Design Analysis

Design Analysis: Projects, such as renovations, need careful planning especially when they are being placed into a historic establishment. This is the main concern with the handicap accessibility project at hand. Since the project requires handicap accessibility to the first floor of the house, the focus of the group was to change as little as possible to the residence in order to keep the esthetics as they were. The first problem of this project was …

…ramp than needs to be placed on the outside doorway. There is a small step that could give people in a wheelchair a difficult time getting into the house. A small ramp will be constructed to allow easier entry. Another possibility is to pour blacktop over the existing blacktop on the driveway. This could easily produce a ramp suitable for this project, and also it would blend into the surrounding better that any ordinary ramp.