Osu Beachfront

Osu Beachfront is part of an ongoing personal journal on urban life at the edges of formal planning. In another economic context, a seafront site of this kind in a capital city would likely be prime real estate, shaped by controlled development.

Here, the coastline follows a different logic. The sea acts as the backdrop to an improvised agricultural settlement: a community whose legal status remains ambiguous, extending toward the dunes and organising daily life from the inside out. Farming, shelter, circulation and social occupation overlap without the clear separations usually imposed by formal planning.

Read alongside a nearby coastal community where fishing is the main livelihood, the site reveals another form of spontaneous urbanism.