A MULTI-PURPOSE AUDITORIUM COMPLEX FOR AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA (An Architectural Investigation into the Use and Aesthetics of Cable Structures)
A MULTI-PURPOSE AUDITORIUM COMPLEX FOR AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA (An Architectural Investigation into the Use and Aesthetics of Cable Structures)
| dc.contributor.author | MAMMAN, LAMINA MOHAMMED | |
| dc.date.accessioned | 2014-03-06T08:16:21Z | |
| dc.date.available | 2014-03-06T08:16:21Z | |
| dc.date.issued | 1987-07 | |
| dc.description | A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL, IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA JULY, 1987 | en_US |
| dc.description.abstract | Space utilization within the 80s in Ahmadu Bello University has created the need to utilize the available resources at its disposal effectively. This problem has given the awareness to the administrators to understand the use pattern of the community (students and staff). To understand the use pattern, facilities both social and academic were surveyed as reported in the master plan proposal scheme. The report showed that the upsurge in the campus population has demanded the need to make available those facilities necessary to permit the good operation of the campus system. A multi-purpose auditorium complex is therefore proposed to accommodate the social and academic requirements of the community and to also operate as an autonomous institution where revenue would be generated from the auxiliary facilities that would be provided within the complex. The introductory chapter shows the problem definition of the thesis and also looked at the contributory part of the thesis which is mainly theatre planning by understanding the intricate roofing elements which directed the researcher to make a research into the use of tensile structure. The research looks at the advantages, problems form, structures, aesthetics, economy and the limitation of tensile technology. Chapter two has tried to show the contextual development of theatre as an art both in Western and African idiom, and also to understand how the next generation of designers would draw a hybrid space between the western and the traditional theatre for a true regional theatre architecture. In chapter three various parameters to theatre planning were analysed, this include the sight line, acoustics, acoustical materials, space morphology etc., all these components have become the guiding principle of the design. The survey on recreational planning was analysed in chapter four, to see how various factors of design come into play in the execution of an effective recreational scheme. This looks at recreation in A.B.U, and also made recommendations on some planning defects. The understanding of existing situation has brought in the case study technique treated in chapter five. Local case studies were analysed for a good planning system. The technological aspects of the theatre's roof was treated in this section (chapter six). This looks at problems, design, economy and limitations of tensile technology. Chapter seven presented the existing structures utilizing cable technology, this has helped in understanding the caution to be taken in designing one. The need to understand the local conditions of the site is necessary so that design would have to respect these local conditions. Chapter eight has tried to show how the site local vii conditions were; these are, winds, temperature, humidity, sunshine hours, rainfall etc. The last chapter is a treatment of various design approaches in architecture as applied to the thesis. This has gone to conceptual planning level, concepts evolution and site planning scheme | en_US |
| dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/123456789/3312 | |
| dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
| dc.subject | MULTI-PURPOSE, | en_US |
| dc.subject | AUDITORIUM, | en_US |
| dc.subject | COMPLEX, | en_US |
| dc.subject | AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, | en_US |
| dc.subject | ZARIA, | en_US |
| dc.subject | Investigation, | en_US |
| dc.subject | Use, | en_US |
| dc.subject | Aesthetics, | en_US |
| dc.subject | Cable Structures | en_US |
| dc.title | A MULTI-PURPOSE AUDITORIUM COMPLEX FOR AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA (An Architectural Investigation into the Use and Aesthetics of Cable Structures) | en_US |
| dc.type | Thesis | en_US |
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