Today I joined Peter Ferretto’s first year masters group to walk around Sham Shui Po, one of the poorest areas…

170914 CUHK Pin up NEED MORE  INFORMATION PRESENTED wider introduction of the project geographic: hospitality (this kind of) project – zooming…

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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…

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

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

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

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

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

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