THESIS SYNOPSIS

THESIS TOPICS:
 VISION REHABILITATION
 IT PARK

REG NO : 924015251007
NAME :N.MOUNIAKSHARA
AGNI SCHOOL OF ARCHITECTURE AND DESIGN EXCELLENCE
 VISION REHABILITATION
INTRODUCTION
Visual impairment, also known as vision impairment or vision loss, is a decreased ability
to see to a degree that causes problems not fixable by usual means, such as glasses.
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that 80% of visual impairment is either
preventable or curable with treatment.
As of 2015 there were 940 million people with some degree of vision loss.246 million
had low vision and 39 million were blind.

What Causes Blindness?

Vision problems can develop before a baby is born. Sometimes, parts of the eyes don't
form the way they should. A kid's eyes might look fine, but the brain has trouble
processing the information they send. The optic nerve sends pictures to the brain, so if
the nerve doesn't form correctly, the baby's brain won't receive the messages needed
for sight.
Blindness can be genetic (or inherited), which means that this problem gets passed
down to a kid from parents through genes.

Is Learning Different?
A baby who is blind can still learn and develop normally. But the baby's parents will
need the help of specialists who know how to help blind children. It's often a great idea
for the child to attend special learning programs designed just for little kids who have
trouble seeing. These programs would make the most of the senses that the kid does
have, such as touch, hearing, smell, and taste.
Touch comes in handy when a child is older and wants to read books. Kids who are
visually impaired can learn to read by using a special system called braille. Braille is a
way of expressing letters, words, and thoughts. To read braille, a person feels a series of
little bumps that are associated with letters in the alphabet. For instance, "A" is
represented as one bump. Computer programs and other devices that can "see" turn
the words on a page into braille.
Hearing is another important sense if a kid has vision problems. Some devices can read
out loud what's written on a page. With special equipment, a visually impaired kid can
read almost anything. These kinds of technologies can be helpful in learning. Kids who
are blind might attend a special school, or they might attend regular classes, aided by
special devices and specialists.

AIM
The aim of the project is to study and explore the accessibility of blind and visually
impaired people to public and private spaces.

OBJECTIVE
To create a sense through architectural design in order to enable a visually impaired
person to experience the environment and gain comfort from it. Contribute a
betterment for the blind people through architecture.

SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS :

• India has the largest blind population over the world.
• In India over 15 million(15,000,000)lakhs peoples are disabled people in India.
• Blindness (Seeing )
• Hearing or Deafness
• Movement
• Mental illness
• Speech
• Perception of architecture for blind other sense contributes to enhancement of users.
• To how built a environment can be made more accessible and hospitable buildings.
• The study limited to the public and private buildings and their movements to the site
surroundings

Vision Rehabilitation lessons and training

• Communication skills: reading and writing, braille, and assistive computer
technology
• Counseling: to help you, your spouse, family members, and friends adjust to your
vision loss
• Independent living and personal management skills: home modifications, home
repairs, personal self-care, financial management, recreation and leisure
activities, and using the telephone
• Independent movement and travel skills: moving about safely indoors, using
transportation, and traveling safely outdoors with a long white cane or other
device
• Low vision evaluations and training with low vision devices: the low vision
examination, bioptics for driving, low vision optical devices, and non-optical
devices, such as held magnifiers, special reading glasses, telescopes, and high
intensity lamps that can make the best use of remaining vision
 • Vocational rehabilitation: Getting back to work after a vision loss, or breaking into
the workplace as a job seeker with blindness or low vision, including vocational
evaluation and training, job training, job modification and restructuring, and job
placement.

