FARIN RUWA HOTEL LAFIA (NASSARAWA STATE) (A SOCIO-CULTURAL CRITERIA IN HOTEL DESIGN)
FARIN RUWA HOTEL LAFIA (NASSARAWA STATE) (A SOCIO-CULTURAL CRITERIA IN HOTEL DESIGN)
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1999-11
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CHARLES, MAKUN YAKUBU
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All over tropical Africa, sweeping changes over the last Century have innevitably
disturbed traditional life and form. The changing economic, political and social condition
have altered peoples basic architectural requirements. This brings us to asking one
question. Should one's Culture be thrown apart in the ongoing plethora of modernism
or Should it save how adapt itself to the 20th century way of life in respect to the field
of architecture?
"Culture" or "civilisation" taken in it's wide ethnographic sense, is that complex
whole which includes knowledge, belief, art, morals, law custom, and any capabilities
and habits acquired by man as a member of a society B. Taylor (1958).
The hotel is an establishment with the primary aim of providing accommodation,
with the provision of food and drinks as supporting facilities, first introduced into the
country by the colonial masters, during their civilising mission to Africa.
Investigation however shows that:
(i) The hotel which was a product of the western civilising mission and the
development of the beer parlours and brothels often referred to as "hotel", has
altered some peoples perception about what takes place in a hotel. This has lead
to some of the populace viewing the hotel as contrary to their "culture or
civilisation" because of the influence of the early forms of civilisation in the
northern part of the country,
(ii) There are certain ways in which some facilities are planned or positioned in some
hotels which does not go down with the social values of some of the populace in
vii Northern Nigeria,
(iii) There are certain other factors which are the resultant effect of the early form of
civilisation which form hinderances to hotel patronage in northern nigeria.
Therefore, the thesis seeks to identify those aspect of the culture which form
hinderances to hotel patronage with respect to northern nigeria. The thesis also seeks to
identify those aspect of the culture which may be translated into design to adapt the
culture to the 20th century way of life in respect to the hotel industry in order to reduce
social conflicts, there by boosting patronage.
The thesis demonstrated through empirical evidences that because of "culture" or
"civilisation" by the definition of B. Taylor (1958), that some spaces or functions in
todays hotel often result's into conflicts because the social values of some of the
populace. The thesis went further to evolve a design proposal based on the empirical
evidences available which may reduce the menance of social conflict in the hotel industry
following the principles of hotel design, with respect to northern nigeria as described in
the thesis scope and methodology.
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FARIN RUWA HOTEL, LAFIA (NASSARAWA STATE)