L'accessibilità agli spazi per la terza età: rapporto ambiente-fruitore nelle strategie progettuali Accessibility to Spaces for the Elderly: Environment-user Relationship in Design Strategies

The goal of Environmental Technological Design turns out to be user well-being in everyday living environments. The advent of human-centered and performance-based design approaches has progressively elevated environmental sustainability issues with a view to decarbonizing the most energy intensive sectors. Accessibility becomes central to design, defining an articulated methodological/design framework that meets user needs. The legislation defines accessibility as “the possibility for people with reduced mobility (PMR) or impaired mobility, to reach the building and its individual building and environmental units, to enter it easily and to enjoy spaces and equipment in conditions of adequate safety and autonomy”: increasing the field of common vision, accessibility defines social opportunities and knowledge, seen as a “collective resource” involving social, economic, and environmental aspects. e improvement of the degree of accessibility of a place, good or service should not only be achieved through a process of elimination or removal of obstacles and architectural barriers contemplated by current legislation but also through a process of adduction, aimed at integrating into the environment with equipment and services that it lacks. In this view, the contribution aims to define the key guidelines to provide a methodological framework toward a conscious design, setting as a key focus an example of technological-experimental design in Lunghezza (Rome).