PHILADELPHIA
The Olin Studio in Philadelphia has
redesigned a number of landmark public spaces to increase universal design
elements.
Firm founder Laurie Olin’s redesign of the Independence National
Historic Park at Independence Hall features walkways so gently sloped that
there are no ramps per se.
“Olin’s design philosophy is to
integrate universal design concepts such as resilience and sustainability into
all our projects, whether historic landscapes or brand new and contemporary
places, from the very inception of their design.
We do not design spaces and
then go back and figure out how to make them accessible,” says Dennis C.
McGlade, president and partner at Olin.
Olin’s landscape design for the
security retrofit of the grounds of the Washington Monument in Washington,
D.C., made all the paths to the base of the monument accessible — all slopes
under 5 percent — while at the same time thwarting terrorists with design
elements that prevent them from driving up to the base of the monument.
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