Designs I love and hate

The design I love:

The Makoko floating school is a school built on the lagoon water in Nigeria, it provides access to education for the local children, they can learn and play in the classrooms of the floating school. The school is made out of sustainable materials, for example, they use recycled barrels as the base of the school to make it float. I think it really addressed the current situation of global warming and poverty, as the sea level rises, poor people are forced to live on the water and their life became more and more complicated. The aim of the Makoko floating school is to educate the children and help them to break the poverty cycle when they grow up.

However, the Makoko floating school collapsed in 2016 due to the heavy rain. But overall, it is a good idea of trying to improve people's life in Makoko, maybe the designer should change the structure of the school to make it stronger.

The design I hate:

I guess everyone must have faced the same problem as me before, sometimes wardrobes are built in an angle, the problem with that is when you open one of the drawers, then you are not able to open another as they often crash into each other. I guess the worst scenario for this situation is in my kitchen. I will not be able to grab a spoon and grab the salt at the same time because the drawers can't open at the same time, and I have to take them one by one, and it wastes lots of time, it's just not ergonomic.

To improve that problem, probably changing the drawers into an open cabinet might help, as it will be easier to get the things you want.

Reference:

Nigeria's Makoko Floating School - Everything you need to know. (2020, January 22). Retrieved April 1, 2020, from https://publicdelivery.org/makoko-floating-school/

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