Author(s)/Creator(s)

Nathan Jones

Document Type

Thesis, Senior

Degree

B. ARCH

Date

Spring 2014

Keywords

Welfare, City, Density, Jones, Lagos

Language

English

Disciplines

Architecture

Description/Abstract

"Compound City" will focus on the implementation of an open source, social infrastructure, as a methodology in addressing the on-going urban crisis in Lagos. Dealing primarily with urban informality, Lagos will serve as a theoretical testbed, providing a natural precedent in which to test these ideas. How can open source technologies - softwares & hardwares - subvert or embrace existing infrastructures/processes as a means of alleviating inadequate living conditions? Identifying the coincidental pressures in Lagos will help establish project parameters, driving the development of design criteria to be addressed by the new, open source, platform.

Additional Information

Thesis Advisers: Bess Krietemeyer, Joseph Godlewski

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