name: oladayo oladunjoye

redesigning the temporal email: oladayooladunjoye@gmail.com

nationality: nigerian

Intervention
Redesigning the temporal is defining a
new look to the cities of Africa. Its a
design that looks into the temporality of
spaces in Africa, and an intervention to
an urban problem that is persistent in
most cities in Africa. It looks into spaces
such as road side shops, open spaces,
streets, and temporal spaces. Infrastruc-
ture - transportation - Social interaction –
permanent – temporality, are the key-
words here and as an urban intervention
In a city where everything happens in the
outdoor space, in the open, a city where
the indoor spaces are left for private ac-
tivities and specific programmes and the
outdoor spaces is used up by pro-
grammes that emerges out of no pro-
grammes, a city where there are no
empty spaces, and where every space is
used up by the people, and the people
are consumed by every space, a city
oshodi, lagos Nigeria
where spaces is temporal and where ac-
tivities emerges.

With the growing tensions between what

is permanent and what is temporal in the
cities, there is a need for redesign the
temporal. Rather than literarily designing
a temporal space or structure, this proj-
ect only suggests that there is a need for
redesigning the temporal – such as
shops, tents as this in the overall affects
the image of African cities.

Design
In order to effectively redesign the tem- basic section of temporal space
poral spaces, looking at questions such
as; how are these spaces used? How
easy is the construction? Who are the
people that use this space? What kind of
social experience emerges? Using the
conceptual logic of geometry manipula-
tion, the design proposes one way in
which the temporal spaces could be de-
signed. Without taking much away from
the fact that its still a temporal space.

impression of a temporal space

series of sections of temporal space

temporal spaces being used