The Autism Friendly University Design Guide

PART TWO - RESULTS

Informal/social spaces 1

GSR: New student residence design The new design allows for customisation by adapting neutral colors and not committing to anything visually in terms of signage..etc

The new design of the common spaces includes a sensory garden, courtyards and breakout spaces. The ability to customise bedrooms to incorporate different sensory and storage solutions. Storage that allows people to see their things, homes for collections.

Residences Car Park

Hard to keep the room warm.

Lacks directionality in the long tiled corridore, could be chaotic sometimes.

Running Track Delivery 1

Soccer Centre

Changing rooms are spacious, and have individual stalls if someone needs more privacy.

The Mall

John & Aileen O'Reily Library

Delivery 2

M B

Lonsdale Building

S B

Invent Building NICB Building

Exwell NRF

34 Magda Mostafa, PhD Autism Design Consultant Progressive Architects

Healthy Living Centre

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The Autism Friendly University Design Guide

Published on May 9, 2021

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Initiated by Dublin City University's Autism Friendly University initiative, this guide is founded on a basic foundational understanding that all students in higher education campuses have the equal right to a built environment that not only does not create barriers to their physical access to an education, but provides, whenever and wherever possible, built environment supports that facilitate their access to the learning experience. Many of the guidelines included here can be scaled up and across multiple contexts and typologies, including but not limited to- K-12 learning environments, workplace environments, urban contexts, public spaces, commercial spaces and residential neighbourhoods. Preliminary research and community anecdote also supports that these design strategies benefit not only autism and neurodiversity, but other user groups with diverse needs.

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