PASSIVE DESIGN APPROACH IN PLANNING AND DESIGN OF CRUISE TERMINAL IN EKO ATLANTIC CITY, LAGOS, NIGERIA

Buildings are responsible for over 40% of the global energy consumption in recent times. This has led to the advancement of various strategies for ensuring that building can still perform optimally with a reduce energy consumption level. Designers of modern building structure need to develop a new approach towards harnessing the attributes of nature and its immediate environment in order to achieve a great level of building indoor thermal performance of the building structure. The concept of passive design planning and strategies has been known to achieve such thermal performance in building structure and reducing energy consumption to the barest minimum. The study aims at examining how passive design approach can be implemented in the planning and design of transport buildings with a view to evolving an architectural design proposal of a cruise terminal building. The research was carried out to explore the various passive design strategies also, identifies the level of awareness of these strategies by professionals of passive planning and strategies. The data used in the research were collated through the administration of questionnaires to architects and case studies of transport terminal buildings. Data retrieved were analysed using a descriptive statistics and content analysis. The finding from the survey analysis reveals that few passive design and planning strategies are being implemented in the design of terminal buildings however, certain strategies are being ignored thereby increasing energy consumption and reducing user comfort. The findings of the study emphasizes the need for the employment of these passive design strategies and planning in buildings in view if reducing the current global energy consumption and also achieving a high level of indoor thermal comfort to be experienced by the users of transport terminal buildings