Environmental design of houses for people with autism

2014 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 24760491
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Town planning/Architectural planning
• Research Institution: Osaka University
• Principal Investigator: MATSUBARA Shigeki 大阪大学, 工学(系)研究科(研究院), 准教授 (10399248)
• Project Period (FY): 2012-04-01 – 2015-03-31
• Keywords: 自閉症 / 住環境

Outline of Final Research Achievements

The researches about environmental design of houses for people with autism are questionnaires to their families, interviews to their families and the surveys in the group home for autism. Attentions to planning of houses for people with autism are fellows. 1) to set the transition area 2) to control stimulus by seeing 3) to set the monopoly of the part of common space 4) to sent the space to calm down 5) to correspond one person, one place and one behavior (including private room) 6) to set their own traffic line and not sharing 7) to separate their place from the places of the generated sound.

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