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UD Lab 2004. Designing for the 21st Century III, 08-12 December 2004, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Hubert Froyen, M.Arch. PHL Department of Architecture, Diepenbeek (B) University of Ghent, Faculty of Engineering, Ghent (B). UD Lab 2004. UD Education Project 2001
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UD Lab 2004 Designing for the 21st Century III, 08-12 December 2004, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil Hubert Froyen, M.Arch. PHL Department of Architecture, Diepenbeek (B) University of Ghent, Faculty of Engineering, Ghent (B)
UD Lab 2004 UD Education Project 2001 Initiative of 3 Belgian Schools of Architecture: HA, PHL, W&k Sponsored by: CeDuBo, September 2004
UD Lab 2004 Initial design Sept. 2002 Assignment 1: Laboratory setting for testing and demonstrating Principles of ‘Universal Design’
UD Lab 2004 ● Four parallel walls provide: ● Three rooms ● Four gates ● Eight façades -Wallspace -Shelves
UD Lab 2004 Realisation Sept. 2004 Assignment 2: Equip and furnish the UD Lab with UD objects, illustrations, building components, etc. Empty UD Support Structure
UD Lab 2004 PRINC.1 PRINC.3 PRINC.6 PRINC.7
UD Lab 2004 Use of the rooms Use of the gates
UD Lab 2004 Users/experts Arch. and OT student collaboration
UD Lab 2004 A rewarding and empowering experience
UD Lab 2004 To conclude: • UD principles focus on small scale objects • UD principles as didactic material • Levels of scale • Criticality & choice • Generative techniques • Anthropological questions at the core
UD Lab 2004 Photo: Karin Bendixen The Anthropological Question first : Physical access for whom ? Technical Questions second : How ?
UD Lab 2004 Previous experimental workshop 2003, now published Blindness and the Multi-Sensorial City Collaboration between Users/Experts, architects, anthropologists.. ● Disability leads to a particular perception of the world. New potentials ● Collaboration between disabled and non-disabled yields counter global, homogenizing trends ● Walk towards unknown territory