Disability Rights and Resources

A facility providing independent living services for people with disabilities

The building is designed as a model for universal design, sustainability and the national disability rights movement.

The new office building includes offices, classrooms, conference room, library, consultation rooms, quiet room and teaching kitchen and was designed as a model for universal design, sustainability and the national disability rights movement.

Universal design features include: flush surface transitions from outdoor parking and sidewalk zones to the building’s interior, deliberate changes in paving surface texture as tactile aids to blind pedestrians and the use of vibrant color canopies as directional cues to the central lobby.