Accessibility is becoming an
important part of more and more
building projects. Disability ultimately
affects every family and most
individuals; we are all eventually
subject to illness, accident, and
aging. In an important sense, accessibility
is for everybody.
As a designer and builder, I have
included accessibility in everything
I've designed in the last few years.
When it isn't practical to make a
place accessible at the time of construction,
I try to make it easy to
adapt later.
People often expect accessibility
to be expensive, difficult to build,
and institutional looking. And
indeed this is often the case when
buildings are poorly adapted after
the fact. But when it's emphasized
from the start, accessibility can be
simple and affordable without calling
attention