orientation: creating
an accessible
environment
salome francpourmoi
mio uchida
rachel gealy
marissa grace desmond
mass. ave
mass. ave
•disorientation
•discomfort
•confusion
•glaring
•linear
•dirty
•harsh
•loud
orientation
• orientation is a function of the
mind involving awareness of three
dimensions: time, place and person
• problems with orientation lead to
disorientation, and can be due to
various conditions, from delirium to
intoxication
• typically, disorientation is first
in time, then in place and finally
in person
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Where do you go for eating?
Where do you go for supplies?
What do you need?(literally)
What are your favorite colors/color combinations?
Where were you born? (town, state, country)
What are the things that you crave for that are lacking
here;
o in this new life as architecture student
o At or around MIT
o In Cambridge
What are your favorite things? (abstract or concrete,
animal, vegetal or
mineral, food, film, book, anything)
Where would you like to be right now?
What is your favorite place?
What do you call home?
Any thing/ direction you’d like your sign to point to?