Hi
I haven't done building floor plans for workwork but I have done thema
few times for BiCon a convention I have helped run at UK University
campuses for several years. Over 50% of BiCon's delegates define as
disabled, especially high numbers with autism spectrum and MH conditions
such as anxiety so organising teams usually produce an access report and
sometimes floor plans in advance.
I did Nottingham's ESLC last year - the curviness was fun even if the
building itself was sensory-overload-tastic :).
Whole campus maps:
2015 Nottingham: last 2 pages of PDF have floor plans
http://2015.bicon.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/BiCon-2015-bisexuality-convention-handbook.pdf
We printed these in large colour and put them around the venue to help
our delegates orient themselves. In hindsight my colours weren't great
but were part of a theme and it was useful to work out which side things
were on. I got the original plan PDFs from the venue's conference team.
2011 Leicester Oadby campus: Whole campus map + 2 of the buildings our
convention used http://2011.bicon.org.uk/venue/access-report/
We used the same colour signage to direct people between buildings for
consistency.
2014 Leeds Trinity: 2nd page of PDF is whole campus map. The last 2
pages are floor plans of the two floors we used
http://2014.bicon.org.uk/wp-content/uploads/2014/07/Bicon-2014-handbook-2.0.pdf
We used rainbow colour coding for the room labels.
The way I made these plans was generally to get a PDF of the
university's own maps and then use Inkscape a free vector art package to
open them and trace the outline of the image and the key rooms and
components we wanted to show. I then added layers with labels and
different colours from the outline so I could quickly produce an outline
only or outline+labels version.
Drawing them out did take a bit of time, but I've learned how to do them
quite quickly now.
Natalya
On 24/05/16 10:44, Beck Maguire wrote:
> Dear All,
>
> At Nottingham, we are currently looking into how we can make our
> building plans more usable for disabled students. We’ve had feedback to
> say that students would like to have an accessible document which
> outlines key things such as where the reception is, lifts, accessible
> toilets, parking nearby and so on – practical information to help them
> to use a building more easily and quickly. Does anyone else have any
> experience of developing this type of resource that they would be
> willing to share?
>
> Many thanks for any help or advice you can give
>
> Beck
>
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