Otunba Offices
Program/ Offices
Location/ Lagos, Nigeria
Built Area/ 8,000sqm
Credit List/ Karim Fakhry, Jean Nmeir, Abeer Fanous,
Rami Khoueiry, Roland Nassour
Status/ Under Construction
Year/ 2020
Can the absence of code enable climate-responsive innovation?
The Otumba project utilizes context and natural climate as generative tools to challenge the prevalent office typology. The built volume expands every two floors on the south and east façade and creates a volumetric brise-soleil shading the offices below and sheltering the public areas.
Envisioning a new climate-responsive typology as an answer to the absence of sustainability in building codes
