Making University Campuses Suitable for The Physical and Motor Disabled People (Case Study: College of Fine Arts, University of Tehran)
Matin Bastanfard 1 and Katayoun Taghizadeh 2 *
1
Faculty Member of Shahrood University of Technology,
Shahrud,
Iran
2
School of Architecture,
University of Tehran,
Tehran
Iran
http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.11.Special-Issue1.09
Social growth and prosperity in any society depends to a high extent to supply of welfare facilties and providing suitable spaces to use them. These facilities assist in the grounds for social growth only if their scope covers all individuals of the society with special needs.
Since a major part of any society is constituted by the aged, disabled, impaired and disabled people, failure to pay attention to that class not only may result in their lack of motivation and deprivation of society from the capabilities of such an important class, but also it may impose heavy social and economic costs on the country. Therefore, equalization of opportunities in enjoying social facilities is of great importance for that class. An approximately 10% disability estimated by the international community for Iran with a population of over 70 million people based on the general census in 2006 can include approximately 7 million disabled with different kinds of disability. Architectural and urban obstacles are among those major problems for the physically disabled people that hinder them from attending in social, economic and cultural activities. The existing problems in urban pedestrian access network and lack of any continuous easy movement in walking routes, staircase in many buildings and lack any elevator between the building storeys have made impossible independent movement in the city and use of buildings for a part of the society.
In this way, College of Fine Arts of the University of Tehran as one of the university spaces with a long antiquity and at the same time with access problems for physical and motor disabled people has been studied so that some solutions can be provided for the disable to improve the spaces of that college.
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Bastanfard M, Taghizad K. Making University Campuses Suitable for The Physical and Motor Disabled People (Case Study: College of Fine Arts, University of Tehran). Special Issue of Curr World Environ 2016;11(Special Issue 1(2016). DOI:http://dx.doi.org/10.12944/CWE.11.Special-Issue1.09
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Bastanfard M, Taghizad K. Making University Campuses Suitable for The Physical and Motor Disabled People (Case Study: College of Fine Arts, University of Tehran). Special Issue of Curr World Environ 2016;11(Special Issue 1(2016). Available from: http://www.cwejournal.org?p=929/
