Mobile Transactions Architecture: Lagos---rethinking the drive through market
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description: MOBILE TRANSACTIONS ARCHITECTURE learns from Lagos' "publiccongestion" infrastructures to create a new architectural typology: The drive through market, an intensification of the interchange market phenomenon. It anticipates a greater densification of the Lagos megalopolis by appropriating the site of future superstructure abutments connecting the Island to the mainland. The principal design approach renegotiates and de-optimizes the existing motorway interchange geometry and technology to facilitate a flexible and dynamic public space of both mobility and commerce activity, giving Lagos a liberating opportunity to legitimize informal street trade and regularize its economy. This thesis projects an ambition for an architecture of percolation, a flowscape that simultaneously accommodates conveyance and interaction to facilitate an unprecedented magnitude of collective inhabitation.
abstract: MOBILE TRANSACTIONS ARCHITECTURE learns from Lagos' "publiccongestion" infrastructures to create a new architectural typology: The drive through market, an intensification of the interchange market phenomenon. It anticipates a greater densification of the Lagos megalopolis by appropriating the site of future superstructure abutments connecting the Island to the mainland. The principal design approach renegotiates and de-optimizes the existing motorway interchange geometry and technology to facilitate a flexible and dynamic public space of both mobility and commerce activity, giving Lagos a liberating opportunity to legitimize informal street trade and regularize its economy. This thesis projects an ambition for an architecture of percolation, a flowscape that simultaneously accommodates conveyance and interaction to facilitate an unprecedented magnitude of collective inhabitation.
author: Mokwe, Nkiruka Nicole
language: eng
keywords: Cultural anthropology, Landscape architecture, Architecture, Arts, Anthropology
date published: 2009
date modified: 2026-07-24T04:10:28Z
provider: Rice University
publisher: Networked Digital Library of Theses and Dissertations
type: WebPage
source organization: Rice University

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