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Accessible Design: Projects, Journals & Ideas

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Accessible design ensures spaces, products, and digital interfaces work for everyone, regardless of ability. This includes considerations for mobility, sensory processing, cognitive differences, and chronic conditions. The field draws on research, user feedback, and universal design principles to remove barriers.

The community explores accessible architecture for neurodivergent users, healthcare facilities serving people with autism and dementia, barrier-free public spaces, and digital tools designed with accessibility standards. Projects range from specialized schools and care centers to inclusive public infrastructure.

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Magdalena Smieja1 work

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Herriot

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TERRACED SCAPES

Accessible garden spaces add life to elderly

haqi and farah

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Armadicar

To overcome the unpredictable disasters occurring on this planet, Armadicar – a mobile habitat inspired by Armadillo – provides an adaptive dwelling in a minimum space. With costumizable interior elements, openings and boundaries, Armadicar accommodates four-member family activities during days and nights, on land and water surface in sustainable way.

Julia

Autistic childcare centre

The design is focused on providing sensory comfort for its users and on supporting the therapeutic process. The urban layout of the building is the result of an analysis of the needs of autistic children, such as the need for order and repetition, as well as the scattered building arrangement surrounding the plot.

Magdalena

BARRIER-FREE CENTRE - HEALTH CARE SPACE FOR PEOPLE

The barrier-free centre functions both as a dementia day care facility and offers a round-a-clock care service. The project is a response to the growing number of people suffering from dementia, who are in need of professional medical care. The project was created in cooperation with two nonprofit organizations.

Akshat and 3 others

Visionary

School design for the visually impaired children

Joel

DIGITAL DASH

The retail design, which aims to move the industry forward into a digital, age is based around the three principles: flexibility, dynamic, interactive.

Mubasshira

Exploring The Seamless Neuroscape

The project addresses the challenges faced by children with neurodevelopmental disorders in Bangladesh, where disability is often stigmatized. Its primary objective is to create an inclusive and supportive environment that integrates vocational training, education, therapy, and accommodations, while combining architecture with behavioral science.

Nidhi

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Kyung Ho

Adjustable Sink

For the Kids, disabled, or elderly who have trouble with fixed sinks either due to being it too high for them or being too low for them has always been the problem. To tackle this discomfort in our everyday lives, our team came up with an innovation that lets this discomfort go away. The adjustable Sink adjusts its height just right for the person using it.

Lindsey and Daryl Martin

Konect

Konect. An urban furniture system that links the changing needs of its users based on a location and its Interstitial Spaces.

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UNI Editorial

publishedResults2 weeks ago

Barrier-Free Centre: A Low Brick Courtyard Building That Treats Dementia Care as a Question of Orientation

Magdalena Śmieja's care centre in Gliwice pairs day care and round-the-clock living under long canopies, using contrast and calm to ease orientation.

Ageing-Well Design

Accessible Design

Nabila Nusrat

publishedDesign Process11 months ago

Design Process

This project proposes a community-sensitive design that can be adaptable to their future growth and help reduce social exclusion. It explores the impact housing can have in reducing social exclusion.

Building Design

Social Design

UNI Editorial

publishedStory1 year ago