Marking a new chapter in resilient architecture in high water zones for vulnerable coastal cities, Nigerian architect Kunle Adeyemi, in conjunction with his Lagos and New Amsterdam-based firm NLE, has designed modular floating homes linked into neighborhoods, and perhaps even entire floating cities. Currently many people in the Makoko neighborhood of Lagos, Nigeria live in rickety shanties perched on stilts in a lagoon, which is home to some 150,000. Residents move around in canoes, and land is reclaimed by adding sawdust to mounds of trash, as theweek.com informs MHProNews.com. While the government has demolished some 500 homes, having declared the community illegal, the action deprived many of a place to live and has stopped the demolition. ##

(Image credit: theweek.com/ Modular floating city in Nigeria)