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Designing for the 21st Century III, 08-12 December 2004,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
Hubert Froyen, M.Arch.PHL Department of Architecture, Diepenbeek (B)University of Ghent, Faculty of Engineering, Ghent (B)
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Project 2001
Initiative of 3 Belgian Schools of Architecture:
HA, PHL, W&k
Sponsored by:
CeDuBo, September 2004
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Initial design Sept. 2002
Assignment 1:
Laboratory setting for testing and demonstrating Principles of ‘Universal Design’
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● Four parallel walls provide:
● Three rooms
● Four gates
● Eight façades
-Wallspace
-Shelves
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RealisationSept. 2004
Assignment 2:Equip and furnish the UD Labwith UD objects,illustrations,buildingcomponents, etc.
Empty UD Support Structure
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PRINC.1
PRINC.7
PRINC.3
PRINC.6
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Use of the rooms Use of the gates
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Users/experts Arch. and OT student collaboration
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A rewarding and empowering experience
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To conclude:
- UD principles focus on small scale objects- UD principles as didactic material- Levels of scale- Criticality & choice- Generative techniques- Anthropological questions at the core
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The Anthropological Question first : Physical access for whom ?Technical Questions second : How ?
Photo: Karin Bendixen
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Previous experimental workshop 2003, now published
Blindness and the Multi-Sensorial CityCollaboration between Users/Experts, architects, anthropologists..
● Disability leads to a particularperception of the world. New potentials
● Collaboration between disabled and non-disabled yields counter global, homogenizing trends
● Walk towards unknown territory