TRANSFORMATION IN HAUSA TRADITIONAL RESIDENTIAL ARCHITECTURE: CASE STUDY OF SOME SELECTED PARTS OF KANO METROPOLIS BETWEEN 1950 AND 2005

📄 Project Abstract

Housing has to satisfy both the initial human shelter need and the additional needs as they arise. Such additional needs may be as a result of changes in the original need; changes in economic status, socio-cultural needs, spatial needs or just the addition of new needs, as well as the availability or affordability of building materials. The change in needs serves as the genesis of all forms of spatial transformation in buildings. In the light of the above, this study deals with five contemporary categories of Traditional residential housing, in design and construction of Hausa traditional residential buildings in some selected parts of Kano metropolis The essence of this study is to explore the transformations patterns of Hausa traditional residential architecture in terms of concept, geometric form, building materials, and factors or reason behind such transformations and their impact. Appropriate methodologies were used for the study of the Hausa domestic architecture as exemplified...