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  title info:
    title: Human development and capabilities as criteria for better functioning architecture
  name:
    name part: Warmington, Rodney Mervyn.
    role:
      role term: creator
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: txu
    date issued: 1977
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: xii, 68 leaves : plans ; 28 cm.
  abstract: This report investigates the basic requirements, and indicates the progressive developments which attempt to (a) create a set of criteria, and (b) establish a basic building system for a form of better functioning architecture specifically in relation to physical access and physical use of a building. The long term objective of this research programme is a building system. It is proposed to develop this system to be adaptable and adjustable to complement (a) an architectural setting's activities, and (b) the physical capabilities of a setting's user(s) respectively. The goal of this professional report is the derivation of a set of criteria which will allow for physical performance by a larger proportion of people than the present criteria. The proposed criteria will be sufficient and necessary for the physical requirements of people aged seven to seventy, and with a wide range of physical ability. People have a general need for easy physical access to and use of buildings and their environs. The satisfaction of this need should be (a) as independent as possible of physical ability, and (b) completed with convenience, independence, safety, and dignity. To satisfy these requirements, it is considered necessary to reduce the complexity of the interface between man and the architectural settings. This reduction is achieved by minimizing the quality and the quantity of the levels in physical mobility and physical dexterity which are sufficient and necessary for physical performances in the physiosocial environment. The data for these criteria were synthesized from research in the fields of (a) architecture, (b) human factors, (c) psychology, (d) sociology, and (e) rehabilitation medicine. The architectural investigation addresses the present methodologies being applied to building design. It was found that the interface between man and architectural settings is potentially very difficult for people to cope with particularly when encumbered. The human factor analysis ind…
  note: by Rodney Mervyn Warmington.
  note: Vita.
  note: "Major subject: Architecture."
  note: Texas A&M University.
  note: Bibliography: leaves 56-59.
  subject:
    topic: Human engineering
  subject:
    topic: Barrier-free design
  subject:
    topic: Major architecture
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    record content source: TXA
    record creation date: 770923
    record change date: 20190325091504.0
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