CIVIC CENTRE (SPACE FORMS AND CIRCULATION IN PUBLIC BUILDING)

Abstract

Without links or relationship with others man will go into extinction human activities are related with one form of interaction or the other and arc expressed in the course of daily life as social interaction, recreation, business pr any other activity.

The Civic Centre has been a vehicle of social mobilization and development in human history. It has always been a place where people are on the direction of social evolution. This work is an attempt at the provision or a Civic Centre, an architectural environment that will enable the unification of diverse desires or the people or Ahiazu -- Mbaisc and beyond. Like all human abstraction - music, poetry and arts arc means of communicating ideas and feelings to one another. Unlike arts, architecture is more than communicating feelings, rather, functional requirements ol environment of existence. The architectural, importance or a bui lding docs not depend on its features or aesthetics but on the functionality and satisfaction of the user requirements.

The success and strength or any human society lies in its ability to optimize and articulate its human resource potentials for the accomplishment u" set goals, which can only be possible if the people are 'mkcd with (Ill " environment that depict oneness; identifying friendship in :a district or community for a recreation and cultural dissemination. Articulating an environment with conducive spaces and attractive forms that is an identity for a people becomes a means of rejuvenating their capacity to develop. Hence, the design of a Civic Centre; an architectural edi flee that can articulate the site potentials with good architectural forms to evolve a unique architectural environment capable of evoking and inspiri:16 the people to mobilize themselves towards social, economic, cultural and technological development becomes desirable. In the course of this study, the research methodology adopted consists or library search, case studies, data on various areas related to study and user requirements analysis, thus culminating in the design proposal. The study emphasis identified orderliness and harmony in the use or space, forms and circulation in achieving a dynamic public environment that can enhance the educational, social, economic, technological, and cultural development ol the people through the Civic Centre.