HEALING IN THE DARKNESS EMPOWERMENT THROUGH INFORMAL EDUCATION

Abstract

“We shape our buildings, and afterwards our buildings shape us.” (Winston Churchill) Designing a healing center help blind people make them independent and will feel safe and confident by merging in the urban context. In this report I describe what the blind people are and what design guide lines required to build architecture according to other senses and guidelines. And how historical background considers these senses in their architecture terms, for them vision is not the priority. Decision of making healing center in PUNJAB helps encourage other cities to build this kind of platforms or design on other parts of the city as well. Design based on modularity using elements like open corridors which give them different experience, landmarks to boost up their other senses, water channel as a guiding element and also use of different materials to make them differentiate between the spaces to make it sensory architecture so they interact with each other easily by sensing each and everything happening around them by use of blind guidelines