTRAS: A GALLERY OF ART

A Skin Of My Skin

CHAPTER 1: A LIFE BEGINS

The Embryo - Maternity Centre

A life begins when one is born into this world as the fetus develops in the womb of the woman awaiting to conceive her child into a new environment. Apart from the skin-to-skin touch the newly born baby experience with his or her mother, architecture also plays a role in the psychological and physical well-being of the child and his mother during childbirth from the atmosphere in which the mother is in labour to the space she convinces.

A research shows that a calm and healing atmosphere and space can relieve the emotional stress and pain the mother experiences during birthing.

This project is a proposed Maternity Centre design for the community of Nawfia, located in Nawfia, Anambra state, Nigeria, aiming to create a solace environment for birthing mothers in labour.

In this project, these healing spaces and atmosphere is introduced using biomimicry and biophilic design approach, applying nature and color as a psychological balance of the well-being of the users of its spaces.

ACCESS ROAD

ACCESS ROAD

sky light window installed in 1st & 2nd stage labbour room, delivery room and ist floor atruim space

cast-in-place concrete damp proofed flat gently sloped roof suspended ceiling board suspended floor slab (level 2)

fabricated double -skin wall shell

3d printed precast concrete wall envelope laminated curtain wall glass

CHAPTER 2: A LIFE IN TRAINING

The Turtle Of Knownledge - Lecture Theatre

Life is a training and part of this training is present in the four walls of an educational structured system. It is known that most of what we know right now serves as a body for the base that was aquired during this structured system, acting like a pillar or foundation for more knowledge to be laid on top.

This project is a lecture theatre auditorium design that reflects the beauty of knowledge proposed to be designed for my university, Caritas university’s already pre-existing auditorium structure. The idea brief was to redesign a new lecture theatre auditorium for the university where it space could be used to hold lectures, seminars, and catholic mass for the students and lecturers.

The concept of the lecture theatre, took its form in plan from a living sea turtle to express the endless age of knowledge and in its elevation from a lobster, in-elevation to annotate and balance the interior acoustic parameters of the shell structure. a large piece of this project was also inspired by the Sydney opera house in Sydney, Australia the idea in providing a friendly environment while learning.

the site is located in amorji-nike, emene, enugu state, nigeria. the site is situated in the university premises where the pre-exsiting structure resides surrounded by neighboring structure, green life and a steep slope

the lobster

the concept

the turtle the concept

The lecture theatre approximately accomodates 630 seats.

CHAPTER 3:

THE WORKING HOURS OF LIFE

The Feeding Fruit - Palm Oil Factory

As life comes in stages and time grows older, there reaches a stage in one’s youth or adulthood whereby he or she is required to work to make ends meet for survival in this world, however most times this stage is experienced before ones youth. This project emphasizes the working hours of life and portrays a feeding fruit that can be used to meet ends make in a hard economy like Nigeria’s own.

This is a proposed Palm oil factory design located in Nawfia, Njikoka local government, Anambra state, Nigeria which aims to utilize the natural resources of palm trees and palm fruits genetically present on the soils of Nawfia.

This project is a means to regenerate the country’s failed economy in the aspect of exporting mineral resources especially the exportation of palm oil and palm fruit which could help to give the country a kick aback into the race of leading countries that also export these same mineral resoucres.

It is also to be aimed at creating jobs for the working class, though it might not feed the whole country but is a starting point.

THE ADMIN

THE PALM OIL FACTORY

THE PALM OIL STORAGE SILO

CHAPTER 4:

THE END ROADS OF LIFE

A Wrinkle In Time - Home For The Elderly

There’s one thing amongst many that we cannot control, and that is “Time”. It always catches up to us whether we like it or not. As time runs up to us, a boy who was once young becomes no longer as young as he was as he gradually wrinkles in time.

Some people see this as a curse, and some see it as a blessing. The wrinkling in time is just, beauty and should be appreciated as a gift from God. As it’s said there’s “beauty in aging” and the people that are already in this wrinkling of time be it our parents, siblings, family, or strangers, matter.

This project emphasizes on homes that can accommodate our elderly citizens as they spend theie remaining productive years on earth with loved ones. The project idea was to create a small village-like community in Nawfia, Anambra state, Nigeria where our elderly citizens could be taken care of by medical caregivers in their private homes.

