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thisbigcity: txchnologist: by Michael Keller Hope Floats This...

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Makoko Floating School from above. Those living in the estuarine neighborhood's stilt houses commute via gondolas and canoes.

A view of Makoko Floating School in Lagos Lagoon, Nigeria.

A view of Makoko Floating School in Lagos Lagoon, Nigeria.

This diagram shows the slum's stilt houses and flotation technology combined to make the school.

A drawing of the energy and rain harvesting systems that are at work in the ecofriendly school.

An artist's concept of the Lagos Water Communities Project. It shows a floating village that could be built to join the Makoko Floating School.

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by Michael Keller

Hope Floats

This Nigerian school is set to rise. The floating structure was built by Dutch and Nigerian architecture, design and urbanism firm NLÉ to serve the slum neighborhood of Makoko, much of which exists on stilts above a lagoon in the port city of Lagos. Looking to mitigate the compounding problem of massive population movements to urban areas and the realities of climate change, NLÉ built the school as a prototype for a broader urban planning initiative called Lagos Water Communities Project.

Their design conforms to the local necessity of building houses on stilts above the lagoon with flotation platforms crafted from 256 common plastic barrels. This will allow the three-story primary school to rise along with sea level due to climate change or rainfall. The architects also designed it to provide natural ventilation, water from a rain collection system and power from rooftop solar panels to occupants. The almost 2,400 square-foot bamboo and wood building can safely hold up to 100 students.

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Leave it to a Dutch firm to take the lead on a sea level rise adaptation project! Hopefully more coastal cities see projects such as this and get inspired to start experimenting with adaptive design.

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thisbigcity: This graphic sets 29 of the world’s largest bike...

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This graphic sets 29 of the world’s largest bike share systems to the same scale, thus making it easy compare at a glance the different densities and footprints of docking station layouts across the globe. And because it’s awesome, it also moves from most to fewest number of docking stations. Ottawa’s got a ways to go before it catches up to Paris!

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Here’s my lovely tutor =) He is the most industrious,...

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Here’s my lovely tutor =)

He is the most industrious, patient, generous, gentleman, funny, helpful, intelligent, smart, kind, sincere, faithful, sweet and loving tutor I’d ever met. Lol. maybe because he is my only tutor. hahahahahaha.

I’m very proud of him bilang “Siya”. Siguro kung mas makikilala siya ng ibang tao, i mean yung personality nya, madaming hahanga. I never thought of that at first actually, but now that I knew him a lot, im saying these things about him. Actually he is a consistent top4 of batch 09 as he took the course of Electrical Engineering in Mapua. It was never easy in this school as in but he is now close to what he really wants to achieve in life.

He serves as my inspiration for he was not just an achiever but he also has the heart of gold. Yeah, I can say that for he proved it many times already. He is awesome and im sure of that! =)

He’s now graduating, hopefully this year na and were praying for that together :) hihi.