KADUNA INTERNATIONAL TRADE FAIR COMPLEX
KADUNA INTERNATIONAL TRADE FAIR COMPLEX
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Date
2014-02-11
Authors
YAKUBU, ANWAR ABDULBAQI
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Abstract
The Kaduna trade fair is an annual trade
show that last for about a week and is organized
by the Kaduna Chamber of comerce with assistance
from both the Kaduna State and Federal Governments.
It was started in 1974 as a local fair and
attained International proportions in 1979. The
fair has a good attendance and sales record and
in recent times it has attained the level of
a festival that draws regional spectators on
the social scale.
Like most events of its kind it was concieved
as a means of providing forum for businessmen and
exchange of ideas, open market for new products,
attract foreign and local investment, expose new
inventions and educate the public at large. Even
though it is one of the two trade fairs sanctioned
by the Federal Government as international (the
other being that of Lagos), it has no permanent
site but holds on a piece of land at the Murtala
square Kaduna by the grace of the National sports
Commission. This is the biggest impediment of the
fair.
The goal of this work therefore is that of
providing a fitting exhibition centre for the
fair that will go well with its activities by
providing properly planned facilities that
will reflect the exhibits, climatic condition
and its socio-cultural status as a festival.
Since the period of main usage is there abouts
of a week, the centre will be adoptable to other
uses, So that it doesn't become a ghost town when
no exhibition is taking place. The study also
intends to make policy and organizational suggestion
to improve the fair generally.
To achieve the stated goals the research will
be geared in this directions:
i) Evolution of trade fair and trade fair
designs,
ii) The socio-cultural value of the fair as
regards its present form and any bearing
it may have on its antecedant (the Local
market days is rural areas weekly and
by-weekly which are mini-trade fairs in
their own rights.)
iii) Possible derivation of forms that will
enhance its image on the social scale
without divorcing its function as mainly
that of exhibition,
iv) Ways in which climatic factors will
best be taken care of.
Description
THIS IS A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE
DEPARTMENT" OF ARCHITECTURE
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA
BY:
ABDULBAQI, ANWAR YAKUBU
IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE
CONDITIONS FOR THE AWARD OF
DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE IN
ARCHITECTURE
Keywords
KADUNA, INTERNATIONAL, TRADE, FAIR, COMPLEX