FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN AND MANAGEMENT
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Item Design toolkits for campus open spaces from post-occupancy evaluations of federal universities in South-west Nigeria(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2018) Adedeji, J. A.; Fadamiro, J. A.; Odeyale, T. O.Purpose - Participatory design strategy through post-occupancy evaluation of built assets is a feedback mechanism into the design process. This paper draws upon a wider empirical study that aims at evaluating the University Campus Open Spaces (UCOS) of six federal universities in South-west Nigeria. The purpose of this paper is to generate evidence-based design toolkits for UCOS towards spanning of disconnects between designers and users thereby revisiting and revitalizing their design criteria. Design/methodology/approach - A sample (n = 3,016) of users was drawn in a cross-sectional survey through stratified random method. The research instrument was a structured questionnaire in multiple choice and Likert-type scales. The data obtained were subjected to statistical techniques. Findings - Results show that males use the UCOS for active and passive recreation than females. The UCOS are male dominated because the females have higher concerns for lack of safety and inclement weather. Both genders have equal preference for sitting. “Group academic” activities are at peak in the “afternoon”, while “being alone” takes place in the “evening” and “personal academic” in the “morning”. Safety is primary to zoological and botanical gardens. Social interaction spaces enhance successful recreation parks. Coherence and legibility are the highest cognitive satisfaction factors for pedestrian sidewalks. Practical im plications - The research generated design requirements for UCOS, and it is important for informing better design solutions in the future. Originality/value - The results are synthesized into three-in-two new frameworks to guide future design actions for innovative strategies between design and use/operational phasesItem Evidence-Based Design of University Zoological Gardens: A Perception Study in South-west Nigeria(2018) Adedeji, J. A.; Fadamiro, J. A.; Odeyale, T. O.Evidence-based design (EBD) has become an acceptable paradigm in environmentbehaviour endeavours in recent years with documented benefits especially in healthcare facilities. However, little is known of its application to University Campus Open Spaces (UCOS) like University Zoological Gardens (UZGs) which accounts for the repetition of design mistakes. This study aims to assess the UZGs as a major component of UCOS in South-west Nigeria with a view to formulating EBD frameworks. It adopts a comparative post-occupancy evaluation (POE) approach through a Stratified Random Sampling protocol of users (n=3,016) of the gardens in Federal Universities in South-west Nigeria. Results of the quantitative data analyses suggest that while walk-ability is a primary satisfaction factor among thirty design considerations in the formulated model, legibility is the most primary cognitive factor for designing perceptible high quality UZGs. The study argues in favour of the developed framework as design tool-kit and recommends its application as a feedback input into the design process of UZGsItem Exploring New Directions for the Transformation of the Built Environment in Nigeria: The Role of Building Information Modeling(IISTE, 2016) Odeyale, T. O.; Olalekan, K.; Fagbemi, K.; Abraham, S.Building Information Modelling (BIM) offers an alternative and better method of handling information for integrated project delivery approach to that of the traditional fragmented method of collaboration in the built environment. This paper is aimed at assessing the awareness and the prospects of adopting BIM in the professional Architectural practices in Nigeria using Akure as a case study. The rate of urbanisation and transformation of the built environment in the face of globalisation, calls for a new direction in the processing and handling of building information. This is particularly necessary as the current business model is inadequate for maximum productivity. The field investigation focused on determining the current business model of selected Architectural practice as well as assessing their awareness of Building Information Modelling and whether or not professionals are going to adopt it soon. The findings showed that the method of collaboration among professionals remain fragmented, the use of 3D software and even BIM software is limited to just 3D visualization and plan details. The study revealed that despite a good number of respondents already conscious of the benefit of using a BIM tool; their overall approach to project delivery remains fragmented. Awareness of the concept of BIM was a little above average among respondents but BIM implementation in professional practice is very low. It was discovered that challenges faced by respondents in the adoption of BIM is predicated on the attitudinal disposition of other professionals with whom they work and exchange building information with. These professionals do not work with BIM and coupled