Concept
From social exclusion to social inclusion. Children and young people with autism are often denied access to schools. Adults with autism often lack the support they need to gain and maintain employment. People with autism are often excluded in social settings where they struggle with interactions with other people.
Each time a person with autism is excluded the effects accumulate, often leaving people with autism isolated within their communities. While people with autism struggle with social interaction and communication, that does not mean they can’t be included as valued members of society like everyone else.
Social inclusion means having access to education, health care and services, as well as living in a society where other people make an effort to understand andincludepeoplewhoaredifferent.It also means having one’s concerns taken seriously when asking for support.
Design philosophy
But in order to achieve that we must remember that a designing for autism hadmanyaspects,andtherearealotof things must be control and design well, especially that a part of the project contain public visitors unless otherwise the project will fail to help autistics.
As i mentioned previously there are 9 aspects (ASPECTESS) must be achieved to create a friendly design for autism. Beyond the white will be achieved this aspect with focuses in three aspects of them, spatial sequences, sensory experience and escape spaces
As the autistics tend to get lost in spaces and feel overwhelmed, spatial sequences presented in the project as the guide for autistics started from the beginning of the journey, as a linear path make it easier to autistic to use and rememberdaily. In addition to that the sensory expense will be distributed around this path helping to achieve the main objective of the project. Escape spacesstandforthespacethatautistics could escape toward it when they feel overwhelmed.
I started the organization of the zones by separate the therapy zone and give itthewholeprivacyinordertostartthe healing process and trained autistics to interacts and communicate then integrate them to see the result or a way of treating too.
Experience section
Organization
The linear wall that shown in the diagram represent the friendly access for autism that will be with them in the process and protect them from outside either public visitors or maybe the direct sun light. The horizontal wall it separatesbetweenzoneswithdifferent function and different users start from the awareness and training zone, therapy zone and the community zone. The circulation would be smooth and easy as a linear corridor bath and, in all floors, make it easier to autistics to move and navigation
The integration process also will be smooth and step by step as we first make visitors aware of autism and how to interacted and communicate with the and autistics must first train.
The process starts of autistics see groups of public interact and communicate then they may join, so here the autistics had access to community zone but the opposite not. With reaching the farming zone the interaction between them will increase and they may get familiar to each other and start to make friends.
Organization
Therapy zone is associated with different outdoor spaces, first the sensory garden, second a ply filed and hasanaccessforparentsandthesetwo zones are private, the last is a greenery space and a play field for public visitors and autistics have access to this zone. The farming zone include all the users from autistics, parents and public visitors. As we may notice that the interaction between public and autistics start with outdoor spaces which is a step from the therapy as the autistics don’t feel that they forced to enterspacewithpeoplethathedoesn’t know. After the faming zone they may enter the restaurant, show spaces and trained zones together.
How to design spaces that are healthy for both our minds and our bodies?
Schematic section
The space is much more than just its appearance. Textures, smells, and sounds can strongly affect the user's experience. Based on this, sensory architecture can transform the interaction between people and the built environment into something even deeper.
he sensory process also start with a smooth transition which is mean the the sensory experine start with one sense to two and end with the five senses at the farming zone and the resturent that the person use all of his
Our senses are closely connected with memory, both recalling past ones and laying down new memories.
Denise Scott Brown once said: “Architecture can’t force people to connect; it can only plan the crossing points, remove barriers, and make the meetingplacesusefuland attractive.”
user experience
The integration process also will be smooth and step by step as we first make visitors aware of autism and how to interacted and communicate with the and autistics must first train.
Start of the journey
End of the journey
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