Development Patterns of Universal Design in Residential Courtyards in the Jugla Neighbourhood

Una Ile; Lelde Bergmane

doi:10.22616/j.landarchart.2023.22.11

Authors

Una Ile Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies
Lelde Bergmane Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.22616/j.landarchart.2023.22.11

Keywords:

universal design, courtyards, neighbourhood, urban environment

Abstract

Quality and accessible outdoor living space in the immediate vicinity of one's home is an important factor in ensuring people's well-being, safety and community belonging. Access to building entrances is one of the key conditions for people to be able to reach the outdoors and enjoy equal mobility opportunities. Thus, one of the important challenges in achieving the principles and objectives of universal design on a small scale is related to building entrance areas. The building regulations at the time when most of Riga's large-scale residential areas were built did not include requirements for environmental accessibility solutions. Most of the entrance areas of residential buildings and adjacent areas were constructed according to the construction practices of the time, using concrete steps to connect the carriageway level with the staircase doors. The study therefore includes conceptual solutions for environmental accessibility in building entrance areas - existing locations with specific environmental characteristics that would be applicable to as many building entrances as possible, regardless of the location of the buildings.

Author Biographies

Una Ile, Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies

Dr. arch.She is an Associate Professor at the Department of Landscape Architecture and Planning of Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies. She has published more than 10 scientific articles on the quality and development trends of multi-storey building blocks. In 2021, she graduated from Riga Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, with an architect qualification. She is a practicing architect and landscape architect and has implemented projects for the public and private sectors.

Lelde Bergmane, Latvia University of Life Sciences and Technologies

Mg. arch. Landscape architect, 7 Prieduļu Street, Garupe, Carnikava parish, Ādaži district, LV-2163.

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