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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