The urban paradox of Lagos is the starting point of our argument. We propose to build a contemporary landscape based on the tradition by preserving the memory of Olulosun Landfill.

By generating a connecting shaft, the project is based on the Yoruba compound urban model, this way protecting a central space surrounded by a perimetral construction occupied by different community services and uses. This project tries to keep the Olulosun Landfill legacy, the former footprint is so important that deserves to stay as an anchor point for Lagos.

The project strategy is based on this idea, drawing  gentle tangent rings that gravitate over the landfill topography creating different perceptions of the landscape while people circulate over them. The interior spaces that enclosed this circulation rings are protected from the dizzy growing of this megapolis. These spaces are intended to the community as a sort of calm places to stay, to make sport, to cultivate or to be a multi-purpose area for the schools around.

Waste(d) opportunity
The project is not just perched on the territoy by preserving the former landfill hills, now green hills, but a more complex strategy that turn all the area into a productive park from a series of vertical collectors hat extract and distribute the energy from the landfill ground by the methanization proccess. All the rings serve to re-circulate the energy and bring it back  the city.

The Non National Stadium
In Lagos there are no typologies, the classic typology of stadium has been adapted to this context incorporating the unpredictable fact.  We imagine a place where the informal markets can occur as it grows on the cloverleaves of the big highways that crossed the city. Informal spaces between circulation that held spontaneaus activity.

The new non-stadium follows this ambition, sinking into the former landfill enhancing the Landscape and facilitating the activity on the superior perimetral ring. Inside this excavated void, a ramp crossed the tiers unwrapping them and creating an accesible promenade where new activity can happen (during/or not) matches.