Interior Architectural Design (International) Master Degree

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    An Investigation On Life Center Unit's Design Criteria In Inclusive Education Environments: A Case Study On Serçev Accessible Vocational High School
    (Institute of Social Sciences, 2017) Gülbahar, Simge ; Cordan, Özge ; 469100 ; Interior Architectural Design (International) ; İç Mimari Tasarımı (Uluslararası)
    In Turkey, disabled people’s interaction with their physical environment poses many difficulties for their daily lives. For those with special needs, social integration to society should be encouraged from early ages. Increasing the level of communication and creating an inclusive environment would boost disabled people’s self-confidence and help them realize their true potential. In this context, the existence of an accessible environment is highly important for the disabled in terms of increasing their interaction with the society. Accessibility in design is an approach not only embodying spatial and environmental solutions, but also promising a fair society. In this sense, access to educational facilities brings about a problem for children with special educational needs. Disability should be discussed in different context to help promote accessibility in educational environments accommodating broad and distinctive participants. Universal design, which is cultivated by existence of many other terms bringing affluence in literature for both accessibility and usability such as design for all, inclusive design, barrier free design, transgenerational design, stands on a unique position in discussion concerning the design requirements of educational environment to promote equality. In this sense, inclusive education environment should be provided through universal design principles to provide spatial equality for individuals as much as possible. Students with special educational needs can have strong relationship with their environment thanks to the increase in the efficiency and adequacy in their educational environments with a social-rehabilitation purpose. In addition, support spaces have a significant position in inclusive education environment in terms of rehabilitating and teaching fundamental life skills to students with special educational needs. Life center unit is an enterprise in Ankara Gökkuşağı Primary Schools, having a similar purpose. For this reason, some interviews and investigations were made in Ankara Gökkuşağı Primary School, which demonstrated once again the necessity of support spaces in inclusive schools open for all –including students with special educational needs- to teach them fundamental skills. Life center unit is a place where students can gain empathy and social sensibility beyond regular education and socialize. Related to this topic, the idea of accommodating diverse physical abilities in same educational environment leads to raise the accessibility and usability concerns in inclusive education environment. Social integration, one of the purpose of inclusive education environment, is only possible with support spaces to rehabilitate the abilities of students with SEN. This foresees the need of design criteria for life center unit to define spatial requirements comprehensively. According to reviews on universal design and inclusive education, assessments are made to identify life center unit in terms of user type, type of use, period of use and spatial requirements. In this research, universal design is utilized to solve spatial problems in life center units, both technically and theoretically, to put forward a design approach for future. A design guideline is prepared for further implementation of life center unit in addition to the development of a design project for life center unit of SERÇEV Accessible Vocational High School. In this context, this thesis study, which focuses on “life center unit’s design criteria in inclusive education environment”, is comprised of six chapters: In the first chapter, definition of the problem, scope of the thesis and methodologies used in the thesis are introduced. In the second chapter, the idea of accessibility and usability are examined with references to the literature. Terms related to the idea of accessibility and usability, are introduced in order to provide further knowledge before in depth analysis of what universal design embodies. Following the definition of the terms, universal design is discussed in terms of its conceptual framework. Disability is analyzed in the context of universal design. In the third chapter, inclusive education is introduced within the concept of special educational needs with focus on both its evolution and purposes. Inclusive education environment is also explained in terms of environmental requirements. In the fourth chapter, existing life center unit in Gökkuşağı Primary School is analyzed in terms of accessibility and usability. Further expectations from life center units are introduced with the help of the interviews conducted to identify the design approaches on life center unit. In the fifth chapter, primitive design decisions on life center units are put forward with conceptual understanding of the project of life center unit in SERÇEV Accessible High School. In the sixth chapter, concurrence between universal design and inclusive education will be discussed in order to take design decisions for inclusive education environments. Conclusion and recommendation are given for further implementations of life center units in order to raise awareness on equality and non-discrimination within an inclusive education environment.