relation: http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/3145/
title: Green Agenda: A Socio-Cultural Response to SBS and BRI in African Domestic Architecture
creator: Ekhaese, E. N.
creator: Adeboye, A. B.
subject: NA Architecture
description: Green agenda is a participatory method for developing and implementing local sustainable development strategies and plans with active involvement of different sectors in the local community where the process is conducted. But Sick Building Syndrome (SBS) and Building Related Illness (BRI) are building concerns in African cities, because building designs, materials and styles are alien the culture and climate. The focus of the paper therefore was to deploy sustainability parameters (Green Agenda) to address SBS and BRI in African Domestic Architecture. Taking into consideration the three main aspects of green agenda which includes; identifying local values, process participation and genuinely owned result. The methodology employed was quantitative and qualitative. The findings revealed that the research had addressed the issues of imported design, sick building syndrome and building related illness using sustainability considerations. The study result has shown that the three aspects of local green agenda has socio-cultural nuance in Domestic Architecture that includes the values, beliefs, available materials in the studied community. This pre-supposes that building design necessarily need to have organic content (i.e. it has to be culture specific, socially responsive and environmentally friendly). Organic designs however have proved to be sustainable and also one of the way out of SBS and BRI.
date: 2014
type: Article
type: PeerReviewed
format: application/pdf
language: en
identifier: http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/3145/1/GREEN%20AGENDA-accepted%20by%20ICSEBS%202014%20SCOPUS%20and%20ISI%20index%20conference.pdf
identifier:   Ekhaese, E. N. and Adeboye, A. B.  (2014) Green Agenda: A Socio-Cultural Response to SBS and BRI in African Domestic Architecture.  Green Agenda: A Socio-Cultural Response to SBS and BRI in African Domestic Architecture.  pp. 1-17.