The role of The AEC Associates Architectural CAD Drafting services is not limited to just producing buildings and amenities for the community. A large portion of our society find it hard to negotiate the facilities provided at large in our cities and in our buildings. The disabled people, the senior citizens, sick and the young children often face life-threatening hazards while negotiating the roads, buildings and other spaces even in a modern, planned city; it’s the moral and social obligation of Architectural CAD drafting to ensure that they can live and work without any health hazards or risk to their lives. Let us discuss here how can the designers ensure the safety and convenience of this important section of the society.
Design considerations:
When we talk about our immediate environment, we can divide the overall design scenario into essentially three segments. Architectural CAD drafting must have design parameters for these three segments to make sure that every citizen is able to lead a hazard-free, normal life.
- The roads:
Negotiating the roads in the cities today with so much traffic is nothing short of a miracle even for perfectly healthy and normal people. Now spare a moment for those who have some sort of a disability or have been affected by their growing age or some sickness. Crossing the road would be nearly impossible for them without an aid from the designers. It’s necessary to provide a devise to stop the traffic when these people cross the road. Such devices are available, we only have to install them at every crossing and make sure that people follow the rules.
Similarly, providing safe pedestrian paths and other such amenities is essential to make roads safe for these people.
- Entrance and interior of a building:
When the designers conceptualize a building, especially a large public or private building, they tend to overlook some basic fundamentals that could prove dangerous for the above mentioned people. If they don’t provide steps with handrails and ramps with proper slopes, it gets difficult for these people to even enter the building without risking their wellbeing. Glass doors often cause confusions and even thwart the wheelchair bound people to go through without lot of trouble. The inside staircases or elevators also present many obstacles for the disabled and the aged people. Architectural CAD drafting services must consider every aspect to make these usable for these people.
We shall continue this discussion in our next post to see how the designers can make life a lot easier for a part of the society that needs just a little help from our side to lead a perfectly normal life.
