‘If you can’t get into the building, you can’t use the building’, says new study’s author
The earliest portion of Osgoode Hall, opened in 1832 as the headquarters for the Law Society of Upper Canada, is an elegant, imposing, architectural delight. Designed by John Ewart , the highly symmetrical palladian/neoclassical building at Queen Street West and University Avenue was declared a National Historic Site in 1979.
Daniel Luong and Jesse Klimitz, from the architectural and design firm BDP Quadrangle’s accessibility practice, Human Space, recently included Osgoode Hall in Heritage for All, a 220-page research study for Accessibility Standards Canada that took three years to complete. The document, say the authors, is meant to identify “current barriers to accessing federal heritage buildings” in order to present “a set of recommendations and design solutions appropriate in heritage contexts.
Not all heritage buildings enjoy that amount of space. Postal Station A in Saint John sits directly on the sidewalk and both entrance doors were five steps up. The solution? Drop one of the doors to street-level and add a heritage-style transom above it in order to preserve the look of the original façade as much as possible. The report, however, suggested that the interior has become a “somewhat complex configuration of ramps and stairs.”Dave LeBlanc: Heritage and accessibility.
The team, which also included accessibility auditor Michael Philpott, the KITE Research Institute , heritage specialist Philip Goldsmith, Easter Seals and the Canadian Disability Foundation conducted online surveys, workshops, site visits and did a peer review to complete the study.
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