SEPLAT SPORTING/COMMERCIAL FACILITY, OGOMBO ROAD, LEKKI - LAGOS

Project Description:

This is a public building designed for the Staff  cooperative society of Seplat (formerly Exxon Mobil). The building is designed for a corner piece land measuring 3500sqm, along the popular Ogombo road.

The U-shaped structure prides a 32m  x 18m green pitch at its nucleus (central location), and about which other shopping facilities revolve. The typical floor feature shops of varying sizes (25-50sqm), and allocated around the centrally located pitch  which is designed for multiple outdoor games; (5-aside football, basketball, Badminton etc).

Typically, the shops parades a fixed glass exhibition facade, and visible for shoppers along the common shopping pathway connecting all shops. The facility of a large Eatery and supermarket is accommodate on the ground floor of this commercial edifice.

The typical floor feature a decentralised service core; a central core that accommodates the main stairs, lifts and the central reception area, and also the alternate core facility at the ends of the structure in accordance to building /safety codes.

A mini stadia-like gallery (Spectators Seating) is further featured on the ground floor and aborting the central sky-lit/covered pitch.

The exterior view of this facility is expressionistic of its function, and conveys the symbolic identity of a sporting arena as seen in Graffiti works and a  sky-lit geodesic dome capped over the central core. The facility is intended to serve the need of Seplat’s Staff, and also the local community where it will be located.

Project Cost : $1.4m

Project Status : Schematic Drawings completed

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