Abstract:
The government has an important obligation to ensure that the public buildings and facilities should be well managed to maintain building sustainability.This study investigates the terrain of Ondo State political class and how architecture can be used as a fix for crime and related activities in public housing.
A proposed legislative quarters inAlagbaka Housing Estate will be used as a model to tackle the issue of crime through the architectural means possible. This thesis is intended to create consciousness among designers of the urban environment of their social role. As social bonds among residents increase, and bonds with the place begin building a sense of territoriality in the community, the residents become active defenders of the place against crime. It is however expedient as Architects to build supportive environments that encourage the people in it to be physically active.The entailing objectives is to review and analyze the government and public building performance and their self defence against crime and to also determine the correlation between building performance and occupants’ satisfaction level. The study has revealed that 74% of the aspects of building performance are in high correlation with the occupants’ satisfaction.
Keywords: Housing, Public housing, Crime, Perception, Safety
