Identity plays a key role in the concept of otherness. Establishing racism as a hyperobject and studying ‘Deep Adaptation' by Jem Bendell, it is evident that we need to mobilise a new system of living and operating, if not society will collapse. Especially as this concept of otherness is universal. This project aims to deconstruct the core conflict of ‘otherness’ between nomadic and host farmer communities in the context of Kano through a traditional concept of communal ownership. This weakening of the concept of the other shifts away from the western world vs African and deals with the narrative of migration on a specific level within the context of domesticity. Through a system of spatial arrangements and visual connections, a new iteration of the Gandu is created. It is a compound accompanied with land that provides a source of income, but also integrates the semi nomads, and repositions the women within the compound. This is a project that deals with the whole village but zooms into three main sections – the compound, the shared land and the corral. With a decrease in rainfall and increase in temperature, one can start to look at migration as a form of adaptation.