RESIDENTS of Makoko-IwayaCommunity have appealed to
the Lagos state government to
revoke its order and allow the
Makoko floating school, a
three-storey wooden structure commence academic activities.
This came as the floatingschool received nomination for
the Designs of the Year 2014
award, an award which is
overseen by London’s Design Museum. The state government through
the Commissioner for
Waterfront and InfrastructureDevelopment, Prince Adesegun
Oniru had last year said that
the structure is an illegal structure, adding “it shouldn’t
be there, and we are trying to
get rid of structures there.” Recycled plastic barrels
The floating school buoyed by
256 recycled plastic barrels,
was constructed by Mr. Kunle
Adeyemi, the founder of NLE
works, a Netherland based architectural company; was yet
to be demolished.
floating school, an initiative
supported by the United Nation
Development Programme, UNDP, was expected to kick
start the regeneration of the
community. The floating school would be
competing with 14 other
structures selected from all
over the world such as Child
chemo house from Japan,
Heydar Aliyev center in Azerbaijan, Museo Jumex,
Mexico city and Wa Shan
guesthouse, Hangzhou, China. Describing the school, theorganizers of the award said
that the structure is a
prototype floating structure,
built for the historic water
community of Makoko, Nigeria, adding; “The school takes an
innovative, cheap and
sustainable approach to
address the community’s
specific social and physical
needs.” The floating school is expected
to accommodate 100 children
who will navigate to the school
by boat. Adeyemi who spoke to
Vanguard from his Netherland
office recently, said; “The
desire to construct the school
was burn out of curiosity after
I visited the community. And my interest in the coastal
community, where despite the
little income made daily by the
breadwinners, they have never
stopped developing the
infrastructures in the community.” Explaining
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