Architecture for autism spectrum disorder
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2020
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UMT, Lahore
Abstract
Autism spectrum disorder (ASD) is a wide range of conditions classified as neurodevelopmental disorders. The spectrum includes Asperger syndrome, Atypical Autism or Pervasive Developmental Disorder not otherwise specified (PDD-NOS), Childhood Disintegrative Disorder, and Autism Syndrome. These disorders on the spectrum starting from less severe to more severe. If we look at the community that we live in, we see that people with such disorders are easily neglected and does not given the second thought before pronouncing them ‘unable to perform’ for the rest of their lives. These children either live their lives as a burden or in some cases they are sent to agencies such as EDHI or CHIPA so their burden is not to be bore by the family that brought them to life.
The government is not working of any undertaking which helps these children cope with their weaknesses and face the society in an effortless way there are some non-public trusts that are working for the betterment of this issue but they are on a small scale and do not cater the massive wide variety of these children. Some private resource center is also there for treatment and training of these children however they are very steeply-priced and take it as a business and parents couldn’t afford it. A social issue such as this has to be given an attention so we can construct a higher community, where we all stand as a one human race and forget about the differences between us. Proposing a perfect complex building as a supportive environment can help children on autism spectrum for their intervention.
Proceeding with the approach of overwrought thinking can help developing a school environment which is unique from already built examples because the predominant center of attention is that why do we need a special school building. A learning complex for children on spectrum helps them to handle their day by day existence challenges which they face due to their disability and provide them possibility how to cope with these challenges. Learning center, the school building in the complex is a self-contained section of the classroom within which students engage in independent and self-reliant learning activities. Transitional stages in the design are the most important focal point. An appropriate sensory design would have its transitional stages where a child would enter into the system on his terms of being comfortable and leave on the world’s terms of what is comfortable.