Accessibility as heritage

Accessibility as HeritageChristiaan Zandstra

Workgroup Architecture for All of the International Union of Architects

10 May 2016

Artena, Italy

Isn’t inaccesibility charming?

Skellig Islands, Ireland, World Heritage

We, however, do want to make our heritage accessible

Our interventions – The traces we leave behind in

the built environment

Sometimes very subtle

Bodemuseum, Berlin

Chateau de Versailles

Other times more profound

Stadshuset Stockholm

Or even very radical

Musée du Louvre

More examples of adapted heritage on www.accessibilite-patrimoine.fr

A worldwide emancipation of disabled people

• 1981, proclaimed as International Year of Disabled Persons by the United Nations

• from 1983 until 1992, the Decade of Disabled Persons

• 1993, UN Standard Rules on the Equalisation of Opportunities for Persons with Disabilities

• 2006, UN Convention on the Rights of People with Disabilities

• Besides this national antidiscrimination legislations

Diversity in human functioning

- People using a wheelchair- People with walking difficulties- People with reduced manual dexterity/arm function/strength- People with vision impairments/blind- People with hearing impairments/deaf- People with intellectual/cognitive/mental impairments- People with allergies- People with diversities in age and stature

Standardisation

• Mandate 420 of the European Commission

• Development of an European Accessibility Standard

• ISO 21542 Building construction — Accessibility and usability of the built environment used as minimum

Standards in overview

Why are there standards? Always also involve user experience

Schindler Global AwardSince 2003 for design students

Access City Award, European Commission

Since 2011 for European cities

Winner 2011 Avila

Winner 2013 Berlin

Winner 2016 Milan

Friendly Spaces Award, International Union of Architects

Since 2014 for architects

Thank you very much for your attention

Sources of images

www.skelligislands.com

Still Beispiel Architektur Barrierefreiheit: Bode Museum, www.youtube.com/watch?v=7uSemV84pCA

www.accessibilite-patrimoine.fr/fr/

lundbergdesign.se/stockholms-stadshus.html

worldtoptop.com/the-louvre/

Es gibt keinen Standardmenschen, Volker Doose

CEN CENELEC AENOR, CEN/BTWG 207 "Accessibility in the built environment", 2011

Mistakes tactile paving, photos of Kees Tinga, Guus Braam

www.schindler.com/award.html

ec.europa.eu/social/main.jsp?langId=nl&catId=1141&newsId=2410&furtherNews=yes

www.mobidat.net

docplayer.it/5395074-Accessibilita-al-servizio-ferroviario-regionale-luigi-legnani-amministratore-delegato-di-trenord.html

www.uia.archi/en/exercer/nouvelles/8985#.Vzj4KJGLTIU