By Lilian Okoro
Mr Dipo Ajayi, President, Architects Registration Council of Nigeria (ARCON), on Friday urged architects to start designing low cost buildings using local materials for affordability.
Ajayi gave the advice while speaking with the News Agency of Nigeria (NAN) on the sidelines of Lagos Architects Forum 2019, organised by the Nigeria Institute of Architects in Lagos.
Ajayi said that using local materials for architectural works would make building designs less expensive and affordable to low income earners.
He noted that greater percentage of the Nigerian population fell under the category.
According to him, most building designs are constructed with imported and high cost materials, and as a result, are expensive and not affordable to low income earners.
He said that the increasing population of Lagos State had made it imperative that low cost houses should be constructed to prevent further creation of slum areas by people who could not afford…
Source: News Agency of Nigeria
