ENHANCING SECURITY RESPONSIVENESS THROUGH SPATIAL ORGANISATION IN THE DESIGN OF PARAMILITARY HEADQUARTERS IN NIGERIA: PROPOSED POLICE ZONAL HEADQUARTERS, ABUJA.

📄 Project Abstract

Nigerian paramilitary headquarters have, in the recent years faced multiple challenges as far as their home security is concerned. Several attacks by aggressors have been reported through media and eyewitnesses. This has proven that the building designs and spatial organization of the headquarters are vulnerable and penetrable and therefore need security enhancement. However, there has not been any comprehensive research to show that new security measures through spatial design, unique to paramilitary buildings have been introduced. For that reason, this study endeavours to fill in that research gap; the aim been to enhance security responsiveness in the design of paramilitary headquarters by ensuring apposite spatial organization. To bring this to fruition, survey method was adopted. Since considerable amount of relevant information about individual experiences of others is required, structured interview and visual survey were used as instruments of data collection. To narrow down the...