ABSTRACT
The aim of this study was to evaluate the Uga Microfinance Bank in Aguata L.G.A Anambra State. Three research questions were formulated and tested. The specific objectives are to determine a centralized location, comfortable spaces and good design in Microfinance Bank. The result was obtained using questionnaire method, which was carefully analyzed. The population is 364 in number, where random sampling method were used to obtain a sample size of 36 which represent 10% and 35 were returned. From the data collected, it was discovered that there is need for another location, functional spaces and re-designing of Uga Microfinance Bank.
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CHAPTER ONE
INTRODUCTION
1.1Â BACKGROUND OF THE STUDY
The history of micro financing can be traced back as long to the middle of the 1800s when the theorist Lysander Spooner was writing over the benefits from small credits to entrepreneurs and farmers as a way getting the people out of poverty. But it was at the end of World War II with Marshall Plan the concept had a big impact. The today use of the expression micro financing has it roots in the 1970s when organizations, such as Grameen Bank of Bangladesh with the microfinance pioneer Mohammad Yunus, where starting and shaping the modern industry of microfinancing (Wikipedia 2015).
In United States, microfinance institutions were developed in 1980s. They served low income and marginalized minority communities. By 2007, there were 500 microfinance organizations operating in the US with 200 lending capital (Wikipedia 2015). In Africa the first credit union in Africa was established in Northern Ghana in 1955 by Canadian Catholic missionaries. However, susu, which is one of the micro finance schemes in Ghana, is thought to have originated from Nigeria and spread to Ghana in the early twentieth century.
In Nigeria micro finance banking came into being in 2005 with the launching of the micro finance policy by the former CBN governor Professor Chukwuma Soludo. The policy was influenced by the globally acclaimed impact of micro finance in helping the economically active poor to exit the poverty threshold and thus leading to significant poverty reduction. Hence micro finance banking was introduced with the expectation that over time, it would in reducing poverty in the country (Ngutor Nyor, 2013). In Anambra state, micro finance banking came into existence following the 2005 government policy which leads to the conversion of community banks to micro finance bank so many banks were given provisional approval while others were given final license (Chukwuma 2017). In Uga micro finance bank came as a result of 2005 policy so Uga community bank was converted to Microfinance bank with provisional approval (Umunne, 2019).
1.2 STATEMENT OF THE PROBLEMS
Despite the importance of micro finance bank to the community, there has been complaint form both staff and customers regarding to
- The location
- The design
- Space
1.3 AIM AND OBJECTIVES
The aim of this study is to evaluate the location design and space of Uga micro finance bank building.
1.4 SIGNIFICANCE OF PROJECT
This project is geared at examining the prevailing fashion sector of Nigeria with special reference to Enugu state.
The research will highlight the problems, standards, requirements and pre-requisites in the design of a model fashion house. The primary aim of any architect is to organize space, enclose the organized space and check for safety, beauty and stability of the enclosed space. This project is significant in the sense that there is a realistic or rather possible alternative that will prevent disorganization, unavailability of enclosed space, presence of inadequate facilities, poor design conceptualization often evident in the design of buildings in the Nigerian fashion sector.
Through the proposal and recommendations put forward by the researcher, it is expected that fashion designers, policy makers and even private developers will make good use of such an opportunity to amend or develop in the future fashion homes/houses befitting of international standard.
1.5 SCOPE AND LIMITATION OF PROJECT
The fashion Exhibition center (fashion world) is a center of commerce which will include the administrative offices, Research and Design department, a runway auditorium, an Emporia, a cosmetic store, a beauty drug store, a photo shop, modeling agencies, image, makeup and costume consultancy center, a fashion exhibition and modeling gallery, a fashion design training centre, a massage/spa, a fitness center,
Unisex salons and hair treatment center, Fashion accessory Boutiques, shops to let, Restaurant and Restrooms and conveniences.
The outdoor spaces are as important as the indoor spaces; therefore, the landscape is to be properly integrated in the design with the terrain.
1.6 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
The method of research to be adopted involves the collection of data from both primary and secondary sources. Primary sources of information include personal interviews, on general planning principles; questionnaires (which will be distributed at random to people). Case studies of existing fashion shops with emphasis on their planning will be from personal observations, existing literature such as textbooks, published and unpublished works in paper print or in electronic format, magazines, journals, thesis reports, etc. The internet will be visited immensely for foreign case studies and data collection.
   The information gathered from all sources will be judiciously analyzed, evaluated and finally harnessed to meet the specific needs which would then provide a basis for the design of a Fashion Exhibition center (fashion world) Enugu.
CHAPTER TWO
              LITERATURE REVIEW
 2.1     HISTORICAL EVOLUTION OF FASHION
The first fashion designer who was not merely a dressmaker was (Charles
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