Discovering design implications of public housing adjustment benefits in Nigeria

Document Type

Conference Proceeding

Publication Title

Interdisciplinary Behavior and Social Sciences - Proceedings of the 3rd International Congress on Interdisciplinary Behavior and Social Sciences, ICIBSoS 2014

Abstract

Heterogeneous spatial paradigm in public housing design is essentially inevitable and most avidly followed urban issue in Nigeria today. In contrast to the one time homogenous configuration provided which has proved ineffective overtime, layout patterns and benefits of transformation are less focused on. Equally, design solutions emerging from transformation benefits have limited empirical footing. In this circumstance, houses of urban public housing typology were studied after transformation. The study adopted conditional sampling of 42 public housings in five states of northern Nigeria. Social pattern analysis was used to assess the social pattern of the transformed spatial configurations, subjected to gamma analysis in establishing the spatial pattern of adjustments. The resultant graphical delineation indicated that the spatial system developed of out of the social meaning imposed upon it by the social activities of the occupants. Thus, design implication requires developers to consider future transformation initiatives of occupants at the design stage.

First Page

361

Last Page

365

DOI

10.1201/b18146-64

Publication Date

1-1-2015

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