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Ibom Hall is a government building located in Uyo, Akwa Ibom State. The name identifies the building as the community town hall of all the citizens of Akwa Ibom State set apart from their ethnic town halls and squares.
The hall is also an event centre. It has played host to many social, business, political, religious and cultural events.[1]
History
[edit]The Hall was conceived by the Colonel Godwin Abbe [2]-led military administration [3]
It was designed by Esoetuk Ikpong Ikpong Etteh[4], principal partner of Pacs Associate, a Port Harcourt based architectural firm
Location
[edit]The Hall is located along the IBB Avenue, a road named for the Nigerian military president Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida who created Akwa Ibom State from the former Cross River State territory on September 23, 1987.
Architecture
[edit]The architecture of the Ibom Hall embodies a unique expression of architectural nuances peculiar to historicist Postmodern architecture. The building form is fragmented into different shapes joined together to make the whole.
The ornamentation on the building contains depictions that are believed to be the cultural practices of the Akwa Ibom people
The major features of the building are constructed in concrete, shaped to resemble different forms. The entrance has concrete umbrella-like structures over the canopy area. The hipped, gabled, and flat roofs over the other spaces are all made of concrete supported on waffle grid beam structures.
Building Orientation
[edit]The longitudinal axis of the building is oriented along an almost southeast-northwest direction, while the main entrance to the site and building is from the northeast of the plot through the Ibrahim Badamosi Babangida Avenue.
There is a signage with the name of the hall outside the perimeter of the hall
Building Form
[edit]The building form is an aggregate of different shapes.
The entrance canopy starts as a rectangular slab with four umbrella-like concrete structures marking its corner points. This structure connects to the building in a half-hexagon extending from the rectangular slab to form the roof over the entrance lobby.
This hexagonal entrance lobby connects to a rectangular space interrupted by a semi-circular recess on which forms the amphitheatre located on the northwestern exterior of the building. The lobby is roofed with a flat concrete slab.
The main hall is an octagon-shaped volume rising two floors. It is capped by a hexagonal hipped roof realised with reinforced concrete. It is bounded on the northeastern face by a colonnade which rises for one level to terminate at a slab decorated with ornamentation on the northwestern face. This colonnade leads to the stage's private entrance.
The stage is housed in a cubiform building joined to the hall by a party wall. It rises for two volumes to be capped by a pyramidal hipped roof having a steeply sloped face on the north eastern end
The columns on the northeastern colonnade connecting the entrance canopy to the stage's private entrance are cylindrical reinforced concrete columns with outer concrete skins that taper from their top towards the ground. The tapering begins about 100mm below the supported slab and terminates about 100-150mm above the floor below. The first floor of the hall has rectangular fins separating the aluminium profile-framed glass windows
Materials and Methods
[edit]All of the building's construction is done by using masonry or concrete to produce the sculptural shapes of the building
The roof of the main hall is supported by waffle-grid beams on the inside of the building.
The windows are made of glass and aluminium framing.
The columns are made of reinforced concrete
The entrance canopy's rectangular form features rectangular reinforced concrete beams. The beams inside the umbrella-like form elevated above the canopy slab take a cross-shape.
Ornamentation
[edit]The building features ornamentation depicting different images and activities. The sides of the slab around the entrance canopy and the northeastern colonnade walkway are decorated with different ornamental motifs.
The fence of the building also features different sculptural depictions of the lifestyles and cultural practices common to the indigenous peoples of the state.[5][6]
References
[edit]- ^ "A HALL AND A YEARNING". THISDAYLIVE. 4 April 2022.
- ^ "Former Governors - Akwa Ibom State Government". akwaibomstate. Akwa Ibom State Government. 20 July 2023.
- ^ "A HALL AND A YEARNING". THISDAYLIVE. 4 April 2022.
- ^ Babah, Chinedu (3 February 2017). "ETTER, Arc. Esoetol Ikpong". Biographical Legacy and Research Foundation.
- ^ Zanos68. "Sculptures Of Ibom Hall Building". Ecency.
{{cite web}}: CS1 maint: numeric names: authors list (link) - ^ "Can we have a look at sculptures?". Steemit. STEEM FOR LIFE. 6 October 2022.