Course detail

Accessible Architecture

FA-ARB-KEAcad. year: 2024/2025

The course consists of seminars where students will familiarize themselves with the issue of designing public spaces for the persons with limited capability of movement and orientation. They will work out a semestral work in the form of analysis and adaptation of a selected public space in exterior or interior. The course is coordinated with the specialists on accessible architecture.
In the study programmes “Architecture and Urban Design” the course is part of the technical courses.

Language of instruction

English

Number of ECTS credits

Mode of study

Not applicable.

Guarantor

Ing. arch. Jan Foretník, Ph.D.

Department

Department of Spatial Design (UPT)

Offered to foreign students

The home faculty only

Aims

Students will learn about the needs of the persons with limited capability of movement and orientation in public space.

Rules for evaluation and completion of the course

Evaluation consists of submitted semestral work and its presentation.
80 % of attendance is compulsory. Students must develop, consult and submit a semestral work.
In the case of a student's apology and with approval of the subject guarantor, personal attendance may be substituted with online attendance in the classes.

Study aids

Not applicable.

Prerequisites and corequisites

Not applicable.

Basic literature

HAMRAIE, Aimi. Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability. University of Minnesota Press, 2017. ISBN: 9781517901646. (EN)
MEUSER, Philipp. Accessible Architecture. Dom Publ, 2012. ISBN: 9783869221700. (EN)
WHITE, Robert W. Designing a Visible City for Visually Impaired Users: Breaking the Barriers of Disabling Architecture. University of Strathclyde, 2010. (EN)