To establish an accessible society : a case study on barrier free environment in Wong Tai Sin district

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chun-yiu Sham
Keyword(s):  
Free Environment ◽  
Barrier Free

scholarly journals UNIVERSAL ENTRANCE TO A PUBLIC BUILDING: A TERM-PROJECT CASE STUDY

2020 ◽  
pp. 9-9
Author(s):  
Ivan A. Danilov
Keyword(s):  
Spatial Form ◽  
Public Building ◽  
Wheelchair Users ◽  
Design Project ◽  
Free Environment ◽  
Design Options ◽  
Contemporary Architecture ◽  
Barrier Free

The article deals with the challenge of designing an entrance that meets the requirements of a barrier-free environment and is aesthetically pleasing. Two entrance design options were considered: with a porch and without it. The first one is treated within historical timeframe and the second one is modern, allowing for massive use of wheeled portable vehicles to move purchases and personal belongings, driven by the power of one person. Two main contradictions have been revealed in the professional designer’s mindset when choosing entrance design for wheelchair users. The first is associated with the habit of using a porch as a historically traditional, unquestionable spatial form. The second is due to the usual reluctance to more carefully develop the vertical layout of the site in order to provide a porchless entrance to the building. The student design project considered demonstrates a creative solution overcoming these contradictions. The result is considered as a typological novelty in contemporary architecture.

Eyblism and the Social Environment in Theory and Practice

2020 ◽  
pp. 25-31
Author(s):  
N. N. Khomutova ◽  
K. A. Vizner ◽  
S. A. Makhortova ◽  
S. N. Chudievich
Keyword(s):  
Social Environment ◽  
Social Problem ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Theory And Practice ◽  
Social Survey ◽  
Good Level ◽  
The Social ◽  
Free Environment ◽  
Barrier Free

The problem of the discrimination of people with disabilities remains being an urgent social problem. Misunderstanding of the meaning of this problem by others results in a situation when invalid’s level of life cannot be equal to a healthy person’s level of life. This article raises the issue of ableism in order to explore the idea of barrier-free environment integration. The results of a social survey are demonstrating a good level of respondent’s awareness concerning this problem and their will to participate in a discussion and taking of measures for the integration of a barrier-free environment with the intention to raise the invalid’s level of life.

scholarly journals The Satisfaction Study of People with Disabilities Regarding the Restaurant with Barrier-Free Environment in Taiwan Tourism Area

2020 ◽  
Vol 13 (4) ◽  
pp. 1
Author(s):  
Cheng Chia-Hsin
Keyword(s):  
Service Quality ◽  
Physical Environment ◽  
Statistical Significance ◽  
Leisure Activities ◽  
People With Disabilities ◽  
Environment Design ◽  
Human Lifespan ◽  
Free Environment ◽  
Post Purchase ◽  
Barrier Free

The number of people with disabilities (PWDs) is expected to increase over years due to the increase of human lifespan and accidents. However, the PWDs as a result of some social factors, such as environment inaccessibility, insufficient job opportunity, inadequate education aids, etc. are excluded from participating their leisure activities or dining out in the society. This study aims to investigate and evaluate the design of barrier-free environment of restaurants in Taiwan famous tourism areas via the restaurant customer satisfaction of PWDs regarding the barrier-free facility and service quality. The results show that the qualified percentage of barrier-free physical environment design is only 44%, and PWDs are not satisfied with the barrier-free physical environment including the space allotted in parking lots, restroom accessibility for PWDs, as well as the slipperiness of floors. The regression analysis shows the barrier-free physical environment and service quality aspect with respect to post-purchase intentions reach statistical significance indicating the environment design for the PWDs is critical to the restaurant management especially in a tourism area.

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