Designing Deaf Schools

Designing Deaf Schools

Coolen, Julia (TU Delft Architecture and the Built Environment)

de Wit, L.M.M. (mentor)
van de Voort, J.A. (graduation committee)
van Dorst, M.J. (graduation committee)

Delft University of Technology

Architecture, Urbanism and Building Sciences | Explorelab

2023-01-19

The deaf and hard-of-hearing live in world that, from an architectural standpoint, is designed for hearing people. Which causes a set of challenges for the deaf and hard-of-hearing.These problems have major effects at schools for the deaf and hard-of-hearing. These schools are mainly located in buildings that happened to be empty or that already had an educational function anyway. These buildings have never been specifically designed for the deaf and hard-of-hearing, which causes a problem. If a school for deaf and hard-of-hearing students was never designed for them, how can these buildings reflect and be good for them?

deaf
school buildings
Pattern Language

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Student theses

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