Desenvolvimento sustentável e acessibilidade: mapa tátil arquitetônico

Abstract

Sustainable development is a concept which seeks harmony between three pillars: economics, social and environmental. Accessibility must be taken as part of those pillars. In the economic pillar, accessibility leads to larger access and therefore larger economic circulation. Besides that, a larger number of individuals having access to certain building allows a bigger inclusion and comprehension of the cultural patrimony, which is also integrated to the social pillar. The development of resources and services which can help for better accessibility for blind people allows proper orientation and mobility in architectural buildings. One of such resources is the tactile map. Tactile maps arise as an important helping technology, improving visual functions as they translate information from visual to tactile. This article has the objective of outlining the relations between accessibility and sustainability, focusing in the discussion about tactile cartography and mapping uniformity. The text organizes itself in three chapters which elaborate about accessibility englobing cultural, economics and social aspects of sustainable development and then investigates the demands and patterns of tactile cartography and mapping from the perspective of the legal propositions of the Federal Decree 5.296 and the standard Nbr 9050:2015, so it can finally propose a prototype tactile map of the Architecture and Urbanism Faculty, located in the Central Sciences Institute, part of Universidade de Brasília, aiming to facilitate access, mobility and orientation for blind and low vision people.