| TH21 To Boldly Go Where Everybody Else Has Gone: Access in New Houses HSW 05/15/2008, 2:00 PM - 3:30 PM Learning Units: 1.50-Entry level Training Units: 0.375-Training Area 6 (Code Research) Basic home access (visitablility) is a strategy to provide affordable, sustainable, and accessible design for many new homes. Key architectural components, the movement's history and status in the United States and Europe, common misconceptions, and case studies will be discussed. Best practices in design, construction details, cost data for incorporating the features, and costs of omitting them will be detailed. The relation of home access to sustainability as recently recognized by LEED-ND will be highlighted. Learning Objectives:
Providers: AIA Committee on the Environment; AIA Housing and Custom Residential; Arizona State University; Concrete Change; IDEA Center, University of Buffalo-SUNY; and Stardust Center for Affordable Homes and the Family TH21 Thursday, 2-3:30 p.m. |