Proposed Academic Hub for the Federal College of Education Iwo Osun State, Nigeria. (Architectural Design considerations for College Library)
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2022-12
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Lead City University
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Essentially, a library is a public structure with amenities and services tailored to the various educational and social needs of a specific neighbourhood. Therefore, by definition, a public building is one that must provide access to everyone, regardless of anthropometric restrictions and age. As a result, creating for the majority also means designing for individuals in various categories. Thus, the aim of this project is to design a library that is accessible and comfortable to all users. Information for this study was garnered through the process of qualitative research and case studies. Therefore the methodology through which this study was carried out is based on primary and
secondary sources of information. The primary is basically field investigation which includes oral interviews and observation of physical traces while the secondary has to do with search through encyclopedias, web sites, books and journals that are relevant to the study. Findings from case studies reveal that users atimes battles with accessibility and comfortability thereby find it difficult to freely use many college buildings in Nigeria. Therefore, this thesis is efficient to have an in- depth assessment of the design considerations for the accessibility and comfortability of users in the library buildings. Insight on design considerations to alleviate this accessibility and comfortability of the users will be recommended and this should be considered at the early stage of the design. In order to clarify the design process, this thesis discusses the relationship between libraries, accessibility, and comfortability. More crucially, it is founded on the variables that value the applicability of both accessibility and comfortability for the library's future demands. This is an advantage of space functionality, identification, recognition, accessibility, relationship and adaptability nature of the same proposed space to staff, student, researchers, professional and society at large. This forms a cordial idea or link between the library users, everyday life activities
and traditional operation in the library arena.
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Architectural Design considerations for College Library
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Kate Turabian