EVALUATING CONFORMITY TO UNIVERSAL DESIGN PRINCIPLES TO ENHANCE INCLUSIVENESS IN THE DESIGN OF PROPOSED MODERN SPORT COMPLEX, KANO

📄 Project Abstract

Sport has been realized as a key towards healthy developments, sport complex is a sport facility comprising of facilities such as stadium; baseball stadium, football stadium, track and field events, swimming pools and indoor sport. Sport activities involve all groups of people; children, adults and elderly, able and disable people, some groups of people come across barriers when participating in sport activities which hinder there effective inclusiveness in their communities. Therefore standard design should be maintained to carter for all these groups of people. The study is aimed at evaluating the conformity to inclusive design principles to enhance inclusiveness in sport activities, through evaluating universal design for spaces and activities in sport complexes and accessing conformity of sport complexes to universal design. The methodology employed a mixed-method approach which (quantitative and qualitative methods), which include visual survey (case study) checklist, and intervie...