A REHABILITATION CENTRE FOR THE DESTITUTES
A REHABILITATION CENTRE FOR THE DESTITUTES
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Date
1962-06
Authors
FADIYA, Olusola
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Abstract
My belief is that Architecture has something to
offer not only the same but also the insame. There can
be no operational definition of uhat consitute insanity
nor can a demacation line be define between mental normality
or healthiness on one hand and mental abnormality
or illness on the other hand
What do I mean by rehabilitation and who are the
destitutes?
Rehabilitation is an accessibility for disabled
people to the public. It is a means to enable people
who would otherwise be excluded to opt in and to participate
on the same basis as able bodied colleagues, in
the action of human living. The purpose of living is
to make the most of being alive.
The beatitudes are those for-saken. They are in
utter uarits; entirely lacking, and deprived of basic
needs for human living.
To consider the destitudes as a whole (who could
be due to blindness, deafness, phisical dis-orders of
limbs - cripple, epilepsy and mental sickness) will be
a very wide scope, which will be difficult to complete
within this thesis. Thus the thesis is limited to the
cured mentally ill people, who after being discharged
from the psychiatric hospital, have lost place of work
or distrint memory of trade, thus cannot fend for themselves.
Hence the need for a transition from hospital
life to community life.
Rehabilitation centre for the destitudes has a
combination of practical and theoretical remedies in
its treatment. It is an instance of social concern
reflected in Architectural Planning. The project therefare
has a characteristic Architecture that merits special
consideration because of their theoretical relevance and
intellectual distinction.
The centre will be more concerned with the behavoural
aspect of the inmates than the medical aspect.
The profoundly disability are taken care of by the psychiatric
hospital. However, provision of small unit
will be made in conjunction will the centre to cater
for emergency relapse of inmates mental illness.
The project should therefore be adaptable to all
manner of purposes - prisons, hospitals, schools nnd places
of worship (Church or Mosque). It should at last turn
out to a village of co-operation, industrial, agricultural
and educational activities potentially combined.
Description
A THESIS
PRESENTED TO THE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY
ZARIA
NIGERIA
IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR
THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE
Keywords
REHABILITATION,, CENTRE,, DESTITUTES,