Jabi Lake

Location: Abuja, Nigeria
Scope: Masterplan: Residential + Offices + Retail
Area: 36ha
Client: Metis Capital Partners + Duval Properties
Architect: Studio Seilern Architects
Local Architect: Yakubu Dimka
Services Engineer: Buro Happold
Landscape Architect: Hyland Edgar Driver
Cost Management: Currie & Brown
Security Consultant: IDQ Security
Visualizations: Panoptikon

The Jabi Lake Masterplan is a three and a half kilometre, 36 hectare waterfront site incorporating two hotels, a cinema, retail mall, restaurants, offices and residential accommodation, with a strong public infrastructure and pedestrian environment. It will be a key component for Nigeria’s regional economic development.

An important concept was the creation of a waterfront promenade that connects the elements of the site both to each other and to the rest of the lake, ensuring that this is a flexible and open development. The marketability of the site is further enhanced by the opening up of plots from this boardwalk into the water. Rather than a waterfront promenade, the waterfront park with three themed areas, varies in size and activities, and aims to create a truly vibrant public space.