Wednesday, May 20, 2009
Friday, May 1, 2009
Floor Plans/Experiment
These are the first floor plans I did for the school, but after going over them with Prof. Bouratoglou I decided to change them because they were good for a regular school but not for a school where there will be lots of blind children.
The hallways had dead ends, and walls with sharp corners where circulation might become difficult. I designed the floor plans from my point of view but forgot that blind people might have a hard time with these sharp corners and hallways with dead ends.So I did a small experiment, I blind fold myself and walked from one end of the corridor to the other end. Suddenly the hallway that I knew so well became a totally different environment for me,everything seemed different;I had to feel the texture of the walls to find my way, so at the end I realized that I had come up with totally different plans to make circulation easier.
Here's a picture of me taken by prof.Bouratoglou while doing the experiment
The hallways had dead ends, and walls with sharp corners where circulation might become difficult. I designed the floor plans from my point of view but forgot that blind people might have a hard time with these sharp corners and hallways with dead ends.So I did a small experiment, I blind fold myself and walked from one end of the corridor to the other end. Suddenly the hallway that I knew so well became a totally different environment for me,everything seemed different;I had to feel the texture of the walls to find my way, so at the end I realized that I had come up with totally different plans to make circulation easier.
Here's a picture of me taken by prof.Bouratoglou while doing the experiment
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