AN APPROACH TO COMMUNAL LIVING IN HOSTEL DESIGN

(A CASE STUDY OF STUDENTS VILLAGE KADUNA STATE POLYTECHNIC, ZARIA )

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Department of Environmental Design

ABSTRACT
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new alternative solution to students accommodations problems at a lime when both the federal and stale government have withdrawn from total sponsorship of such programmes.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