STRATEGIC
PLACEMAKING

Flexible Strategies To Meet Diverse Community Needs

Community Cluster

A fluid arrangement, providing green spaces, ample ground floor commercial space, and efficient staging.

Local Bloc

A complete building bloc creates a contiguous community with opportunities for interaction and exchange across diverse programming.

The Principles

  • Create a sustainable and marketable growth industry based on the repurposing of decommissioned shipping containers for housing and commercial use. Create a regional growth industry dedicated to innovative housing infrastructure.

  • Create an ecologically focused urban development that catalyzes local and sustainable growth through innovation.

    Minimize reliance on off-site infrastructure; energy, waste processing and removal.

    Target a carbon neutral and energy harvesting environment.

  • Leverage planning that facilitates physical and digital infrastructure in support of symbiotic industries.

    Provide a highly flexible range of commercial environments: retail, distribution and warehousing, entertainment etc.

    Encourage economic circularity

  • Leverage scalable modularity (shipping container modules) to align with domestic and foreign investment cycles

    Leverage scalable modularity to respond in real time to market opportunities, emerging trends and new demand.

  • Leverage innovation and circular pathways to ensure a net positive environmental and cultural impact to the local environment. Infrastructure planning and systems will exhibit energy production and independence, on site waste management, water collection.

Get Involved

Any strategy or campaign is only as good as its contributors. We believe that Accra’s local and global talent base, energy, youthful population and progressive leadership are the cornerstones to the city’s and country’s bright future. Legacy challenges - housing, infrastructure, and environmental management, of the city can only be addressed through truly innovative measures. Our principles are simply the foundation of work to come. Continuing to advance locally derived and collaborative urban innovation requires a diversity of thought, experiences, talent and expertise. We welcome and encourage everyone and all - individuals, organizations, companies and governing bodies to get involved to advance this AAP Accra mission of meeting the needs and providing the infrastructure of accessible housing and the many complementary benefits it comes with to ensure equitable growth and prosperity.