McArthur Floating School - NLÉ Works
While in student leadership: on the board of GASA (Graduate Architecture Student Association), my partner and I became part of the student volunteer leadership of this unique project.
The Floating School is a design by architect Kunlé Adeyemi, who designed the first version of this project for Makoko, Lagos, Nigeria. It was used as a primary school that would be resistant to the constant rising of waterlevels.
Versions of the project have been built all over the world, such as at the Venice Biennale, the Brugge Triennial and in threefold in China.
This was the first time in the United States and would be built in McArthur Park in Los Angeles. The kit of parts had arrived from Bruges in a shipping container and would be rebuilt with local volunteers (mostly students), with only the foam on which it would float as a new addition.
Unfortunately the project was cut short due to COVID-19. The global pandemic caused the project to get cancelled all together.
