MULTI-PURPOSE CENTRE, MAKURDI Appraisal of Tropical Building Materials
MULTI-PURPOSE CENTRE, MAKURDI Appraisal of Tropical Building Materials
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1992-11
Authors
OGWUCHE, IGBAH PATRICK
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ABSTRACT
A community, according to Oxford dictionary definition,
is physically incomplete without a centre. It is a centre
(a communal focal point) like the courtyard concept of a typical
African setting, that makes a community a community and not merely
an aggregate of individuals. It is like an open air lobby with
a centripetal force that pulls different people together
informally, achieving unity and so on from the diverse languages,
customs and traditions within that settlement.
The centre represents actually a psychological parking place
within the civic landscape. If one visualises the streets as
rivers, channeling the stream from human communication which
means much more than mere technical "traffic" - then the centre
represents a natural or artificial lake. The centre dictates the
flux of life not only within its own confines but also through the
adjacent streets for which it forms a quasi-estuary.
The Makurdi sub-region like any other town, has its own
places of works, seat of government, residences and place of
assembly. The multipurpose centre is an attempt to provide a
distinct central place of assemblies to serve as prestige for such
a big town. A flexible complex that will accommodate various
functions within the limit of various assemblies in Makurdi. It
shall not only serve as a revenue generating complete for self
maintenance but shall also seek to improve and encourage the study
of theatre arts, provide entertainment and interraction among
various professionals, transforming the existing site into an
architectural entity.
(vi)
The focus of this thesis is to appraise tropical building
materials and to see how best they could be used to reduce cost
and comfort in building.
The envisaged limitation is that any sociological and
scientific research application like this can only be adjudged
successful or otherwise with passage of time.
(vii)
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A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POST GRADUATE SCHOOL
AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA
IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENTS FOR THE
AWARD OF MASTER OF SCIENCE DEGREE IN ARCHITECTURE
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
Keywords
MULTI-PURPOSE, CENTRE,, MAKURDI, Appraisal, Tropical, Building Materials