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Investigations Library: Active Case Files
Phase: Baseline Environmental Analysis
Focus: The thermodynamic failure of Portland cement in the tropics and the baseline metrics of high-mass earth systems.
Phase: Forensic Extraction & Synthesis
Focus: Decoding the Impluvium Courtyard. Analyzing passive cooling, the Stack Effect, and hydraulic harvesting in the Yoruba/Tropical Savanna transect.
Phase: Digital Translation & Applied Architecture
Focus: Rainforest CEB Deployment. A live design-build prototype at the Touch Root Vocational Center in Enugu (The Nri Kingdom).
THE RESEARCH PIPELINE
The A|WA Investigations Library operates as the central repository for our active forensic and applied research. We categorize our work not as traditional architectural design projects, but as sequential, empirical studies. Each Case File represents a targeted operational phase along the West African climatic transect —moving systematically from the extraction of indigenous thermodynamic data to the physical deployment of post-carbon material assemblies.
Our methodology is divided into three distinct operational phases:
Phase I (Forensics): Identifying the climatic failure of imported building materials and extracting the performance metrics of pre-colonial typologies using LiDAR and thermal imaging.
Phase II (Translation): Digitizing historical data into parametric models, optimizing geometry through Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD), and prototyping physical assemblies in advanced fabrication labs.
Phase III (Application): Deploying digitally optimized, localized material systems—such as Compressed Earth Blocks (CEBs)—into live, instrumented test sites across Nigeria.
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