MULTI-PURPOSE CENTRE, MAKURDI Appraisal of Tropical Building Materials

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dc.contributor.authorOGWUCHE, IGBAH PATRICK
dc.date.accessioned2014-02-11T09:31:29Z
dc.date.available2014-02-11T09:31:29Z
dc.date.issued1992-11
dc.descriptionA 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 ARCHITECTUREen_US
dc.description.abstractABSTRACT 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)en_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/123456789/1057
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.subjectMULTI-PURPOSEen_US
dc.subjectCENTRE,en_US
dc.subjectMAKURDIen_US
dc.subjectAppraisalen_US
dc.subjectTropicalen_US
dc.subjectBuilding Materialsen_US
dc.titleMULTI-PURPOSE CENTRE, MAKURDI Appraisal of Tropical Building Materialsen_US
dc.typeThesisen_US
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