Housing, neurosciencie and diversity. Breathing health (English eBook)

What can you find in this book?

Housing as architecture has been extensively studied, encompassing structural, economic and technical factors, as well as original design solutions. This book incorporates the sensibilities, needs, and variables of neurodiversity, opening our eyes and broadening our horizons, enriching architecture by focusing on people’s quality of life.

Designing housing for users with diversity and multiple disabilities includes specific and particular characteristics of neuroscience, architecture and design, facilities, materials, and specific conditions for a variety of neurodiversity cases that are not commonly found compiled in a single text: physical, sensory and intellectual disabilities, autism, the elderly, neurological and rare diseases.

Contributors: Noemí Castell, Claudio Doratto, Bernardo Jordano de la Torre, Liliana Liberman and Fundación OXIRIA.

Author: An architect and urban planner, she holds a Master’s degree in Accessibility and Design for All. A university lecturer on urban planning, historic centers and cognitive and sensory integration accessibility, she has published extensively on urban planning, historic centers and accessibility. She speaks at national and international conferences, researches, creates and disseminates the model for designing accessible spaces (cognitive spectrum and sensory integration) she uses in recent years, incorporating people with intellectual disabilities into the diagnosis and evaluation of environments and buildings.