ABSTRACT
Mans activities are affected in several ways by the immediate environment he lives in and what condition he found himself. Any activity that gives pleasures and is engaged in form of choice and not from necessity can be considered recreation”. Park and recreation, the benefit is endless”. If man spends his time wisely, he can greatly enrich his life. His recreation can help to discovered new talents and to improve himself physically mentally and psychologically. This research is carried out to study what a recreation park is, their classifications and standards. Then the use of landscape to enhance the recreational revisions. Therefore Lekki Golf Center being a study area with recreational facilities will be a place for the projected recreation parks.
CHAPTER ONE
1.0 BACKGROUND TO THE STUDY
Recreation is an activity that people voluntarily pursue for personal enjoyment or satisfaction, usually during their free time. Recreation takes variety of forms and occurs in places, depending on the choice of the individual. Some recreations are passive, such engage on recreation in their homes or communities or they may travel along distance for a recreation activity.
Since the end of World War II in 1945, recreation has become an important element in modern life. High incomes and improvement in working conditions and transportation have given many people more money, time and mobility for recreation. Today, recreation is a major industry.
Recreation provides pleasures for millions of people but it may also make an important contribution to an individual mental and physical health. For example, a hospital often organizes recreational activities under trained supervisors as therapy for patients.
Therefore, this project report will examine in a broad overview of the social and planning philosophers that lie behind the location, programming and operation of the future of recreation. It is proposed to bring out visually and verbally the most creation new idea and speculative on what potentials these may hold for the future, taking into consideration the desire of children, adults and the community at large. (The world book encyclopedia.)
1.1 MOTIVATION
A country with a high standard of living is bound to have a high participation in recreational park. The high standard of living referred to their centers on high disposable income, which is also accompanied by reduction in working hours and long leisure time.
These have to be money to spent, as well as the referee time to spend it. Some geographical and social factor previously discussed, on the introductory page.
1.2 STATEMENT OF PROBLEMS
A wide range of recreational facilities (including golf clubs) had hitherto been the product of panic adoption of ill-considered facilities on unsuitable sites. Many if not all, are apparently lacking in unique architectural character that could be perceived as growing out of the environment with voids that make way for the utilitarian, symbolic, therapeutic leisure and visual elements of landscape.
Considering the heavy population, hustle and bustle of the city, there is therefore the need to create a more spacious, accessible, coherent, adaptable and sophisticated recreation center; a better deal for tourists.
1.3AIMS AND OBJECTIVES
Materials and forms are used to communicate ideas and meanings in Architecture. When the fusion of architecture and water is treated carefully and creatively, the potential for meaningful expression is practically limitless.
The aim of this project is to create an avenue where the tourism potentials of the coast can be show cased and to incorporate the different facilities required.
The objectives include: –
(a) Provision of an interceptor area where the availability of new sport and recreation facilities may reduce pressures in the city center.
(b) It would act as an opportunity area where environmental improvement and landscape regeneration would encourage participation in sport recreation.
(c) Providing a landmark for Lagos state while meeting the needs of local and international tourists alike.
(d) The provision of maximum range of facilities for leisure, recreation, entertainment and opportunities, that meets up with a wide range of choice of different lifestyles, expression and taste.
1.4 SCOPE OF STUDY
The scope of this thesis will be limited to the provision of facilities for social activities. This would include provision of services and information center, golf clubhouses, golf course, shops, allied sporting activities and miscellaneous with the detail landscaping of the center as a key design determinant.
1.5 SIGNIFICANCE OF STUDY
Apart from aesthetic considerations, technique and functionality has a Major role to play in the control and improvement of the quality of the built environment.
A well-landscaped recreation environment acts as an intermediary that negotiates connection or separations between people and the built environment, thus communicating meanings through proper utilization of forms and materials.
1.6 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The process of data collection and analysis shall be through the following sources.
(a) PRIMARY SOURCE: This includes obtaining information from existing golf clubhouses and recreation centers through case studies and design reviews.
(b) SECONDARY SOURCES: These include journals, periodicals, past thesis, the Internet e.t.c.