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Disability, Experience and Architecture:Towards Inclusive Sports and Leisure buildings
The built environment can greatly influence human activities, thus becoming an important factor in users’ everyday experiences, including those within sports and leisure buildings. For users with impairments in structure or body function, performing activities in the built environment can be a challenge as architectural design often does not take into account individual differences in perception and interaction with space. This leads these users to experience situations of disability and thus exclusion. The Danish goal of greater inclusion of people in sports and leisure activities necessitates research to better qualify the role of architectural design on impaired users’ spatial experience. By investigating the role of the built environment and its influence on the cognitive, physical and social activities of users with mobility, visual and hearing impairments, this study aims to develop knowledge on how architectural design can enable them to better perform, and thus participate, in sports and leisure activities. While current research concerning the influence of the built environment mostly focuses on identifying and addressing the environmental aspects which hinder user performance, this study takes a different approach by investigating how the built environment can play an enabling role in supporting and stimulating users activities. This study employs a phenomenological approach to explore the experiential dynamics between users and the physical space and utilizes the theory of affordances to delve deeper into how the designed characteristics of the built environment enable users with mobility, visual, and hearing impairments to perform cognitively, physically and socially. Drawing upon three existing analytical models which address and examine the dynamics between individuals and the built environment – the Person-Environment-Occupation, the Enabler and the Users-Environments – this study develops a new analytical model which focuses on the enabling mechanisms occurring in the person-environment dynamics. ...
Disability, Experience and Architecture:Towards Inclusive Sports and Leisure buildings
The built environment can greatly influence human activities, thus becoming an important factor in users’ everyday experiences, including those within sports and leisure buildings. For users with impairments in structure or body function, performing activities in the built environment can be a challenge as architectural design often does not take into account individual differences in perception and interaction with space. This leads these users to experience situations of disability and thus exclusion. The Danish goal of greater inclusion of people in sports and leisure activities necessitates research to better qualify the role of architectural design on impaired users’ spatial experience. By investigating the role of the built environment and its influence on the cognitive, physical and social activities of users with mobility, visual and hearing impairments, this study aims to develop knowledge on how architectural design can enable them to better perform, and thus participate, in sports and leisure activities. While current research concerning the influence of the built environment mostly focuses on identifying and addressing the environmental aspects which hinder user performance, this study takes a different approach by investigating how the built environment can play an enabling role in supporting and stimulating users activities. This study employs a phenomenological approach to explore the experiential dynamics between users and the physical space and utilizes the theory of affordances to delve deeper into how the designed characteristics of the built environment enable users with mobility, visual, and hearing impairments to perform cognitively, physically and socially. Drawing upon three existing analytical models which address and examine the dynamics between individuals and the built environment – the Person-Environment-Occupation, the Enabler and the Users-Environments – this study develops a new analytical model which focuses on the enabling mechanisms occurring in the person-environment dynamics. ...
Disability, Experience and Architecture:Towards Inclusive Sports and Leisure buildings
Cassi, Roberta (author)
2023-01-01
Cassi , R 2023 , Disability, Experience and Architecture : Towards Inclusive Sports and Leisure buildings .
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Electronic Resource
English
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