PROPOSED FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE FOR NNAMDI AZIKIWE UNIVERSITY, AWKA, ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA TOWARDS ACHIEVING UNIVERSAL DESIGN IN ACADEMIC BUILDINGS

UGAH, UZODINMA KELECHI and Covenant University, Theses (2018) PROPOSED FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE FOR NNAMDI AZIKIWE UNIVERSITY, AWKA, ANAMBRA STATE, NIGERIA TOWARDS ACHIEVING UNIVERSAL DESIGN IN ACADEMIC BUILDINGS. Masters thesis, COVENANT UNIVERSITY.

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Abstract

Every human being is different, we are diverse in our sizes, abilities and as we grow older we develop certain capabilities, abilities and disabilities and thus continue to change. When we understand our diversity as human beings, the need to design our built environment to suite the need of an ideal average human being becomes a fallacy and thus creates a burden on designers to create designs that has the capacity to adapt to the various needs and capacities of the intended users. This burden as resulted in the concept called Universal Design (UD). This thesis introduces the concept of UD in details as well as proffering ways in which it can be achieved especially in an academic built environment using a proposed faculty of environmental science building for Nnamdi Azikiwe University Awka, Anambra State, Southeast of Nigeria. It outlines the significance of UD in such an environment while going further to state the influence of UD on teaching and learning. Attempt is made to list out the structures of UD in an academic built environment while looking at enabling laws and policies in building development legislations in Nigeria. The research was carried out using extract from published related materials, personal interviews, and local and foreign case studies of building structures utilized for similar activities. From the result of the research, a faculty of environmental science building was designed using the various structures of UD thus achieving UD in the proposed building.

Item Type:	Thesis (Masters)
Subjects:	N Fine Arts > NA Architecture
Divisions:	Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Engineering Sciences
Depositing User:	Mrs Hannah Akinwumi
Date Deposited:	06 Aug 2020 16:11
Last Modified:	06 Aug 2020 16:11
URI:	http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/id/eprint/13516

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