Prospects for Multi-Storey Buildings with Individual Parking Lots in Front of Apartment Entrances (for Low-Mobility Groups of the Population)
Year: 2024
Type: article
Abstract: Creating a barrier-free environment that takes into account the needs of the low-mobility part of the population is a constant task in various areas of personal and public life organization. The emergence of mandatory design and construction standards has ensured significant progress in this area. The demand for a barrier-free environment in apartments where families without disabilities live is constantly growing. A barrier-free environment becomes a criterion for the convenience of living in general. The inclusive design that ensures this quality of the home offers various solutions. One of the unresolved problems so far is the possibility of wheelchair users living on different floors of multi-storey buildings. This is due to the difficulty of their evacuation in case of emergency shutdown of elevators. An option to solve the problem is the installation of car ramps and apartment parking lots. These ramps, under normal conditions, provide highly comfortable automobile delivery of a representative of low-mobility groups of the population directly to the apartment doors. In the event of an accident, these ramps can be used freely, without creating a queue, to ensure the descent of an accompanied disabled person or a bedridden patient on special stretchers from any floor of an apartment building.
Institution: Satbayev University
Language: English
Subfield: Occupational Therapy
Field: Health Professions
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W4405083243