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Why Buildings for Autistic People Are Better for Everyone Stuart Shell, AIA, WELL AP, LEED BD+C Why Buildings for Autistic People Are Better for Everyone Stuart Shell, AIA, WELL AP, LEED BD+C If people who own, operate and design ASD as a part of natural variation in human buildings are not thinking about people with biology, not requiring a ‘cure’ (Kapp et al., autism, they will be soon. Individuals diagnosed 2013). The DSM-5 lists the primary criteria as with autism spectrum disorder, or ASD have the deficits in social interactions and restricted, same rights to functional, accessible spaces that repetitive behaviors and interests. Sensory the non-ASD world enjoys. Also, with 1 in 68 integration deficits are a second-tier criterion. children diagnosed with autism in 2012 – up Nonetheless, most individuals with ASD do from 1 in 150 in 2000 (Christensen et al., 2016; experience sensory hypersensitivity or See Figure 1) – it is time for the United States to hyposensitivity, especially in hearing and touch expand its idea of accessibility. (Fernández-Andrés et al, 2015). Alarmingly, the prevalence of ASD is around 1 percent of the Unfortunately, creating responsive buildings for population, with more males affected than people with ASD is difficult. Most architects, females. (Mostafa, 2008; Sanchez et al, 2011). engineers, and building owners have limited knowledge of ASD. Its broad range in sensitivity Figure 1: Prevalence of Autism per 1,000* also means that each individual needs different qualities in their surroundings. Even with the “perfect” building design, inhabitants must be empowered to interact with and modify spaces to meet their immediate needs. Taken all together, it is not a surprise that the design world has more progress to make regarding inclusive buildings. But there is also *Data depicts 8-year-olds at 11 ADDM sites in an up-side to the challenge; everyone benefits the United States (Christensen et al., 2016). The range in prevalence rates between the sites is from the features that make a facility autism- shaded. friendly. This article highlights why a focus on occupants with ASD is a powerful approach to Architecture can address the needs of creating great architecture. occupants with ASD. That is because buildings accommodate the needs of their occupants Autism and Buildings through spatial configuration, acoustics, Autism means not feeling relaxed. It appears to lighting, temperature, air quality, furnishings be caused by complicated genetic and and finishes. A common hypothesis in the environmental interactions, and there is no literature is that modulating these features of cure. The evidence of effective interventions is the physical environment can help all occupants limited (Rodger et al, 2010). In fact, many view relax and focus. However, interventions that only address environmental conditions. Some examples of design will be of limited value because the these stimuli are temperature, light contrast, air physical environment is intertwined with the quality, echo, and air speed. Occupants social environment (Sanchez et al, 2011). For experience pleasure as a result of changes that example, a study by Fernández-Andrés et al. align with their internal states. Therefore, the (2015) found that children diagnosed with ASD phenomena is highly individual, and manifests experienced greater sensitivity to touch when in differently as a result of cultural norms. classroom environments than when at home. The authors proposed that the combination of The pleasure associated with alliesthesia may social and environmental context of classrooms be related to the voluntary behavior of an individual seeking homeostasis, as opposed to make physical contact more intrusive. involuntary responses such as sweating and Occupants not only sense the quality of their pupil dilation. By recognizing that different surroundings – they take part in it. In this way, individuals can have very different needs from achieving indoor environmental quality requires their surroundings at different times, engineers that occupants interact with their physical and architects can create high-performance space. Often that also entails adapting social spaces for all occupants. norms for behavior, like closing blinds or wearing short sleeves. Individual factors are This is relevant for building design because humans like to interact with their surroundings fundamental to understanding the drivers of this social behavior. Two of the most important – both to remove uncomfortable stimuli and to personal factors for comfortable spaces are create sensory pleasure. For people with ASD this is relevant because hypo- and alliesthesia and executive functions. hypersensitivity is common, and can be Alliesthesia ameliorated through the sensory environment. This may partially explain the popularity of Alliesthesia describes how an individual’s intensive sensory therapies, which stimulate the internal state and subjective conditions can body in an effort to modify behavior. Sensory make a certain stimulus pleasing or displeasing. rooms are also popular in autism-friendly It is a physiological phenomenon present in all spaces because they provide a controllable the senses that helps individuals attain what environment as a retreat from overwhelming they need. For example, a glass of water is stimuli. satisfying to someone who is thirsty, and a cold breeze can feel good to someone who is Executive Functions running (de Dear, 2011). The glass of water and While alliesthesia helps explain the motivation cold breeze can cause displeasure to the same for an individual’s interaction with the person if his or her internal state has changed. surroundings, there’s another process involved Underscoring alliesthesia is that fact that when it comes to achieving comfort. Executive humans are very sensitive to changes in the functions refer to a set of cognitive skills that environment – much more so than absolute individuals leverage to achieve their goals over states. By attending to these subtle changes, the course of a lifetime. According to Mischel & the organism can discern the most beneficial Ayduk (2002), emotional regulation and cognitive control are two foundational Design for Options capacities of executive functions. In their Occupants vote with their feet. By model, executive functioning involves the perambulating to spaces of preference, interplay of emotional-based impulses from the individuals select environments that support amygdala and cognitive processing of those their intended occupation while also providing impulses from the hippocampus. comfort. However, occupants cannot always choose between multiple spaces, and A room that offers inhabitants control of their sometimes, one aspect of a room is annoying surroundings creates opportunities to exercise while everything else is fine. This is where executive function. That’s especially relevant designers can help by providing spaces with because most individuals diagnosed with ASD locally controlled, culturally relevant options. exhibit deficits in executive function skills (Ozonoff et al., 1991). In fact, executive Affordance is one way to think about the functioning is a second-order criterion that diversity of possibilities a space offers to helps with diagnosing ASD. While executive inhabitants (Kinnaer et al., 2016). This varies function skills may or may not be involved in dramatically due to the breadth of the autism the manifestation of ASD symptoms (Sanchez et spectrum and the purpose of the space. Which al., 2011), they are nonetheless core features of is why specific guidelines for autism-friendly many established therapies for ASD (National spaces offers limited value, and the best advice Autism Center, 2015). tends to be quite general. Some popular treatments for individuals with For example, Mostafa (2014) recommends that ASD seek to transform how the body interprets school design for students with ASD incorporate sensory information. Sensory Integration seven principles: acoustics; spatial sequencing; Therapy and deep pressure therapy are escape; compartmentalization; transition examples of this approach. While these spaces; sensory zoning; and safety. Each of intensive sensory therapies may have short- these principles provides general information to term benefits, there is little evidence of their designers for consideration without listing long-term impact on behavior (Rodger et al., prescriptive criteria. Sanchez et al. (2011) also 2010). provides a broad overview of findings regarding the physical environment and ASD behavior. Nonetheless, sensory stimulation can prove to be effective in developing cognitive regulation In the spirit of general guidelines, some skills. Through spaces that afford control of suggestions are included Table 1. Perhaps a stimuli, inhabitants can learn to manage meta-principle for autism-friendly design is to sensory overload – a skill that has long-term focus on flexibility over ‘getting it right.’ The benefits (Rodger et al., 2010). Individuals also following section details how buildings that feel a greater sense of agency when they accommodate the needs of autistic people are perceive control over the physical environment better for non-autistic people. (Toftum, 2010). Findings The human preference for contrast in scale is exemplified by the evolved human-habitat Spatial Configuration relationship described by Jay Appleton in 1975. The need for personal space varies in different His concept of prospect and refuge has today cultures, and between individuals. Those with become a design pattern for indoor spaces that ASD may also have different
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