1. OUTLINE
Humane living environment: accessibility and equal opportunities for all
 INTRODUCTION
 OVERVIEW OF PROBLEMS
 KEY CONCEPTS
 UNIVERSAL DESIGN
 OVERAL SOLUTIONS

2. PROBLEMS & SOLUTIONS
 We found some limitations in the University
 CAMPUS
 LIBRARY
 LECTURE HALL
 CAFETERIA
 PARKING AREA

3. Who is a disabled person: The Adapted Model
 How to model the individuals for whom we design?

4. To what extend the Seven Principles of Universal
Design been implemented in APU campus?
Principle Evidence found
Principle 1: Equitable Use No
Principle 2: Flexibility in Use May be
Principle 3: Simple and Intuitive Use Yes
Principle 4: Perceptible Information No
Principle 5: Tolerance for error Yes
Principle 6: Low Physical Effort Yes
Principle 7: Size and space for approach No
and use

5. How well-designed is the campus to encourage
the following?
Design for Inclusion: the four cornerstones
Simulation Flexibility Independence Social Interaction
Both physical and To accommodate Through choice Through family,
cognitive- changes brought and content- friends,
Average about by the Average neighborhoods
ageing process- and the wider
Not Good communities-
Good
Keeps mind and Adapts to Reduces barriers Enables social
body healthy- different users and maintains engagement and
Good and uses-Less control-Average participation-
than Average Limited
Promote feeling of Responds to age- Prevents or delays Promotes sense of
well-being-Good related change- dependency-No identity as full
Not Good comments member of
society-Good

6. How well universally designed is the
campus?
 Predominantly designed for young and middle-
aged fit people.

7. Difficulties for entrance for the CAMPUS
How
can I
get in?!

8. Explicitly provided of automatic sensor door

9. After the first barrier in the Classroom

10. UNIVERSAL SOLUTION from (Honda's
Walking Assist Device 'Turns Me On‘)

11. Visual nature of the problem
Let’s go
down
I can’t
see what
Prof.
writes

13. Provide of comfort class with where they can feel
better

14. LIBRARY

15. PARKING PLACE IN APU

16. Ways of solving these problems
with a flick of
by hand

17. Explicitly provided slope

18. Facility in the social transport

19. Buttons of elevator

20. Buttons of elevator

21. Doors without threshold that are wide enough for a
Wheel chair or walker, wider hallways @ SD

23. Benefits
 APU promotes the establishment of the foundations
of a society in which more people will feel
comfortable.
 There are some deeper-seated factors within values
of Japanese society that may help successfully
mobilize and exploit APU’s distinctive approach .
 To be the leader among Japanese Universities, APU
possesses the economic and financial rationale for
sustainable development and bring reputation in
home and abroad.

24. Benefits
 APU is an international university that offers an innovative
bi-lingual education.
 People from a variety of sectors locally as well as
internationally.
 A home of people from more than a hundred of countries
and regions.
 Cutting edge facilities to confirm proper learning
environment.
 APU has tremendous potential to grow by inviting and
promoting people from other groups.
 Disabled people especially who are young is such a sector.
 Necessarily APU will uptake Universal Design philosophy to
identify the significant market opportunities from rapidly
changing needs and learning aspirations of the selected
attendances.

27. COLD-HEARTED WARM-HEARTED
DISTANT  CLOSE

28. HEARTFUL BUILDING