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Disability Housing Design

Objectives: • To Understand the design brief and the context of the project. • To be able to analyse your client and produce a client profile.*Takes about 4 Days.

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What do you think about disability?Introduction

• Discuss (with a friend that is also working on

this choice project) your views on people

with disabilities.

• Do you feel empathy for them?

• Do you know someone with a disability?

https://vimeo.com/87136072

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Design Brief

Design a ground floor living space for a wheel chair user including outdoor landscape.

The overall plot must not exceed 25m x 60m and the living space must not exceed 10m x 40m

Your task

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Your Client ProfileMain

A 26 year old Male who is into sports and gadgets. He enjoys socialising with friends, likes to be outside and his favourite place to

travel is the far east.

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The needs of your clientStarter

Make a brainstorm of the needs of your client with regards to design decisions. These should take into account the everyday needs of your client, the needs of your client as an individual and the special needs of your client concerned with their disability. Start with the following headings. You can add more bubbles if you like. (Make this on a scrap paper)

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Design Considerations: Access and HallwayThink about…

Why does the door have to be wider?

Will your spaces allow for movement &

turning of a wheelchair?

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Design Considerations: Kitchen and BedroomThink about…

What special modifications have been made

to this kitchen?

What equipment might a wheelchair user need in their bedroom?

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Design Considerations: Outdoor Environment and other areas• Does your client drive a car?• Do they want to socialise with friends outside?• Do they have any hobbies which need outdoor space?• Does your client need an external chill-out area?• What sort of plants and trees might they like?• Does your client enjoy watching television?

Think About….

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Initial ideas: Examples of floor plans and symbols

Example of what you will be making/symbols you will be using.

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Homestyler: Floorplan basicsWatch. Learn. Design

In this video, you will learn:

•How to open Homestyler•How to navigate the interface•How to lay out a floor plan•How to add windows and doors•How to change the properties of assets in your design

Watch Video 1 on ms.ashleystechworld.weebly.com

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Homestyler: Furniture Watch. Learn. Design


• How to find, select and add furniture to your design

• How to rotate and modify properties of your added furniture.


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Open the Software Lay out a floor plan Add furniture

What you should have achieved

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Real or RenderStarter

One of the best points of the Homestyler software is it’s ability to produce photo-realistic renderings of your designs. Decide weather the following images are real or produced in Homestyler?

They were all produced in Homestyler and you’re going to

render your designs to the same quality today!

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Homestyler: ExteriorWatch. Learn. Design


• How to lay out an exterior living area

• How to add outdoor assets to your exterior living area.


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Homestyler: SnapshotsWatch. Learn. Design


• How to set up and take a basic snapshot

• How to set up and take a high-resolution snapshot

• How to set up and take a 360 degree panorama


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Setup an exterior

Living space

What you should have achieved

Take a snapshot Make a 360 degree

panorama