CONFERENCE CENTRE AND HOTEL LAGOS - Proposals for a contemporary Nigerian Architecture

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1985-08
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AGBOOLA, OLUFEMI ABAYOMI
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What role can professionals in the building industry play in the current drive for nationalism? There have been calls for further development of our local building materials so as to reduce soaring building costs. Unfortunately, this is a specialized field in which the architect cannot participate fully, Nigeria has been blessed with an architectural history which can be further developed with todays technology. It is believed that this is within the architects sphere of influence. This is the motivation behind this thesis, its essence being to evolve a 'syntax' for contemporary Nigerian architecture, A conference hotel has been chosen to practicalise the proposal as it would give an opportunity to bring out most, if not all of its characteristics, PHILOSOPHY Adictionary defines a conference as an appointed meeting for consultation or discussion. It is of special interest to all organisations being a productive method of organising research and results. The conference also acts as a setting for national and international co-operation. As such a conference hotel is a facility which primarily provides facilities for such activities, Lagos being the most cosmopolitan state of the country requires such facilities as numerous conference are always being organized, GOALS 1. To provide by means of a study of traditional architecture and other societal factors a synthesis which would form the basis of an edifice which we can relate to in design concept, 2. To provide an arhitectural space consistent and conducive to the aforementioned definition of a conference complete with support facilities for the eventual users to work, live and relax, SCOPE Broadly defined, the project will consist of a conference centre and a hotel. As the conference centre should be capable of hosting international conference, it would have all the necessary support facilities, ARCHITECTURAL SIGNIFICANCE A public building such as a conference centre will eventually attract dignitaries, tourists and other categories of clientele, As such, its architecture should be an event in itself. For the purpose of this thesis, it is being used to experiment the theories behind the proposals for a contemporary Nigerian architecture. As such it sould be seen as an attempt to project an architecture that has a deep rooted history in tradition, CONCLUSION Certain architectural critics notable charles Jencks have talked about the death of modern architecture. Various schools of thought - post modernism, neo-classism have also grown since the later half Of the 20th Century. The general idea is that architecture should retrace its steps back to tradition. This thesis is an attempt to evolve such an architecture for Nigeria, the conference hotel being one of the many public facilities that could be used to experiment with the evolved concepts,
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A thesis submitted to the Postgraduate School, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria in partial fulfillment of the requirements for the award of the M,Sc (Architecture) degree. Department of Architecture Faculty of Environmental Design Ahmadu Bello University Zaria, Nigeria.
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CONFERENCE,, CENTRE,, HOTEL,, LAGOS,, Proposals,, contemporary,, Nigerian,, Architecture
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