NIGER DELTA COMPLEX, ARCHITECTURAL RESP0NSE TO CHANGING SOCIO-CULTURAL DEMANDS
NIGER DELTA COMPLEX, ARCHITECTURAL RESP0NSE TO CHANGING SOCIO-CULTURAL DEMANDS
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2004-07
Authors
INNOCENT, OBINDU EMENIKE
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Abstract
The Niger Delta is amongst least well served in the Country. Successive
governments have exploited the natural wealth of the Delta but put very little
back in terms of infrastructure and service. Over recent years, the natural
environment has been seriously damaged by mineral extraction and
deforestation the latter due in large measure to oil companies opening up virgin
land for resource extraction and steady incursion of people seeking land for
cropping. Other threats of people’s livelihood including oil spillage and damage
to waterways and riverbanks through dredging and canalisation that indirectly
affect fishing in the region. This situation have created the persistent violent in
the region.
Niger Delta Development Commission has been commission to carter for
development of the region. The existing office building was design without
consideration the socio–culture of the people in the region.
This thesis attempted to create a design in response to the challenge of
Niger Delta Development Commission (NDDC) base on changing socio–cultural
demand.
In the quest to resolve changing socio–cultural demands and development of the
people, this thesis is thus to provide an ideal Architectural solution a centre for
Administration and Research to NDDC. The Research will be concern with
environmental and ecological research problems and also train people that will in
turn train the community’s youth and reorient them. The commission thus,
becomes an idea of how Architecture could help promote unity, identity and
sustainable development in Niger Delta.
This design thesis has been executed in two major parts VIZ:
i. The thesis reports
ii. The architectural design proposalThe documentation research or thesis report enables the author analyse,
synthesize proposal of the architectural design
Description
A thesis submitted to the postgraduate school, Ahmadu Bello University, Zaria,
Nigeria in partial fulfilment of the requirements for the award of the degree of
Masters of Science in Architecture (M.Sc. Architecture)
Department of Architecture
Faculty of Environmental Design
Ahmadu Bello University
Zaria – Nigeria
July 2004
Keywords
NIGER,, DELTA,, COMPLEX,, RESP0NSE,, CHANGING,, SOCIO-CULTURAL,, DEMANDS