These homes are divided into two classes, A & B which are graded by the physical and medical performances of the elderly,

home - a

this home is designed for elderlies who have some physical challenges and find it difficult to carry on with daily activities independently without someone for assistance in this home, one care-givers is assigned for two elderly

home - b

this home is designed for elderlies who have little or no physical challenges and have less difficult in carrying out daily activities independently without someone to assistance in this home, two care-givers are assigned for three elderly

CHAPTER 5: A LIFE ENDS AND CONTINUES

Beauty For Ashes - Cemetery

Someone’s knocking at the door, who could that be at this hours of life? Could it be time already? Oh how time runs so fast, I didn’t even have time to prepare, Oh Lord please!!! please!!! forgive am so sorry.

The casements of my eyes begins to close, everything begins to get dark. Am so afraid. I began to ponder my past life. I could have done better, be more gentle in heart, be more devoted. Regrets!!!

Of sudden, I saw a beam of light rays blast upon my temple, and the darkness that surrounded me I saw no more as I rose into the Glorious Kingdom of Light.

This project is a proposed cemetery design which emphasize on a place to put to rest those who have lost their lives and find nowhere to be buried natively in their local hometowns, be it rejection in native tribes or difficulty in identifying the lost one. In Nigeria the concept of burying ones loved one in a cemetry is taboo, thats why this project aims to give a place for this soul to be put to rest as life continues beyond.

the CROSS

the CONCEPT

DESIGN PROGRAM

DESIGN CIRCULATION

SITE DIAGRAM

CHAPTER 6:

A GALLERY OF ART

A Skin of my skin

Art is just an expression of one’s heart, a reflection of the soul. It can be said that what we draw or create is what we are. To better clarify this statement “Your art is what is in your heart”.

A skin of my skin is an expression of art as an extension of one’s being and surroundings which he or she communicates through a medium.

In this gallery of art first page holds three art pieces expressed in 3 different mediums of choice. The first medium is a traditional style of art depicting the beauty of aging. The second medium is rendered in a 2d/ AI digital representation which was prompted to convey a comic book cover named “Police Story” which narrates a young life of a passionate police officer in a world rooted in corruption and destruction. And the third medium expresses the artwork in 3d of a robot named i Robot, which has a beating human heart with only one question in his heart “am I a human or just a robot?”

LIFE AND DEATH IS THE TONGUE

WORDS ARE VERY POWERFUL WEAPONS TO HEAL AND DESTROY, IT SHOULD BE APPLIED WITH CARE & LOVE.

DONT WAIL IN SHAME

IN TIMES OF DARKNESS, DESPIRE AND DEFEAT DON’T REMAIN IN THE COMFORT OF SHAME’S EMBRACE.

2022 type: personal type: personal

EVE IN THE GARDEN

MAN AND WOMAN IN THE BEGIINNING OF CREATION, WHERE ALL BEGAN IN THE GARDEN OF EDEN I WONDER WHAT IT WAS LIKE FOR ADAM AND HIS WIFE EVE.

EARNESTLY

SOMETIMES WE ALL SEARCH FOR SOMETHING MORE WORTHWHILE. IS THERE NOT SOMETHING MORE IN LIFE? “SIGH”, I TRY TO SEARCH FOR THE ONE WHO GIVES LIFE.

A PROFESSIONAL PRATICE IN COLLABORATIVE

A SHORT DISPLAY OVER THE YEARS OF MY EXPERIENCE ON SITE THROUGH VARIOUS FIRMS I HAVE WORKED UNDER. THE FIRST ROW OF DISPLAY ON THE TOP PAGE SHOWS THE CONSTRUCTION OF AN OFFICE BUILDING FOR CIVIL SERVANTS IN ASABA, DELTA STATE, NIGERIA. WHILE THE DISPLAY AT THE BOTTOM SHOWS THE EXPERIENCE DURING THE CONSTRUCTION OF ACCOMODATION FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS OBSERVING HOUSEMANSHIP IN FEDRAL MEDICAL CENTRE (F.M.C) ASABA, DELTA STATE, NIGERIA.

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As the windows of my soul opens, I see beauty

As the casements of my eyes closes I see eternity”

“Thank You Lord”