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Inclusive School Design for Children with Visual Impairment: The Relation between Design Guidelines and Spatial Perception

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Last updated: 28 Dec 2024

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Architecture Engineering

Abstract

Inclusivity is a design approach that aims to include everyone, specifically people who are excluded or marginalized, and giving them equal opportunities. Visually impaired children tend to suffer from physical barriers in schools, due to the existing architectural visual dominance. The main research problem is that the inclusive school design criteria usually address the aspects of safety and accidents avoidance, not giving enough attention to the spatial experience. In this study, the relation between existing inclusive school guidelines for the visually impaired and the visually impaired perceptual tools is analysed. The results show how the design criteria that depends on non-visual spatial design details affect the spatial perception of the visually impaired children, and the strength of relationship between the available guidelines and spatial perception. It also prioritizes the guidelines based on their importance in relation to the visually impaired perception. The results can help school designers to enhance the visually impaired spatial experience by knowing which perceptual attribute to address.

DOI

10.21608/msaeng.2023.309314

Keywords

Inclusivity, Disability design, visually impaired children

Authors

First Name

sarah

Last Name

oteifa

MiddleName

magdy

Affiliation

Architecture Engineering, The British University in Egypt, Cairo, Egypt

Email

sara.magdy@bue.edu.eg

City

cairo

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First Name

Khald

Last Name

Dewidar

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Vice Dean at the British University in Egypt

Email

khald.dewidar@bue.edu.eg

City

Cairo

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-

First Name

Yasser

Last Name

Mansour

MiddleName

-

Affiliation

Professor of Architecture at Ain Shams University

Email

yasser_mansour@eng.asu.edu.eg

City

Cairo

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-

Volume

2

Article Issue

3

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42577

Issue Date

2023-06-01

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2023-07-22

Publish Date

2023-06-01

Page Start

111

Page End

131

Print ISSN

2812-5339

Online ISSN

2812-4928

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https://msaeng.journals.ekb.eg/article_309314.html

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MSA Engineering Journal

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Inclusive School Design for Children with Visual Impairment: The Relation between Design Guidelines and Spatial Perception

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28 Dec 2024