Bët-bi Museum offered an opportunity to design a new type of museum that is inspired by the roots and spiritual legacy of the region. It offered a chance to push the boundaries of what defines a museum in the 21 century.

By increasing density, Niamey 2000 proposes a new model for urban housing inspired by the region’s pre-colonial cities, which were all dense urban centers in their day.

Bët-bi Museum honors the memory of the 11th century Saloum Kingdom and commemorates the indigenous relationship between humans, ancestral spirits, and the natural elements.

Niamey Cultural Center honors Hausa and Songhai traditional architecture with a design that puts a strong emphasis on climate mitigation solutions and sustainable practices of using local materials.

Artisans Valley is conceptualized as a large-scale permanent installation in the middle of the city. It consists of a series of seemingly fragile shells inspired by Niger’s rural cylindrical clay granary clusters.

The Kollo Elementary School classroom blocks are separated from one another, allowing planting in between, and the new type of compound wall opens the site up to the farmland all around.

The Mobile Loitering proposal uses the public realm in an opportunistic manner employing tactics similar to those developed by street hawkers and other informal actors in many African cities to site destinations such as study carrels, fitness venues/ amphitheaters, a market, as well as outreach program spaces.