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See + Listen : a psychological experience of sound
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Born profoundly deaf
Received cochlear implant at age of 8
Attended oral deaf educational program to learn to listen and speak
Mainstreamed from 4th to 12th, with a speech consultant
THESISAPPROACHWith cognitive ability and knowledge in both worlds of architecture
and auditory, I am inspired to improve the urban condition for those
with hearing loss.
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Noise is always there
Time is central to sound... Sound is time
Deaf experiences
- See, touch, feel, and smell are navigational guides
How does a space communicate without sound?
[ Spaces Speak, Are You Listening?]
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[Deaf people ] are rst, last and of all time, people of the eye.
- George Veditz
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Can you detect the sound out of these words?
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ababycryingontheairplane
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Iwentdown,down,down
Andtheameswenthigher..
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abirdchirpinthewoods
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awavecrashesonshore
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waterdripsinaruin
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The memory serves you to detect the sound
Sound is a cultural force
What about those who cant hear?
How would they know it sounds like?
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Deaf vs. Hearing-Impaired
- communication
- lip-reading, gestural and microexpression psychology
- technological advance : hearing impairments
physical environment of sound - remote control- speech
Awareness
With the eyes
(e.g. re alarms and emergency vehicles)
With a touch(e.g. vibrating alarm clock and loudspeaker)
Technology
(e.g. closed-captioning and texting)
Diculties
- stereotypes- communication
- employment
[ YouTube : What a Wonderful World in ASL translation + Bill Clintons I did not... ]
Yo,youre fromEurope??
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If a child was born deaf or lost hearing as toddler
- 2 options for parents : Deaf Culture v. Hearing-Impaired
Special Education
- Schools for the Deaf
- Oral Deaf Programs- Mainstream
- Deaf Universities
- Disability aid oces
Students who lost hearing as adolescent can remain in their schools, but
may seek consultation.
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How many deaf individuals are there in the United States?
[ Statistics were not accurately analyzed and studied in Census ]
Sources estimated 1,520,000 are deaf (0.49% of US Population)
estimated 26,700,000 are hearing-impaired (8.60%)
16% are only 3-34 years of age
59% are 55 years and older
Where are the younger generation?
[ Gallaudet Research Institute ]
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Schools for the Deaf+ Schools with deaf aids
Oral Deaf Programs
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Universities [ Deaf + with Disability Aid Support ]
There are two major universities that fully accomodates deaf and hard-
of-hearing students.
- Gallaudet University - Washington, District of Columbia
- National Technical Institute for the Deaf- Rochester, New York
[ Gallaudet Research Institute ]
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Gallaudet University
Americas only liberal arts college for the deaf
Founded in 1858 - Accredited in 1954
Adjoined K-12 education programs and services
Admissions select to withstand deaf culture
Undergraduates : 1,060 Graduates : 430
[ Gallaudet University , Bing Map + Google Map ]
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National Technical Institute for the Deaf (NTID)
Adjoined with Rochester Institute of Technology (RIT)
Established in 1965
First and largest technical college for the deaf
Only 9.5% of RITs enrollment
Students : 1,520 Cross-registered : 540
[ National Technical Institute for the Deaf , Bing Map + Google Map ]
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Rochester v. Washington
Where do they go after education?
Home or stay within (Deaf)
Move out on own (Hearing-Impaired)
Why do those stay within?
Deaf-Friendly City
Hospitality
Communication
Cooperative society, business and enterprise
Supplemental Security Income (SSI)
Educational workshops and programs
Resources + Amenities
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What are the factors in both communities?
School buildings are traditionally designed
No urban condition designed for the deaf, but the campus itself
Rochester, a sprawl city where driving is necessaryWashington, a vibrant congested city
Deaf individuals do not live proximately
What is missing outside of the two cities?
A community void : deaf individuals are American-born foreigners
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Improve the urban condition for the deaf and hearing-impaired in
which it integrates with the exisiting environment and community
where communication is a factor. Phenomenologically, the urban con-
dition will emerge altogether as detectable, perceptible, and, most im-
portantly, desirable place to live.
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What are the architecture factors in deaf diverse design?
ADA Standards
Accessibility . Functional . Technical . Requirement . Bland . Limited
Architectural acousticsControl the sound waves . Subconscious . Irrelevent embellishment
Visual architecture
[ e.g. Mies van der Rohe + Le Corbusier ]
A hedonistic visual journey . Visual paradigm . One-Dimensional
Aural architecture [ e.g. Hans Scharoun + Yasuhisa Toyota ]
A phenomenal experience of sound . Lackadaisical approach
Sensory architecture
[ e.g. Juhani Pallasmaa + Leven Betts ]
A phenomenal experience of space response . Lackadaisical approach
[Americans with Disabilities Act , Architectural Acoustics , Barbican , Berlins Philharmonic Hall ,Eyes of the Skin , Sensing Architecture , + Spaces Speak]
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By collaborating all the architectural styles aforementioned, how can
they polyphonically unite to improve an urban condition?
Materials
- Physicality
- Navigation- Visuality
- Color codes
- Tactility
Universal Design Principles
[ Transmaterial , Transmaterial 2 + Transmaterial 3 ]
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Deaf Diverse Design Guidelines
[ Dangermond Keane Architecture + Gallaudet University]
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In response to Deaf Diverse Design Guidelines
1.Sorenson Language and Communication Center, Gallaudet University
2.Urban Development for the Deaf, Washington, D.C. [ in process ]
[ Hansel Bauman + Robert Sirvage, Gallaudet University ]
George Balsley, Deaf Architect/Design Consultant
Lori Cappuccio, Designer, SmithGroup
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Laurent, South Dakota : Deaf Town
Proposed community town for the deaf - Marvin T. Miller
320 acres - 158 families declared nationally
Failed . Bankrupted . Economical concerns
Centric . Isolation . Contentious
Integrations a must, not an enclave
[ CharetteCenter , DeafWeekly , New York Times , Bing Map , + Google Map ]
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Serving as vital precedent, the Urban Development will be analyzed and
studied upon visit to Gallaudet.
Furthermore, the proposal of the project is to either design a...
New city / urban environment
OR
Adaptive environment
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The project can consider to
- expand NTID-RITs campus into a gradual city
- extend the Gallaudets Urban Development
- adapt in a city accessible by deaf-populated communities
locally, nationally and globally
[ Google Earth ]
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My desire is to integrate the deaf community with the existing environ-
ment. In architectural scale, I seek to design a human-conscious urban
environment that accomodates the deaf and educates the hearing peo-
ple.
The materiality of the project insists of physical and human-responsivematerials with obligatory design standardss.
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ADeaf Mouse [ goes to the airport ] : a cognizant of small scale naviga-
tional urban development
[Audio : Everything In Its Right Place - Radiohead]
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architectureofhearingderekwendt
universityofdetroitmercy
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professorkarenswanson
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