Purposeful Architecture Purposeful Architecture

Purposeful Architecture addresses the dynamic challenges that a person with a disability must face on a daily basis. Driving architectural design is the belief that individuals with disabilities can l ... earn. While an individual’s disability is realistically accepted, those limitations shouldn’t be allowed to get in the way of each individual’s progress towards personal independence. Purposeful Architecture is about finding individual-centered solutions that allow people with special needs to feel safe and motivated to engage in a learning and living environment that belongs to them. Purposeful Architecture™ identifies opportunities throughout the design and building process — at the initial steps of planning, during the assembling of the defined spaces, to the selection of interior and exterior materials — to create buildings that support individuals with special needs at the highest level of independence, that elevate their self-esteem and that continuously reinforce learning, growing, life and vocational skills to ultimate self-sufficiency as defined by their abilities. Read more

• Architecture & Planning