Have the Australian Standards become a design Crutch? It's of great concern to us to see architects leaning on building codes and standards as architectural templates instead of their own imagination and creativity. Any decent self respecting species on the planet knows that diversity is the key to survival so what's the evolutionary advantage of standardising design? It didn't work for Mao Zedong or Stalin and there's no evidence that stifling evolution will work for us and there's every reason to motivate our designers to innovate solutions to today's lifestyle problems. When to...
Most access consultants come from building surveying or occupational therapy backgrounds with no construction experience and poor understanding of architectural design and practice. There’s simply too much risk. Architects need security from complaints, that's why it's important to search for an access consultant that's right for the project. Our clients are acutely aware that their obligations to the DDA stretch beyond building occupancy, long after the building surveyors and occupational therapists have washed up. That's why they search for an access consultant who...