ZARIA RAILWAY STATION

(Redevelopment Scheme)

A THESIS PRESENTED

TO

THE DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE,

FACULTY OF ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN

AHMADU BELLO UNIVERSITY, ZARIA.

IN PARTIAL FULFILMENT OF THE REQUIREMENT

FOR THE AWARD OF THE DEGREE OF MASTER

OF SCIENCE IN ARCHITECTURE

BY

AKOWONJO HAKEEM OLAWALE

NOVEMEBR, 1999
 ABSTRACT

The railways was the single greatest and most far-reaching

innovation of the 19th century, re-shaping both towns and countries and

transforming societies, the principal task of the railway was, however,

moving of raw materials and manufactured goods.

The Nigerian railways, despite the fact that there was relatively high

volume of passengers in the stations, it has little or nothing to offer in

terms of comfort from the station where journey begins to the destination

station.

The poor condition in the stations and in the trains can be described

as hell, where bonafide ticket holders have to struggle before boarding the

trains, this can be attributed to the poor ticket collection and checking

system, coupled with the multi-exit situation in most of the stations. This

allow for the indiscriminate presence of hawkers, beggars and sometimes

insane fellows in the stations.

The redevelopment of Zaria railway station will be the subject of

consideration for the purpose of this thesis, it may suffice to say that the

existing structures of the stations are no doubt functionally inadequate and

aesthetically bankrupt amongst other attendant problems.

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 This work is projected at transforming the expression of the

structures to be more adaptive without compromising the judicious

appropriation of functional spaces, upholding hierarchy and establishing a

chaos free circulation pattern within and outside the structural envelope of

the station.

It cannot be overemphasized that the spicing of the 'near relics' on

ground will encourage patronage and regain the confidence of the general

populace and invariably the Government.

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