PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL MAIDUGURI
PSYCHIATRIC HOSPITAL MAIDUGURI
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1983-06
Authors
APAGU, ALI ABBAS
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Abstract
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
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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.
Description
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
Keywords
PSYCHIATRIC,, HOSPITAL