A fine arts laboratory for the blind and visually impaired : an architectural thesis exploring the communication of meaning through total sensory perception

The following project is the result of a nine month study dealing with the communication of architectural meaning through active involvement of all the senses. The argument dealt with concerns itself with confusion and alienation caused by architecture which conveys its meaning only through the sense of sight, thereby being two dimensional and non-experiential.The project, a Fine Arts Laboratory for the Blind and Visually Impaired, Indianapolis, Indiana, uses the blind and visually impaired segment of society as the approach to investigating the communication of architectural meaning through the linking of sensory clues to elements used in the understanding of spatial sequence, such as path, node, and landmark.College of Architecture and PlanningThesis (B. Arch.