Joseph Akinlabi Fadamiro

Federal University of Technology | futa · Department of Architecture

Let the ROS breathe! Indiscriminate conversion of planned recreational open spaces in residential estates causing congestion, pollution, urban blight, among others. Leaving children with no spaces to play, while families and the elderly do not have spaces to sit and relax while enjoying nature in serene environments!

This study aims to develop an evidence-based design protocol for home gardens' details through the concept of quality between the human nature of home residents and non-human nature of garden elements based on the biophilia theory. This becomes necessary in view of the hustle-and-bustle lifestyle of urban populations that are alienated from the wel...

Urbanization attracts numerous and multifarious challenges that transverse across nations, regions, and continents. These challenges limit the potential of the cities, making them unsatisfactory and inefficient as well as plunging some towards collapse. This paper explores a review of academic outputs on different challenges of urbanization bedevil...

Urbanization attracts numerous and multifarious challenges that transverse across nations, regions, and continents. These challenges limit the potential of the cities, making them unsatisfactory and inefficient as well as plunging some towards collapse. This paper explores a review of academic outputs on different challenges of urbanization bedevil...

The exposure of the cultural landscape to tourism activities puts a lot of pressure on the common heritage of man with a possibility of the loss of the attractions to the landscape. This often happens because the necessary attention to the development of such fragile touristic sites are absent thus exposing them to stages of deterioration. This pap...

The cultural landscapes for generations are places where people identify with their roots, a place of pride or remembrance of symbolic events. With the development of these sites as tourist centres of attraction and in most developed countries they provide employment opportunities as well as being useful generators of income through tourism. Cur...

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-b...

Urban growth phenomenon in cities is hinged upon the presence of certain magnetic developments which serves as growth factors and catalysts. These include institutions of higher learning, roads, airports, industrial developments, among many others. The study examined the contribution of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) off-campus...

The metamorphic process of rapidly changing value-systems and landscapes of the traditional Yoruba city of Osogbo, Nigeria is mainly due to the trio of urbanisation, modernisation and globalisation forces. Through a qualitative analysis of the monarchical periods, the study documents the transformations that have occurred to the value-systems and r...

Evidence-based design (EBD) has become an acceptable paradigm in environment-behaviour 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 mist...

Socio-spatial territoriality manifests as residential fencing and gating and are common features of urban living environments, although the mechanism for determining the best social-mix in housing development is grossly missing. This study aims to determine the social-mix in housing that best mitigates urban insecurity as outcomes of social inequal...

Cultural landscapes are historical documents in the natural and built environment. They are memorable spaces imbued with the “spirit of place” despite the negative effects of modernization on them. The cultural landscapes of the Yoruba occupying the South-Western Nigeria can be perceived to be no less significant in this regard. In a time-series an...

Purpose – The poor outdoor quality of highly populated third-world cities is a consequence of the misuse of public open spaces as refuse dumps and for informal trading activities. This describes the situation of Lagos metropolis before the present political will that has infused great landscaping transition into the cityscape. However, the challen...

In this paper, sustainability is examined as one of the objectives of enabling man in a preserved, efficient and enduring world environment. Thus, sustainable housing and environmental development is conceptualized as a building or shelter provided through judicious, selective sourcing, processing and use of building materials to satisfy current sh...

Purpose – The recreational benefits of urban parks and gardens have been documented in the literature. However, the extent to which the mechanism behind this is reliant on demographic variables and sites' quality, among others, is not clear. Therefore, this study aims to investigate the impact of these variables on recreational experiences in Ibada...

The tripartite quality of buildings that qualify as architectural products has been traditionally held to be serviceability, stability and aesthetics. Unfortunately, the Nigerian built environment has lost the stability component of this trio with attendant socio-economic, political and cultural negative outcomes. This is obvious from the reported...

The interwoven relationship between the use of indoors and outdoors in the tropics as means of thermal adaptation has long been recognized. In the case of outdoors, this is achieved by green intervention of shading trees as adaptive mechanisms through behavioural thermoregulation. Unfortunately, the indoor academic spaces of LAUTECH campus was not...

Post occupancy evaluations (POE) have been discovered to be of high importance in building design deci- sions. The study explored POE to assess the users' satisfaction with the office spaces of Ladoke Akintola University of Technology (LAUTECH) Senate Building, Ogbomoso, Nigeria. The aim was to measure the influence of workplace design quality on w...

The subjects, building setbacks and landscape quality, can be considered as “duo” in view of their interwoven relationships as major determinants of open space quality in residential neighbourhoods. In view of the numerous benefits and functions of residential open spaces, these were examined in LAUTECH neighbourhood. The purpose was to assess the...

The built environment is the history of man. The undying stones of monuments are the tables from which this history can be read. Thus, the life of man in the past, its values in the present and directions for the future are embellished on these stones. Historic cultural heritages cannot be expressed in any other better form than in buildings. Sussa...

Space setting relates to the environment designed and created as a workplace for a group, which affects individuals and evokes some behavioral response from them. This paper analyzes the role of sensory receptors in the interaction between people and their environment in the particular case of Industrial Design Programs in tertiary institutions. It...

The poor quality of the Nigerian urban environment has been attributed partly to the inadequate%2C misuse and mis- management of the urban open spaces. This%2C according to various researchers%2C has exerted a major strain on the physical outlook of the environment and a negative effect on the welfare and productivity of the residents. This has cal...

The essence of building design process and management for building sustainability in the creation and maintenance of a qualitative architectural product is investigated in this paper. The design process, concept of building sustainability and particularly the quality of the built environment are discussed. Akure, a state capital in Nigeria was used...