IDEOLOGY OF DESIGN REQUIREMENTS :

PUBLIC SPACES: NON-PRIVATE SPACES:
• Administration office
• Junior’s closet
• Classrooms ( Blind)
• Storage room
• Common or gathering spaces
• Facility of lounge
• Mock apartment or hostel ( student and facility )
• Library
• Meeting and Conference room
• Restrooms
• Student lounge
• Vestibule
• Cafeteria/kitchen

DESIGN CONSIDERATION
Tactile Marking
Barrier free design
Innovative Structural System (Column free Design)
Spatial organization
Lighting Design
Safety & Security
Circulation Fluidity
Materials Study (with different Textures)

SITE FOR THESIS PROJECT:

• COIMBATORE-TAMILNADU
• MADURAI-TAMILNADU

SITE JUSTIFICATION:
• The Institutions are available only in Chennai and in north India but
in India, Tamilnadu has the more number of disabled female ratio than any other
state so, the site I have chosen is major connection city in tamilnadu. Thus it will
be useful and helpful for the disabled to get educated
• INFERENCE:
• • The principles of architecture design that so govern our outlook towards design
and planning changes the moment we close our eyes to them.Form,scaleand
mass become more object of irrelevance.
• To increase the contribution of other senses from 15% to the maximum we can
achieve through design.

LIVE CASESTUDY:
• Saint louis institute for deaf and blind people, No-25,Canal bank road, near old cancer
hospital,Gandhi nagar, Adyar,Chennai,Tamilnadu-600020
• The blind relief association Lal bahadur shastri marg, near the oberoihotel, Newdelhi
, Delhi-110003
• National association for the blind King george v memorial infirmary,anandnikethan
Near famous cine studio.Mumbai , Maharastra
LITREATURE STUDY
• Name of the project : Hazelwood school Hazelwood school , scotland 50 , dumbreckct
, United kingdom.
• Children’s center for psychiatric rehabilitation center. Hokkaido Japan.

BIBLIOGRAPHY
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/india/India-has-largest-
blindpopulation/articleshow/2447603.cms
GLOBAL DATA ON VISUAL IMPAIRMENTS 2010 (PDF). WHO. 2012. p. 6. Archived (PDF)
from the original on 2015-03-31.
http://www.brailleinstitute.org/library.html
https://www.ifla.org/publications/guidelines-for-library-service-to-braille-users
http://cpwd.gov.in/Publication/aged&disabled.PDF
 IT PARK
INTRODUCTION
The ultimate objective of a technology park is to provide an environment that
will enable the localization of various tech-related companies. It is a development that
brings together office spaces, residential areas, and retail developments in order to
enhance the operations of tech corporations, thereby providing various benefits and
economies of scale to each individual business entity.

AIM
 To design a structurally sound office building which portray power and
innovations as well as balance with economic efficiency and sustainable design
 Achieving significant sustainability by the use of passive design elements

OBJECTIVE
 Design of flexible and technologically –advanced working environment that are
safe,healthy,comfortable ,durable ,aesthetical-pleasing and accessible
 Integrating the design principle of structure ,architecture and façade .these are the
3 main aspect of the building design that can help achieve efficiency in construction
and cost through optimizing the three variables and achieving a balance .
 Use of permanent ,durable and local materials such as sand stone on exterior face
,low heat transmission glass ,reflective roofing

SCOPE AND LIMITATIONS :

 Campus style building ,with the opportunity for enhanced vertical and
horizontal connectivity that promotes knowledge transfer
,communication collaboration and productivity
 Campus planning ,interior design ,landscape
 To providing interaction space –indoor and outdoor
IDEOLOGY OF DESIGN REQUIREMENTS :
 Offices :may be private or visually
 Conference room
 Lobby
 Atria or common space
 Cafeteria or dinning hall
 Private toilet and restroom
 Physical fitness area
 Interior or surface parking areas

DESIGN CONSIDERATION :
 Cost –effective
 Functional /operational
 Flexibility
 Productive
 Secure /safe
 Technical connectivity
 Sustainable
SITE FOR THESIS PROJECT:
Electronics City, Bengaluru
(Infosys plans massive expansion of operations in Bengaluru)

LIVE CASESTUDY:
 Olympia tech park ,Chennai
 T.C.S ,IT park ,lucknow
LITREATURE STUDY:
 sasol offices building Africa

BIBLIOGRAPHY
https://economictimes.indiatimes.com/tech/ites/infosys-plans-
massive-expansion-of-operations-in-bengaluru-to-spend-rs-2000-
crore/articleshow/47182687.cms?utm_source=whatsapp_pwa&utm_
medium=social&utm_campaign=socialsharebuttons&from=mdr