Providing Adequate Housing Accommodation for Medium and High

Earners:
A Case Study of Eti-Osa LGA, Lagos State.

Design title: Condominium

By

Bamidele Timileyin Gabriel

Student Number: F/HD/17/3540007

Supervisor

Arc. F .B. Adelekan ……………..………………………

…………….…………………………………

Arc. F .B. Adelekan

March 2019
 Declaration

This work represents my own written work and that I have used no sources and aids other

than those indicated. All passages quoted from publications or paraphrased from sources are

properly cited and attributed.

The work was not submitted in the same or in a substantially similar version, not even

partially, to another examination board and was not published elsewhere. I confirm that the

intellectual content of the work is the result of my efforts and no other person.

Signature: ……………………………….

Name: ……………………………….

Date: March 2019

 Dedication

I dedicate this project to God Almighty with great honor and adoration and to my loving

parents, Mr. and Mrs. Bamidele. They taught me the virtue of hard work and perseverance.
 Acknowledgment
Thank you to everyone who contributed to the success of this project, Oladapo Adeniyi,
Olawale Abiola and to Arc. F .B. Adelekan, my supervisor.
 Table of Contents

Title Page

Declaration …………………………………………………………………………i

Dedication …………………………………………………………………………iii

Acknowledgements …………………………………………………………………iv

Table of Content …………………………………………………………………vi

List of Tables …………………………………………………………………………viii

List of Figures …………………………………………………………………vii

Glossary of Terms …………………………………………………………………ii

Chapter 1

General Introduction

1.0 Introduction

1.1 Background to the study

1.2 Knowledge Gap

1.3 Research Questions

1.4 Statement of aim and objective

1.5 Scope of Study

1.6 Significance of Study

1.7 Limitations of Study

1.8 References
Chapter 1

General Introduction

1.0 Introduction
"Condominium" is a Latin word formed by adding the prefix con- ("together") to the
word dominium ("domain, property, ownership"). Its meaning is therefore "shared property".
Condominium is a form of legal ownership. Condominium ownership combines individual
ownership of a living unit with shared ownership of the common property and shared
participation in the condominium corporation. Condominium properties can be high-rise
towers, low-rise walkups, townhomes, single-family homes, lofts in other words a
condominium is a dwelling in a multi-unit building that is differentiated from an apartment
through ownership. Condos are popular in urban areas, but any multi-unit building can be a
condominium if individuals are allowed to purchase units. While condo owners can modify
their unit’s interior, use and management of common facilities and areas, such as hallways,
elevators, heating systems, and exterior spaces, are controlled by a governing body that
represents the interests of all the condo owners.

1.1 Background of Study

It is a housing concept where the owner has title to the condominium unit, typically starting
from the walls inward, and they share in the ownership and responsibility for maintaining the
common structural elements and amenities if any.

By that definition, recent historical accounts trace the condominium back to New York City in
the 1800s. According to Hunter College assistant professor Mathew Lasner author of High
Life: Condo Living in the Suburban Century, the first condominium was built in New York
City in 1881. It had eight units and was developed to address housing needs of city dwellers
who did not or could not afford a single family home, but did not want to be renters. Mr. Lasner
even tracked down the name of the first buyer in this building, a journalist name Junius Henri
Browne. Although the building has since been demolished, it is seen as the first multifamily
building that we would recognize as a condominium.
A number of issues have limited the appeal of condominiums, including cheap land, cities
needing room to grow and financing. In the early 20th century, Puerto Rico passed the first
modern condominium statute, called a Horizontal Property Act. This provided a legal
framework for developers and purchasers to deal with the ownership and maintenance issues
that arise from the co-ownership of common elements. The law was updated in 1958 and
American developers soon picked up on the concept.

Graystone manor, built in 1960 is cited as the first modern condominium in the United States
and was built shortly after Utah adopted a state Condominium Act. Shortly after the Federal
Housing Administration began allowing federally backed funding for condominiums, the flood
gates were open. Today there are more than 30 million condominium units in North America
a number that will continue to grow in the years ahead.

Evolution of multi-storey, multi-apartment residential buildings is generally associated

with industrial revolution and the dwellings created for the masses of working class people
flocking into towns and cities in its wake. According to the interpretation discussed in detail in
the introduction, this form of housing actually became massively widespread in the early 20th
century. However, it has some fairly early prototypes. If we survey secular vernacular or early
architectural examples, it also becomes obvious that, in spite of its multi-storey design and
density, it does not only exist in societies that enjoy higher technological standards in an
urbanized environment.

