Wakanda’s Afro-Futuristic “Masterplan”: An Ecosystem of Flexible BIM Structures for Urban Nomads


Image by Matri-Archi(tecture), 2019

Image by Matri-Archi(tecture), 2019

The second machine age, gender-based violence, global south, developing cities, poor infrastructure, influx, digitization, sustainability, Afro-futurism? We keep hearing the buzzwords over and over again but what does it all mean? How do these notions intersect spatially in response to the needs of future city developments? Cities are like ecosystems, collectively dependent on the surrounding environment. The larger and more complex they become, the greater the pressures and repercussions, namely: population growth, urban expansion, and physical resource scarcity. 

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