During the visit to Bhopal for NSDC 2012, Universal design elective students visited ARUSHI, a Bhopal-based not-for-profit organization working with and for people with disabilities and issues related to them. The basic objective of their work is to generate opportunities and develop capacities in people with disabilities.
Run by a passionate social activist- Mr. Anil Mudgal, the architecture of the center has been very thoughtfully designed keeping in mind universal design parameters.
The vertical circulation within the building is through a nicely designed ramp and lift.The layout is very student friendly with colours used to distinguish levels and planes. The students also got to see use of tactile flooring in the indoors, appropriately designed railings, tactile maps and accessible toilets at the center. The staff working at the center being differently abled, even the furniture like the reception desk was designed such that a wheel chair user could work on it with ease.
The center is probably one of the very few buildings in the country that can claim to be fairly accessible to people with disabilities, and students were benefitted by the visit as they could see all the theoretical recommendations of barrier free design applied in a building.
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