with inadequate knowledge of staff in the adoption of BIM workflow. The paper concluded that Building Information Modelling (BIM) has greater advantage than the existing traditional practice involving 2D drafting. BIM also has the inherent ability to foster integrated project delivery by creating a common platform for all professionals to work simultaneously on a project thereby minimising costly design and construction errorsItem Threat to sustainable environments: reappraisal of cases and causes of building failures in nigeria(Cambridge Publications and Research International, 2015) Olalekan, K.; Odeyale, T. O.; Fagbemi, K.It is a common sight recently in the developing countries especially in Nigeria to find buildings collapsing in cities and towns. Such buildings cut across several use and function (private, corporate, religious and public), exposing innocent lives to harm and unwarranted death. This paper considers the various reasons, causes and factors at the root of this menace affecting building and sustainable environment. Some of the causes were traced back to the planning and conceptual design stages before the actual construction of the building takes place. The paper argues that the problem of building collapse and disaster is not due to lack of knowledge of its causes but in ensuring that such probable factors were programmed not to happen. This with involve putting in place, appropriate precautions from the design stage to ensure the durability, sustainability and functionality of the building through careful construction process and good maintenance.Item Social and cultural construction of healthy city in subsaharan africa: a case study of urban conflicts and modernisation agenda in ondo state, Nigeria(Cambridge Publications and Research International, 2015) Odeyale, T. O; Olalekan, K.This paper examines the processes of transformation of the architecture and spatial character of a Nigerian city, in the achievement of a healthy and sustainable built environment. Objectives: It investigates the conflicts, tensions and negotiations that take place between those city dwellers embedded in the context of traditions and those pursuing a modernization agenda at a time when new infrastructures (hospitals, food markets and Automobile Markets) are being introduced in Akure. The study demonstrates that in order to understand how the built marketplace is made, unmade and reassembled, it is necessary to know how the worldviews of market users, sellers and policymakers are both culturally and socially constructed. Method Used: Interpretive anthropology and Actor Network Theory are used to explore the unwritten ritual practices, persistent traditional values, conflicts and socio-cultural transformations that underlie the physical built environment in which the health and social facilities are located. Findings: The research shows that the character of the built environment and social infrastructures within the city is not simply an outcome of national decision making, but is driven by the cultural preferences and diverging social interests of ‘actants ’ as they negotiate the process of change between tradition and modernity and make choices.Item Millennium development goals: impact of sustainability discourses, conflict and inter-governmental actions on the built environment(Cambridge Research and Publications International, 2015) Odeyale, T. O; Olalekan, K.As part of the Millennium Cities initiative, organized by Earth Institute of Columbia University USA, Akure, Nigeria was selected as one of the cities in Sub-Saharan Africa to be assisted in achieving the millennium development goals (MDGs). Other cities selected in Sub-Saharan Africa include Kisumu. (Kenya); Blantvre. (Malawi); Kumasi, (Ghana); Bamako. (Mali); Sezou, (Mali); Kaduna, (Nigeria) and Mekelle. (Ethiopia). It is necessary to point out that this initiative focuses more on inter-governmental actions than tackling the source of the developmental problem of the cities involved in the initiative. Using a mixed methodological approach, which included participant observation and structured interviews by means of convenience and snowball sampling methods administered in the study area. According to the aim of the project it is to promote investment from overseas (capitalist) companies, create employment and help in the domestic affairs of the cities involved. This paper examine the impact of the MDGs on the built environment and critique these ‘lofty ideas' which has failed to address the local, regional and cultural specificity of the location; and which has not been productive in Sub-Saharan Africa. The paper concludes that the desire for an integrated city cannot beItem Architects’ role in the shaping of innovative adaptable buildings in a sustainable built environment(Cambridge Research and Publications International, 2015) Olalekan, K.; Odeyale, T. O.The drive of every sociological study is to explore the changes that are taking place in society and what direction these transformations will take in the future. It must be noted that construction and technological issues demands a sociological explanation, hence the thrust of the study. The research is aimed at opening