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Sunday, October 16, 2011

Necessary-021-room-room

Necessary #021. Room Room
10/12/2011

Architectural barriers are not a problem only for the movement-impaired. Walls inside a house, for example, make it impossible for deaf people to see someone else in an another room, thus completely blocking all sign communication. Japanese architect Takeshi Hosaka a tried to offer a solution to this problem with his Room Room house, a home for a family in which the two parents are deaf. The architect furnished the house with openings in the walls (in the shape of fine squared niches) that allow all the members of the family never to lose eye – and ear – contact of one another. (via Dezeen)