Mt. Kenya is the second highest Mountain in Africa, it is located within Mt.Kenya National Park which is a world heritage site that boasts of endemic flora species, fauna (elephants mountain leopards etc). These attributes make it a prime attraction to local and foreign tourists.

The project is built on the artificially built Island on the Bank of the Blue Nile river in Baherdar. It comprises: A regional Parliament hall, a 12 Story council office, a Convention center with 11 meeting halls ranging from 50 seats to 2000 seats capacity.

A visual research methodology was applied to investigate in-situ informal settlements 'retrofitting' that is user-specific, site-specific, micro-scale, affordable, smart, light and scalable infrastructures that enable, support and strengthen the growth of existing micro-scale socio-economic activities: creating/cultivating an enabling architecture/platform for already occurring ‘events’ and ‘everyday’ rituals in the informal settlement.

The Cave as a geological structure and space is ingrained in our prehistoric consciousness, it influences
the way we perceive and define the world around us. Humanity’s early experience of inside and outside,
the nave, the light well, shafts, chambers, echoes, among many other architectural experiences and features
can be directly connected to our ancestor’s encounter with caves and associated networks across the ages.
Recorded histories of religious revelations within caves, to philosophical metaphors and narratives about
emergence from caves, have formed an intrinsic part of humanity’s past and present. As we fast forward
to the postcolonial African city“caves” made by men and women have broadened onto a rural and urban
network that is both introvert and extrovert in articulation; and with varying degrees of complexity. The city like the caves are dynamic and complex, both having changed over time, albeit with varying geological time lines. The proposed geological age we live in “The Anthropocene” now brings this anthropological and geological relationship to the forefront, requiring more holistic modes of enquiry surrounding the city.

The project explores the interplay between physical space and the experiences of stages of migration. It takes on the form of a pit-stop for migrants. The project questions and highlights laws of entry and exit and manipulates rules from the conventional harbor or airport, as a critique on current border-policing.

The Floating Zebra, coined by Cave is the beginning of a broader project to improve public space in Dandora phase 2 and beyond. The plans include the improvement of a vast neglected power riparian leave way to create a public park that links abandoned industrial sheds to the south, with the infamous Dandora dump site to the north; one of the largest in Africa, synonymous with crime and drug cartels that the community wants to transform. The idea itself was spawned by two boys in the community who drew a pergola like gateway over Justen street, which Cave interpreted as a floating zebra crossing that casts a moving shadow of stripes on the street. It is a structure that is part public art, part reconstructed street safety utility, signaling the community’s drive to determine what public space means to them.

The NIGERIA ELEVATION TOWER is a building with a striking helical shape, turning 180 degrees over the course of its height. Each floor is identical in plan, but is set 2.4 degrees clockwise from the floor below, giving the tower a distinctive form by way of an innovative, efficient, repeatable structure.

Architecture that EDUCATES
The American International School of Mozambique in Maputo.

HEALTHY LEARNINGS
Importance of school environments –Design to have a direct impact and correlation with students learning potential and results.
Layout of the facilities, adding state of the art, sustainable healthy learning facilities, re-organised into separate mini-campuses.

As part of our ongoing research into Caves, we have published a short film that charts a survey of the Mbai Caves network, in Paradise Lost, Nairobi, Kenya.

Through a simple survey of an innocuous cave in Africa, we discuss architecture from a geological, political and cultural standpoint. Our "wild" proposition is to begin curating from here the vast network of evidence or in fact artefact sites of humanity's impact on this planet. Cultural events in the
arts would be integrated to bring greater awareness to the age we live in.