ABENG, FAVOUR JOEL and Covenant University, Theses (2021) ASSESSMENT OF ARCHITECTURAL PROMENADE IN ARTS AND CULTURAL CENTRES, CALABAR, NIGERIA. Masters thesis, COVENANT UNIVERSITY.
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Art and cultural centres play a significant role in showing the people's way of life around that community, impacting tourist attraction in cities and regions. This is why user experience is essential in the design of cultural centres. To improve the overall user experience in spaces, the concept of architectural promenade made famous by Le Corbusier has become a part of modern architectural design as every building has an architectural promenade whether designed consciously or not. Despite this, little is known about it or how it affects the user experience, particularly in Art and cultural centres. This research aims to assess the architectural promenade in selected art and cultural centres in a bid to improve the overall user experience in the design of an enhanced cultural centre in Calabar Cross River, Nigeria. The scope of this study is limited to cultural centres and related buildings in specific tourist states. The study employed a mixed-use methodological approach. Four Facilities were purposively selected in Calabar and Lagos state to obtain data. A quantitative and qualitative methodology was used to obtain data. The Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS) software was employed to analyse the acquired quantitative data. Results were arranged in themes and presented using a descriptive approach with the aid of tables and photographs. The findings indicated that the Arts and cultural centres don't explore the full potential of the architectural promenade as the users did not necessarily enjoy the architectural promenade in cultural centres, therefore, affecting their overall experience of spaces. The study recommended architectural promenade as an area of user experience that researchers could focus on in research and architects could use as a conscious consideration in the design of art and cultural centres.
| Item Type: | Thesis (Masters) |
|---|---|
| Uncontrolled Keywords: | Architectural Promenade, User Experience, Art, Cultural Centre |
| Subjects: | N Fine Arts > NA Architecture |
| Divisions: | Faculty of Engineering, Science and Mathematics > School of Engineering Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Mrs Hannah Akinwumi |
| Date Deposited: | 08 Feb 2022 16:47 |
| Last Modified: | 08 Feb 2022 16:47 |
| URI: | http://eprints.covenantuniversity.edu.ng/id/eprint/15611 |
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