There are several aims behind joining CUHK for the final fieldwork semester. Working at an institution is intended to support … More

Between 2017 and 2018 I worked as an in-house fitout designer for Emilia’s second restaurant. Together with the interior designer … More

A recent BBC report includes several opinions about the necessity to ‘build upwards’ to address Lagos’s uncontrolled and destructive urban sprawl, … More

In order to help myself thinking about the upcoming implementation essay I did a presentation at my old office, specifically … More

Model to represent seasonal adaptivity:

Today I joined the Raincoat roofing team again in order to sample some of the new parts of Accra. After … More

This morning I was at the border of the greater Accra region. Two years ago the Ghanian president started the … More

Notes made in the meeting with the Accra main masterplanning authority. I met with three young planners two of whom … More

Today I met Prof. Alex Asiedu, Ghanaian geographer who studied urban planning, lived in Japan and has an interest in … More

Roughly 500 years old, the castle was established by the Portuguese, initially for the purposes of slave trade. It was … More

Today I joined the Raincoat surveying team to see the new developments happening in the North West of Accra region. … More

The Raincoat factory director showed me one of his side projects, an office building in Oyarifa area in the Eastern … More

This morning I visited a roofing company who supply profiled zinc roofs to most of Ghana, parts of Burkina Faso … More

During my first evening in Accra I happened to meet the spokesman of the principal Stool (chief) of Nungua.From a … More

Below: I wasn’t quick enough to jump into Uber and he got clamped Below: some context of estate where I’ll … More

Today I leave Lagos, Nigeria, where I spent the last two months. Below is a little summary of my thoughts … More

 Baale’s son and I took a boat journey to photograph my site from the water. Although the site itself was … More

Today I went to make a thorough survey of Prince Ojupon’s site. Partially sandfilled from the neighbouring dredging site (for … More

According to K. Whiteman, ‘The island is now a bizarre and dysfunctional mix of the wilderness of skyscrapers, street markets, … More

Having confirmed  Prince Ojupon’s site as the most suitable one with the course director at Cambridge  I have undertaken a repeated … More

‘No one would have planned to build an enormous city on the basis of such an unusual configuration of lagoon … More

Photographed in the traffic near the Lagos Port

Much of Lekki  is an artificial landscape, sand-filled swamps and reclaimed areas of the Lagoon. However some of the developers … More

When a process similar to UK’s planning application takes place, documents are submitted to a local planning office, where a … More

Built before indépendance, currently a disfunctional 140 room hotel with a large site near Oyingbo market and lagos terminus station, … More

Today I went to see a large site suggested by Dr Jerry from Unilag. The site is one of the more vulnerable … More

Today I visited the Landmark centre, an assembly of buildings and facilities striving to permit its guests to ‘Live, Work … More

Previous hospitality institutions I visited, the Wavecrest College, the Lagoon hospital and Iroto school appeared to be well-looked after, spacious … More

prince Ojupon of Ajah, civil engineer by training, showed me a different site of a suitable area, previously owned by … More

Lekki Peninsula is a barrier island in a location where the Atlantic’s waves and currents are particularly strong and consistent … More

Today I continued my work with the traditional families established in the older part of Lekki. One of the chiefs, … More