Architecture for Visual Language and Communication : Space, Light, Color
Architecture for Sensory Reach : Transparency, Vibration, Reflection, Space
GALLAUDET DEAFSPACE DESIGN GUIDELINES
Our built environment, largely constructed by and for hearing individuals consists of barriers to which deaf people have responded with novel solutions altering their surroundings to fit their unique ways of communication and orientation. This approach is often referred to as DeafSpace.
The Gallaudet DeafSpace Design Guidelines—developed throug extensive user-driven research and design—codifies daily acts of making a DeafSpace using long-held cultural traditions as basic elements of an architectural expression unique to deaf experiences. The Guidelines addresses spatial arrangements and social proximics, light, acoustics building materials and color to optimize deaf ways-of-being in three major areas:.
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Language and Communication
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Sensory Reach and Wayfinding
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Social Engagement + Cultural Expression