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LEADING EXAMPLES
 

Background

A desk-top search in 2016 identified a limited number of leading ‘contemporary’ housing projects for people with cognitive and/or physical disability where the designers/clients claim to have a vision or philosophy that is person-centred – beyond the requirements of design for accessibility and mobility to meet universal design requirements.

 

Each project presented below captures:

  • the underlying person-centred principles/approaches incorporated in the project,

  • how the particular as-built housing design features (supporting the vision or philosophy) address the emotional feelings or well-being of people with a disability, and

  • post-occupancy comments related to the project.

 

It is noteworthy that in-depth post-occupancy evaluations of the projects do not seem to have been carried out.

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North London Hospice, London, U.K.

Greenwich Housing

Courtyard Housing, Barking, London

Slagelse Psychiatric Hospital

Sweetwater Spectrum Community

The Ramp House Chambers 

Wounded Warrior House

Windmill Court, Chingford Extra

The Rings

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