PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL MAIDUGURI

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1983-06
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APAGU, ALI ABBAS
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It is evident that, there ore many Nigerians suffering from confirmed or unconfirmed mental problems. Those people require psychiatric consultation, treatment, and rehabilitation facilities. It is also evident that there are very little or no such facilities, at both Federal and State levels, in the country. The Federal government of Nigeria proposes to construct and furnish each State with a Psychiatric Hospital. The States are expected to meet the running and maintenance costs of these institutions. This thesis is intended to express how architectural planning, can help para-medical professionals in controlling mental health, by properly designing the hospital - milieu. The research scope includes; medical science, particularly in mental health, building technology, and psychiatric easthetic values. Medical science in mental health is expected to provide the Architect with the indepth trends in psychiatry (sort of get him mad). Building technology and easthetic values in psychiatry, will help to initiate the design concepts, and control the evolution of building systems and building forms. Patient's needs, Staff needs and patient's relatives or friends needs are the most significant design requirements. Also paramount is the proposal for a schedule of accommodation. Most important design considerations and iii solutions include; location of site, effects of building forms (building heights, structural systems, etc.) on patients and staff, and the use of colour, light, (artificial and natural), ventilation and noise control. In designing for the mentally ill, architectural concepts have been evolved to obtain a succession of a gradation of social milieus both at micro and macro levels, within the hospital site.
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A Thesis Submitted to the Postgraduate School, Ahmadu Bello University, in Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree of MASTERS OF SCIENCE Department of Architecture Faculty of Environmental Design Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria JUNE, 1983
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PSYCHIATRIC,, HOSPITAL
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