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architectureofhearingderekwendt

universityofdetroitmercyschoolofarchitecture

professorkarenswanson

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octobereighth,twothousandten


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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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