PROPOSED ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN ON SPORT CENTER AT KANO STATE POLYTECHNIC, SCHOOL OF ENVIRONMENTAL STUDIES GWARZO
Abstract
Sports, Recreation or free time activities are now widely accepted as fundamental elements of good quality
life, they are essential to the mental and physical wellbeing of humans and in general of any present-day society.
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In recent years’ institutions have come the realization that their academic prestige alone is not enough to attract
the world top student athletics and overall academic participant. In an era, when students are more mobile than
ever, institution officials have gone on a major building booms that has seen designer dorm, stunning libraries
and amazing student’s sports centers. Therefore, students sport center is a building within the school campus
designed and dedicated to meet the need of students of different age and gender by participating in the different
leisure activities including intramural sport, group fitness, classes etc., and is accessible to all current student,
faculty, staff and retirees. The research of this project is basically classified into primary data collection which
involve site visiting conducting case studies from existing buildings of similar function, and secondary data
collection that involves printed and non-printed material of related topics.
The project is further sub-divided into three main unit’s admin, sport area, and service., with aim of designing
an excellent sport opportunity that promote a healthy and active lifestyle of kano state polytechnic school of
environmental studies gwarzo. By considering it is main derived objectives in providing leisure, meeting and
sporting facilities for social wellbeing of the student, and assist building bridges between all members of kano
state polytechnic schools of environmental studies gwarzo. The main reason why I selected this project as the
polytechnic is having problems, or inadequate facilities of support activities, and intend to improve by
designing of a student sport center which contain most facilities of recreation for the student. The provision of
this sports facilities will definitely improve the quality life of students and also tend to create an environment
with an architectural element which at the same time confirms to cultural and traditional pride.
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