Living with autism spectrum disorders; a study on group accommodations for people with ASD
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Examensarbete för masterexamen
Master's Thesis
Master's Thesis
Program
Architecture and urban design (MPARC), MSc
Publicerad
2024
Författare
Carlsson, Myrra
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Sammanfattning
Karlskrona municipality has a goal to build one new
group accommodation every year, but they often
see a problem with the a lack of knowledge among
architects about how physical environments meets
the needs of people with intellectual disabilities. This
Master thesis provide suggestions on how they could
develop their brief for LSS group accommodations,
that will be used as a guide for architects designing
new group accommodations within the municipality.
Based on literature studies, interviews and study visits
at two different group accommodations in Karlskrona
municipality, this thesis has developed suggested
changes to the brief. Research was done on how
the brief can be updated to increase the architect’s
understanding of the subject, including knowledge
of how to promote autonomy and social life among
people with ASD living in group accommodations. The
results and the new brief was tried out in the design of
a group accommodation in Bastasjö, Karlskrona.
Research shows that a person feels safer if there are
possible escape routes and escape spaces to retreat
to in case of sensory overload. Two of the analysed
briefs suggested to avoid dead ends, but none of the
briefs mentioned escape spaces. To make it easier for
the residents to avoid unexpected social interactions
and to be able to escape situations in case of sensory
overload, additions are proposed to Karlskrona’s brief
on possible overviews and escape spaces.
The two main concepts of the design proposal was
to increase the residents autonomy and to improve
the residents possibilities for a social life. These
were solved by design strategies such as dividing
rooms according to function and the amount of
sensory stimuli, connect the design to surrounding
environment, design to increase the feeling of a home
and providing overviews of the common areas, escape
routes and escape spaces to give the residents a
choice which social interactions they would want to
participate in or not.
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Autism spectrum disorder, Group accommodations