up new perspectives on the behaviour of architects and the workings of its social institutions. To discover general social pattern that emerges from individual or group actions and interactions of designers; which underpins new technological adoption. The research methods employed include examination of practised based case studies and interview in the adoption of innovative adaptable technologies in shaping a sustainable future for the built environment. Review of literatures carried out affirm the necessity for further investigations into the underlying socio-cultural dimensions at play in the formation of sustainable built environment in Sub Saharan Africa which include the prevailing local cultures. The paper conclude that adequate decision support mechanism and information is imperative to aid architects, designers, built environment practitioners and policy makers alike.Item Marketing the Tourism Potentials of Owo Community for the Development of Ondo State, Nigeria(2012) Olugbamila, O. B.; Omole, F. K.; Omosulu, S. B.; Soyinka, O. A.; Odeyale, T. O.; Olufayo, O.; Akinrinmade, O.The aim of this study is to identify the tourism potentials in Owo Community and their contribution to the socioeconomic development of the people. The study made use of purposive sampling method. Systematic random sampling was used to administer questionnaires at interval of 10lh respondents targeted at house hold heads. The results show that the level of patronage of tourism potentials in Owo is relatively high as revealed by the data collected. The impacts of tourism potentials in the study area included boosting of income, employment and business. The study concludes that tourism potentials in Owo community has high patronage and has positive impact on people’s socio-economic lives, but there are many challenges facing the sector in the study area. Some of which are lack of accommodation, lack of awareness, inadequate water supply, lack of support by both Local and State governments for both Igogo and Ero festivals. The study recommends proper funding of Owo Museum by the federal government as well as appropriate packaging and marketing of Igogo and Ero festivals to meet international standards among other recommendations.Item Urban Space and Contingent Meanings of the Built Environment in Nigeria(2019) Odeyale, T. O; Ige, O, D.The re-interpretation of the spatial character of the city is continuously re-making the appearance of the urban centres in the contemporary milieu. This paper argues that urban transformations are born out of conflicts resulting in spatial urban boundaries becoming blurred and creations of vulnerable urban spaces. Such spaces are continuously being renegotiated through the activities and reactions in the built environment due to the actions o f different stakeholders and powerful actants. Using methodological approaches that include interviews, participant observation, and topographical analysis, it further examines the conflict or tension as change takes place during inner city development. By identifying various negotiations amongst the urban users with different interests and choices and ways they have appropriated urban space in recent times in Southwest Nigeria Findings revealed that powerful actants have problematized, mobilized and deployed resources in order to achieve their vision ofwhat form the built environment should take, and not necessarily what is sustainable. The paper concludes by underscoring the preservation of the essential parts o f the urban character and cultural life of the cityItem Revisiting curriculum design in architectural education in Nigeria: the information technology factor.(2012) Olotuah, O. A.; Adedeji, D. M. Y; Odeyale, T. O.Architectural education has had a chequered history of half a Century in Nigeria. The British bequeathed the curriculum of architectural training, as indeed the entire Nigerian educational system. The architecture programmers in Nigerian Schools of architecture, though fashioned after the British and/or American model, are tailored to meet the nation’s socio-economic needs and cultural values within the general context of the Nigerian Nations; Policy on Education. The adequacy of the curriculum in responding to the. changing technological and socio-economic situation of She country and global trends has suggested continual appraisal in recent times. The advances in technology, especially information technology, have mads a re-direction in architectural education in Nigeria imperative. This paper critically appraises this development as the use of the computer has made tremendous inroads into architectural practice in the country. JS reports findings on the authors’ research on the influence of Computer-Aided’ Design (CAD) on architectural practice in Nigeria, shelving that only 30% of practicing architects began So us® -CAD software during their course of architecture!-study. It asserts that the absence of,- or inadequate CAD training in schools of Architecture in Nigeria, has significantly affected the. performance off architects in practice. The paper proffers recommendations on curriculum ' re-design to meet the challenges of information technology, in Nigeria.