DEAFSPACE PROJECT 

In 2005 architect Hansel Bauman (HB/a+p) established the DeafSpace Project (DSP) in conjunction with the ASL Deaf Studies Department at Gallaudet University.  Over the past five years the DSP developed the DeafSpace Guidelines, a catalogue of over one hundred and fifty distinct DeafSpace architectural design elements that address the five major touch points between deaf experiences and the built environment: space and proximity, sensory reach, mobility and proximity, light and color, and finally acoustics.  Common to all of these categories are the ideas of community building, visual language, the promotion of personal safety and well-being.