81 GROHE Magazine 80 P u re F re u de an Was se rur Freude an Wasser the wild open nature offers a protected yet free place for young minds Adeyemi s commitment to solving the concep tual and practical issues in a global urbanizing world has earned him high praise from the ar chitectural community For 2017 he was named the Aga Khan Design Critic in Architecture at Harvard University Graduate School of Design one of his many academic contributions and has served on the jury of prizes for the RIBA and AIA Moreover the Makoko Floating School s second incarnation the MFS II won the esteemed Silver Lion at the 2016 Venice Ar chitecture Biennale This second iteration is now the only remaining version the original being a prototype and luckily out of commis sion after it was unfortunately destroyed in heavy rains in 2016 This storm only proved the precarity of building in a place susceptible to a changing climate Its abrupt collapse showed the importance of an ongoing investment that learns and develops as it goes along The inno vation of Makoko Floating School came not only from us but largely from the community itself Adeyemi told Architectural Digest We were simply agents to compose those ideas into a new form or an improvement of what s already existing the architects of the future will begin to be seen more as agents of change No matter which way the wind blows and whether the tide is in or out it s Adeyemi s sustainable focus on community development that gives his ideas real staying power For the Makoko Floating School a triangular profile was constructed out of locally sourced wood and added to a flotation platform that keeps it above water Now based in the Netherlands undeniably the world capital of floating architecture Adeyemi is nevertheless committed to bringing Dutch and European aquatic insights to developing countries as well as utilizing urban strategies that can be gleaned from an African urban con text Adeyemi continued his work on buoyant buildings further down Nigeria s coastline this time with Chicoco Radio a floating media plat form in the Rivers State capital of Port Harcourt Again the building used entirely locally sourced materials and is run owned and operated by the area s residents This integration into the population was crucial to Adeyemi and his team who spent a number of years on the pro cess of discussion and focus groups to ensure stakeholders needs were met The final design includes a mast that cantilevers a bridge down into the water a gateway between residents past on land and their future on water Despite these H2O friendly structures Adeyemi is at pains to point out that his practice is not all about floating architecture That s not what my practice is focused on he told Copenhagen s Louisiana Museum of Contemporary Art It s really the relationship between water and the city between water and humans In fact his CV shows that he is equally committed to all kinds of public space One of his projects cur rently under construcution is The Black Rhino Academy in Karatu Tanzania a primary and secondary boarding school campus that is con ceived as an immersive experience for learning from nature With three different islands dedicated to play living and learning Three stories tall the school offered an education space as well as a community hub for local residents

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