hi all,
the following appeared in todays Inclusion Daily express
http://www.InclusionDaily.com
ACCESS:
***BUILDER NAVIGATED IN WHEELCHAIR BEFORE TACKLING HOME'S DESIGN***
ALBUQUERQUE, NEW MEXICO--Here's a nice story from the Albuquerque Journal
about a "Dream Home" built specifically for an owner who uses a wheelchair.
The builder worked "hand-in-hand" with the owner to customize it and make it
accessible for wheelchair users and walkers alike.
Nice place.
With a $1.4 million price tag, it should be.
Here's the article:
http://www.abqjournal.com/homes/212850homes12-31-00.htm
The article tells how the builder who constructed this accessible home
spent some time in the owner (and designer)'s wheelchair before starting
work on the house.
While the builder himself admits that he wouldn't expect this to give him
any kind of understand of what it is like to be comfined to the chair he
said it helped him understand the practicalities of what his client was
asking him to do.
That all sounds fine but he still admitted that without the constant
guidance of the client he couldn't of completed the job so what purpose did
the simulation exercise really serve?
Desirable though the home sounds it certainly isn't an exercise in financial
restraint with a $8000 a month mortgage.
and its a shame the writer ruined the disability friendly home story with
repeated use of the term "handicapped"
Adrian Higginbotham.
SURFACE (Salford University, Research Focus on Accessible Environments).
tel: (44_-161-2953949,
fax (44)-161-2955011,
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textphone (44)-161-2953599.
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