車椅子生活移動の観点からの新築住宅における生涯住宅対応性の現状

Abstract

The objectives of this paper are clarifying actual features of the orientation to lifetime homes in newly built residences in Japan. Wheel chair movements possibility around rooms and the fundamental facilities such as toilets, bathrooms, washing basins and kitchens, is specially investigated. As a result, the features of orientation to lifetime homes, that is corridors width, door openings and their relations, are clarified to be far away from the reasonable states. Furthermore, the following items are clarified as a direction for improvements; 1) Most numbers of investigated residences are not proper from the viewpoints of sustaining self supporting lives by using a wheel chair. 2) Difficulty of wheel chair movements is proved in the turn of toilets, bathrooms, washing basins and kitchens. 3) Enlargement in door openings and corridors by more than thirty centimeters is generally an actual resolution for realizing self supporting wheel chair lives in an averaged value.