STUDENTS VILLAGE KADUNA STATE POLYTECHNIC, ZARIA AN APPROACH TO COMMUNAL LIVING IN HOSTEL DESIGN
STUDENTS VILLAGE KADUNA STATE POLYTECHNIC, ZARIA AN APPROACH TO COMMUNAL LIVING IN HOSTEL DESIGN
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1995-09
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ABDULLAHI, IBRAHIM
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STUDENT'S VILLAGE: - Is the thesis proposal for accommodating
the students in a communal village setting.
The student’s accommodation will be such that the students are
grouped in small dynamic communities within a village that is
administered by the students themselves under the supervision of
warders and lectures.
From the architectural point of view, this means a clear
separation of the following activities whose combining effect would
revolve round the village, and provide the pre-requisite auxiliary
services such as administration, study-bed-room, cafeteria as well as
Kitchenette as the case may be, communal facilities for leisures (
areas for combined recreational activities), everyday activities
(common room) and general areas for meetings.
The aims and objectives of the design proposal are:-
(i) To show that supply shortfall in not the only problem in
students housing. Students have needs for a communal
life, leisure activities intellectual interaction and a system
of general and individual welfare.
(ii) To find a totally new alternative solution to students
accommodations problems at a lime when both the
federal and stale government have withdrawn from total
sponsorship of such programmes.
(iii) To satisfy user needs and requirements in hostel design.
(iv) To provide a new type o f accommodation different from
what exists in most of the polytechnic and others high
institutions in Nigeria, the hall- system which basically
consists of rooms with one or more occupants in a room
and a gang of toilet facilities in a central place. A few
have common rooms and for the whole institution or
group of halls share a dining hall.
The government polling on students’ accommodation has
changed over the years. At present the government is no longer
investigating on students’ accommodation. It is assumed that the
problem can only be solved by the provision of adequate funds by the
organisation involved. An experienced is that the student
accommodation in Nigerian polytechnic and others tertiary
institutions of high is far from being adequately sufficient. The
student housing problems usually been identified as insufficient
residential accommodation. From 1990's as expected the rate of
growth is becoming higher because of the product of the universal
primary education (U.P.E.) who have finished their secondary
education and are ready for higher level education.
The spill over from the existence accommodation can not be
catered for by the private houses in the vicinity of the institutions.
There is already a sizeable number of students "squatting" with
those that have authorised bed spaces with the result that facilities in
the hostels especially sanitary ones are over used. Coupled with over
crowding some students especially female ones cooks in the hostel
rooms because facilities provided in the dining halls are not
adequate. Hence an alternative housing solution is such needed.
The tools used for collecting information were the
questionnaires, literatures on student housing by architects and
sociologists, polytechnic and other higher institutions administrators,
Seminars papers architect journals, furniture specialist and finally
visual survey on students residence were also adopted. For the
purpose of defining the scope the area of concentration is the ROOM
UNITS on the microscopic and the HOSTEL (VILLAGE) on the
macroscopic scale.
In the final analysis it is hoped that such a VILLAGE would
accommodate and attract short term- Courses and conferences
during vacation and would therefore be beneficial to the developers
as well as the students.
Description
A THESIS SUBMITTED TO THE POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL AHMADU
BELLO UNIVERSITY ZAR1A IN PARTIAL FULFILLMENT OF THE
REQUIREMENTS FOR THE DEGREE OF MASTER OF SCIENCE
IN ARCHITECTURE
FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN DEPARTMENT OF
ARCHITECTURE AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY ZAR1A
NIGERIA.
Keywords
STUDENTS,, VILLAGE,, KADUNA STATE,, POLYTECHNIC,, ZARIA,, APPROACH,, COMMUNAL,, LIVING,, HOSTEL DESIGN