In the town of Shibam, Yemen, ten-storey residential high-rises were built in the 16th
century with fairly simple building technology using adobe. As for in South-East China and
Malaysia, clans co-farming still build common dwellings of more than one storey in natural
environments. Whereas, in the 19th- century, multi-apartment houses are a form of high-
density co-habitance where people feel compelled to live; the Chinese tulous as well as the
Malaysian longhouses are advantageous formations of co- operation or joint defence against
the enemy. Unfortunately, very little information remains to us about dwelling-houses from
historic periods, since they were typically made of poorer quality building materials than public
buildings and thus were destroyed. Although some of the palaces in the ancient world were
multi-storey and housed several suites, these cannot be interpreted as prototypes of more recent
multi-apartment buildings. Built for the purposes of the ruling circles, they contain enormous,
elegant suites as well as subordinate structures functioning as dwelling units for the servants
and guests. In this format they are actually enlarged variations of dwelling-houses. However,
we also know of the insulae built for the poorer social groups of the urban population in ancient
Roman times. Many of these early tenement houses were constructed during the Republic in
the 2nd-1st centuries B.C.E. The earliest of its known surviving examples are found in Ostia.
Masses of merchants, artisans, sailors and unskilled workers rented dwellings for themselves
in these buildings. The propped upper storeys projected above the ground-floor businesses and
worskhops on the mezzanine floor. The height of the houses reached 20 metres, and the
structures sometimes housed more than 8-9 storeys owing to the low heights. Designs with a
central courtyard or patio, with a central passage and with a garden were also documented. In
medieval urban centres, multi-storey residential developments in unbroken rows, occupying
tight sites surrounded by town walls, were initially built from wood or with timber frames.
Later on, in the Gothic Period, as the middle-class grew richer, they were typically made of
ashlar and brick. Chapters of architectural history describing dwelling-houses, however, tend
to focus on palaces, fortress-style castles and keeps or donjons. In the Renaissance and Baroque
Era, secular architecture and town- planning grew more significant. Middle-class dwelling-
houses were modelled after urban palaces. In the 18th century, the issues of middle-class
comfort and the facilitation of cosiness came in focus. Towns were becoming equipped with
watermains and sewage, although canalization was not unknown even in the Roman insulae
built about 2,000 years ago. The façades of these buildings follow classic Roman prototypes,
while the interiors are follow-ups upon axial sequences of spaces, typical of enfilades borrowed
from the Baroque. The masses of people moving into towns and cities after the industrial
revolution had found the cheapest homes available for them in multi-apartment residential
buildings. In the latter half of the 19th century, the urban population substantially multiplied
all over Europe. The tenement blocks built on the outskirts of the cities, then near the factories,
or on downtown sites to replace old houses soon deteriorated into slums. Because of the poor
living and housing conditions, the concept of multi- apartment buildings was a synonym for
the housing for the poor. Since it was a profitable investment of capital, the construction of
tenement houses provided a temporarily response to the urgent housing shortage issue; yet, the
lack of basic hygienic equipment, the stuffiness, the scarcity of light, and the high-density of
housing led to frequent epidemics among people living in unhygienic dwellings. Over-
crowded high-density tenement houses generate similar problems both in Europe and North
America.

1.2 Statement of Problem

Lagos is the most populous state in Nigeria with 23 million population receives 123,840 visitors

on a daily basis. And having people doing businesses, trades and civil works in Victoria Island.

The increasing number of people working in Victoria Island with some coming from Ajah,

Ikeja, Ikorodu, Yaba, For this reason,

there has been daily traffic congestions related to transportation.

 Reduced distances between housing, workplaces, retail businesses and other amenities.

 More compact development, land-use synergy.

 Stronger neighborhood character, sense of place.

 Walkable, bike-able distance neighborhoods, increased accessibility via transit both

resulting in

 Reduced transportation need and cost.

1.3 Aim of Study

Aim

This study aims to define challenges of design considerations to produce a building that will

Alleviate the incessant urban housing problems and accommodate several uses and activities

such as leisure, residences vertically.

1.4 Objective of Study

Objectives

i. To accommodate several functions in a high-rise building to save horizontal land use and

need for far distance movement for daily living.

ii. To identify some of the urban design principles used in solving the urban design problems

of congestion (vehicular and human), urban sprawl, etc.

iii. To conduct a research into the concept of multi-storey developments as an urban design

approach

iv. To identify the various types and functions of multi-storey apartment developments.

v. To show how the concept of multi-storey apartments development can be used to solve some

of Nigeria’s urban (transportation) problems and promote public health.

1.5 Scope of Study

This study is done to resolve the housing difficulty of migrants in to Victoria Island, this

study propose a condominium:

 1-6 bedroom super-luxury apartments all featuring private balconies. Pool-side villas,

Lofts and pent houses.

 studio apartments

 stunning penthouses

 Helipad

 Spa featuring body treatments and scrubs

 Fitness Centre open 24 hours

 Outdoor swimming pool

 car parking

 24-hour laundry and dry-cleaning services

 Creche

 Sporting Facilities – Tennis courts, Badminton, Squash.

1.6 Significance of Study

Considering the advantages of housing schemes in the state, the integration of a

condominium facility in the provision of a solution to the problems faced by the Lagosians

and people who works and would love to work in Victoria island.

• To help reduce the inconvenience of workers in Victoria island, thereby reducing

stress which prevents break down of their health to foster productivity.

• Encourage more people to consider residing on the island as a comfortable, safe,

pleasurable and alternative to housing needs.

1.7 Limitations of Study

This study helps to proffer reasonable solutions to the problems related to this project,.

Unfortunately, these are affected by some limitations, which could affect the research. The

methodological limitations of the study are as follows:

 Lack of access into existing condominium facility like 1004 estate in Victoria Island.

 This study helps to provide solution to the housing needs in adeyemo alakija, eti osa local

government, Victoria island only.

1.8 References

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https://www.academia.edu/people/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=condominium

What is the history of condominiums (2017)

https://www.quora.com/What-is-the-history-of-condominiums

A brief history of the condo (2017)

https://hub.associaonline.com/blog/a-brief-history-of-the-condo

Assess suitability of condominium development to population in Kigali city (2017)

https://www.academia.edu/9962409/assess_suitability_of_condominium_developments_to_p

opulation_in_kigali_city

Daylight illumination levels in varied room at the view condominium penang Malaysia

(2013)

https://www.academia.edu/9159628/DAYLIGHT_ILLUMINATION_LEVELS_IN_VARIE

D_ROOM_CONFIGURATIONS_AT_THE_VIEW_CONDOMINIUM_PENANG_MALAY

SIA

Condominium common sense condominium law group (2010)

https://www.pdfdrive.com/condominium-common-sense-condominium-law-group-

e9787746.html

Condominium Housing In Ethiopia (2011)

https://issuu.com/unhabitat/docs/condominium_housing_in_ethiopia