‘Born Throway’ is an art installation that attempts to reposition the voice and language of an urban demographic in the context of the contemporary city. It engages the life and communication culture of the youth demographic usually termed as ‘area boys’ with an aim of conveying their identity out of the obscurity-via-plain sight that the city has imposed on them. The pavilion is designed to accentuate this communication through a space of architecture that creates a layering of geometric metaphors born from the spatiality of low-income Lagos