EVALUATION OF ARCHITECTURE AS A TOOL TO ENHANCE CREATIVITY IN THE DESIGN OF A CENTRE FOR ARTS AND CREATIVITY, ABUJA

📄 Project Abstract

This research sought to evaluate how architecture can be a tool to augment creativity in centres for art. Creativity is characterised by non- linear, organic and open minded ideas hence so when the environment where humans occupy is designed with such considerations in mind, the Architecture plays a very integral role in enhancing the efficiency of Artists. Artists have challenges of creative block which can be attributed to the environment and spaces they occupy also these environ can be underutilised when the building does not effectively communicate the function which it is to serve, otherwise called user-friendly design. The research highlighted the components of creativity (motivation, creative thinking, and knowledge) and how the basic architectural elements such as thermal comfort and temperature, access to nature, views and daylight, sensory change and variability, colour, noise control, less crowding, human factors and ergonomics, indoor air quality, flexibility and adaptable ...