Disabled Architets Solution's |
As materials for culture, the stones of the modern city seem badly laid by planners and architects. It has never been a feature of the culture, social ethics and practices of design professionals to see themselves as part of wider political processes. Disabled architects seem to have limited understanding of the relationship between values, design objectives, and the design intentions derived from them, with design theory tending to concentrate on the technocratic and technological, reducing questions of access and form to the functional aspects of the subject. The word, disabled architects, is not simply a deliberately provocative statement; it is a fact. Architects and their work profoundly and negatively affect the daily lives of disabled people. Here we wish to try and provoke architects into taking disability seriously and to stimulate a debate about the philosophy and ethos of architecture and the role of architects in society by criticizing severely the profession as presently practiced and taught. Our observations on disabled architects are based on a number of detailed empirical studies that have investigated disabled access in the country in relation to the labor market, education, shops, and public services, where poor architectural design was a prime factor in severely limiting opportunities and services. At the core of the 'social model of disability' is the notion that it is not impairment that disables people; it is society. Whereas the 'medical model of disability' views disabled people as victims of nature or fate and blames their exclusion from society on their impairments, the social model rejects such determinism. Instead, it argues that the reason why disabled cannot take part in activities and events enjoyed by able-bodied people is because they are not catered for. Here, the fact that someone in a wheelchair, for example, cannot get into a cinema or theatre or school with steps, is not due to the fact that they cannot walk or climb steps, but because there is no accessible ramp. In the earlier instance, the steps disable, not the
impairment. In other words, it is architectural design
that disables. As experts argue forcibly, whether architects
like the notion or not, they are predominately practicing
'design apartheid' whereby they design and construct
buildings and spaces that assume a 'sameness', an 'able-bodiness',
amongst a population. Such an assumption, grounded
in the ideologies of modernism that still largely underlines
architectural ethos, 'lock' disabled people out. 'Apartheid
designs' actually litter the landscape. Steps without
ramps or lifts, buildings without accessible toilets
and rooms, kerbs without dishing, doors that are too
narrow, cash machines and phone boxes placed too high,
and so on. Given that between lower percentage of the
UK population is disabled, a significant proportion
of society is affected by narrowly conceived architectural
practice. The time has finally come to promote disabled
architects across the nation to give them some relief
and comfort. And we are on a mission to do that. We
have retained an exceptionally efficient and innovative
group of architects adept in building disabled architect.
You can rely on them as they have adequate exposure
and experience in designing homes for safe build. Keeping
new house building regulations in mind and implementing
them with perfection, they will offer architects just
right for the disabled people. With us, disabled people
can throw day-to-day problems due to lack of disabled-friendly
architects out of their lives. |