SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE, UNIVERSITY OF ILORIN (Achieving Cohesive Form through Spatial and Functional Integration in Academic Building Design)

Abstract

Education is the major bedrock on which the blocks of development in any part of the world are built. Architecture structure spaces in which we live and through which we relate to each other just as society can be re-organized spatially, so space can be re-socialized. Architecture is therefore, a powerful means of directing and redirecting our attention, feelings, and thoughts to certain points through the organization of spatial structures in large complexes like school building and shopping centres are of course an excellent example of this organization. This study seeks to explore the architectural space and the focuses on the “ study of Achieving Cohesive Form through Spatial and Functional Integration in Academic Building Design”. It reveals series of spatial configuration and planning systems such as the linear, centralized, radial, grid and clustered pattern with their various navigable circulation system which are workable to decode a functional layout of spaces in large complexes. The school of architecture, University of Ilorin was chosen as a case for possible evaluation and implementation of research findings. Case studies were carried out on existing schools of architecture and school of environmental studies as the case may be, with a view to understanding the building type and various spatial requirements. Findings from the case studies include recent trends in schools of architecture and design elements and techniques which facilitate space-function resolution and genera