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1. Universal Design and Visitability:
From Accessibility to Zoning Conference: 13-14 July 2006
The Ohio State University, USA
Antika Sawadsri
School of Architecture, Planning and Landscape
University of Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
2. Content
- Personal Background
- Research Inspiration
- Objective of Research
- Research Question
- Research Framework
- Research Method and Findings
- Conclusion
- Bibliography
- Discussion
3. Background: Personal Background
Educational Background; B.F.A. and M.A. majored in Interior Design
Working as a practitioner
Le Corbusier: Modulor (1950) a: Encyclopaedia Universalis, 13, 654, Reference data for Human Dimension and Interior Space (1979)
Source: Online available www.xtec.es/.../credit/ credit0/voc/htm/voc3.htm
4. Background: Research Inspiration
People come in a range of
ages, sizes and abilities.
Source: Online available: www.ap.buffalo.edu/ idea/udny/Section1.htm
Disabilities and the built
environment discipline in
Thailand.
5. Objective of Research
1. To advance the state of knowledge concerning
environment-behavior studies in accordance with
user participation paradigm
2. To explore living behavior, spatial configuration
and need of physical environment in domestic
space of wheelchair users
6. Objective of Research
3. To explore the novelty of research methodology
by means of emerging subjective and objective
field research
4. To purpose the optimal and practical Universal
Design guideline for people with disabilities in
accordance with the Thai context
7. Research Questions
the design process of Universal design concept
• How people with disabilities live their lives in domestic
space and what is the characteristic of spatial behavior in
the Thai context?
• What is the proper spatial size and shape for Thai people
with disabilities and to what extent their co-residents
accept home modification?
8. Term of Definition
- People with disabilities: In this study referred to people
who has mobility difficulty and use wheelchair to circulate
in living areas
- Thai context: referred to the distinction of physical and
societal dimension such as socio-economic, socio-
cultural aspect, human proportion and attitude toward
disablement of Thai people
9. Term of Definition
- Accommodation, Domestic space, Living area:
referred to built environments within living areas where
people with disabilities and their co-residents live
together
- Environment-Behavior in living space: referred to daily
living activities of people with disabilities by using
wheelchair, such activities comprised; circulate from
place to place, transfer from wheelchair to furniture and
do activities on wheelchair
10. Theoretical Framework
Universal Design Concept
Environment-Behaviour
Study
Attitude toward Disabilities
and Home
The propose of Universal Design
guideline for modification home plan
in accordance with Thai context
11. Research Framework
This empirical research based on three lines of thoughts;
Universal Design model
- Concerning with people with less ability to live with able people in
the same built environment
- Aesthetic aspect of domestic spaces
Environment-behaviour study
- Using POE Post-Occupancy Evaluation experimental techniques
toward an optimal environmental solution for people with disabilities
- Experiment to investigate wheelchairs’ behaviour and spatial need
Attitude toward Disabilities and Home
- The pattern of co-residential acceptance toward modification plan
12. Variables
Two types of variables were used in the framework;
- Size and Spatial characteristics of each area
understudied vis-à-vis the pattern activities
- Attitudes of the people with disabilities and their
co-residents toward the acceptance of the needed
home modification
13. Research Method & Findings
Question 1: How people with disabilities live their lives in domestic spaces
and what is the characteristic of spatial behavior in the Thai context?
The research schedule comprised 31 investigation cases;
- the spatial behavior of people with wheelchair were
significantly dependent on the environmental conditions
- The variation in spatial arrangement also determined
the sizes and shapes of the needed space
14. Research Findings
The research found 3 types of activities and spaces
needed spatial modification to accommodate
wheelchair usage, it consists of;
Circulation routes Shifting of the subjects Daily activities while sitting
between their wheelchairs on the wheelchair
and other furniture
15. Research Method & Findings
Question 2: What is the proper spatial size and shape for Thai people with
disabilities ?
Quasi-experiments in 78 cases to investigate optimal
size and shape of areas to accommodate such activities
The experiment utilised the
measurement of human
behaviour “Anthropometrics”
and “Body Motion Envelop-
BME” (B.Lantrip in Steinfeld,E et
al.,editor, Enabling Environment, 1999)
Circulating Shifting
16. Research Method & Findings
Question 2: What is the proper spatial size and shape for Thai people with
disabilities ?
Recording and tracing their movement in ‘envelop’
Interview with close-ended and open-ended questionnaire; semantic
differential scale
17. Research Method & Findings
The significant variables such as body size, the extent of
disability, type of activities, approach to the area and the
individual’s skill for that particular activity play a crucial factor
to the size and shape of space.
18. Research Method & Findings
Question 2: To what extent their co-residents except home modification?
From 252 co-residents’
attitude toward the
suggested housing
modification
The study found that a
distinctive result against
finding from the Western
cultural context;
19. Research Findings
Co-residents discern neither the priority
of housing modification to accommodate
all users including the disable members
of the family in accordance with the
former environments nor the aesthetic
consideration.
Financial difficulty and the believe in
recovery of disabled member are major
factor.
20. Conclusion
The distinctive nature of people with disabilities
and co-residents; in term of socio-psychology,
the sense of belonging to their house, cultural
background the extent of disability and the
specific needs required by each of individual
residents.
21. Bibliography
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//www.adaptenv.org/universal.
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Fair Housing Accessibility, 2000. The Seventh Technical Requirements for Builders and Developers.
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National Kitchen & Bath Associate”
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Environmental Access State University of New York at Buffalo.
Steinfeld,E et al.,editor,1999. Enabling Environment. New York. Kluwer Academic / Plenum Publisher.
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