YO:MA CONCRETE OR BEACHES, THE DEATH AND RISE OF ARCHITECTURE. FROM SAND YOU HAVE COME. TO SAND YOU SHALL RETURN.FROM A BROAD PALETTE OF WONDROUS MATERIALS THAT IMPLODES THE LIMITATIONS OF STANDARD SOLUTIONS, YOU SHALL RISE AGAIN. THE WORLD CAN'T SUSTAIN ONE-WAY THINKING, JUST AS IT CAN'T SUSTAIN ONE-WAY CONSUMPTION, AS THIS LEAVES THE WORLD TREMBLING ON ONE LEG, CREATING A SHAKY FOUNDATION.IN THE SAME WAY THAT THE STEAK ON YOUR PLATE IS FINDING ALTERNATIVES, SO IS THE SANDWICH ELEMENT OF THE WALL. WHAT WAS ONCE LIMITED BY A GIVEN IS NOW A DIVERSE PALETTE OF OPTIONS, ALLOWING FOR FURTHER CONSIDERATIONS INTO LOCAL RESOURCES, CLIMATE, AND THE NEEDS OF PEOPLE, AND IT ALL SEEMS BEAUTIFULLY CHOREOGRAPHED AS THE VARIOUS ELEMENTS ALIGNS, REWINDING ARCHITECTURE AND THE WORLD AHEAD.
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CHURCH KIT,  LAGOS
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How to combat the issues Nigeria is facing:

With roughly more than 200 ethnic groups, 500 different languges - Hausa, Yoruba and Igbo - one of the largest populations of both christians and muslims - this little chapel - stands in comparison, as a very small proposal, but one that adresses a fundamental issue of our society - one where we focus on differences, rather than the simple fact that we are all human - no matter ethnic heritage or religious disposition.

Acknowledging this, sheds light on the profane and sacred part of human life. The sacred adresses everything, which is not inherited, that human layer underneath.

The space of the chapel holds an important role as a sacred pocket in the profane - one that momentarily holds the capacity to re-establish the fundamentals of reality.
When we think of a football game, this is what is happening, we have agreed, that when you cross the white line, a different set of rules apply. This momentarily carves out a pocket to an alternative world. The same goes for the little chapel. Here we agree that the illusionary differences we stubbornly identify with dissolves when you enter - accessing that human layer underneath. The central axis of the chapel begins and ends with nature.

If we want to address issues of the present. It is fundamental that we put our differences aside, so we can engage across all assumed boundaries and tackle whatever is at hand.