RISEBA Architecture and Media Centre H2O 6
The university, RISEBA, also offers students for people with disabilities. The most comprehensive opportunities to study are in the form of distance learning studies, which allow you to adapt to the type and location of study that corresponds to you. More information here.
RISEBA’s main building is located in a historic 19 th-century building in Riga, on Meza Street 3, which was originally a rental apartment building, making it difficult to adapt for people with disabilities.
The RISEBA Architecture and Media Centre H2O 6 is ideal for students with disabilities to be comfortable attending lectures there. The minutes of the evaluation of premises can be consulted here.
Car park
- Parking lot for persons with disabilities (size 3500 mm x 5000 mm)
- The exit zone is sufficient (1000 mm wide)
- Disembarkation is level with the parking area
- Disabled parking places account for at least 5% of the total number of parking spaces
- Parking spaces for disabled people are as close as possible to the entrance door
- The car park cover is smooth, flat and cleared of rocks
Entrance
- The threshold does not exceed 20 mm in height and is not sharp-edged
- There are markings on the glass doors
- The markings are not transparent
- The edges of the frameless glass doors are clearly identifiable
- The number of steps per stair span is not less than three and not more than 18
- There are no steps of different heights in the same stair span
- The height of the steps is between 12 and 18 cm
- The entrance door opens at an angle of at least 90 degrees and is sufficient width, with a door leaf width of 900 mm, to be usable by any user
- The handle is easy to grasp and use
Elevator
- Elevator doors are wide enough for wheelchairs
- The elevator cabin is spacious enough
- Elevator stops at steep level (not half storey)
- There are numbers on the elevator buttons
- Numbers tactile or Braila
Vestibule
- The effective width of the corridor is 1500 mm
- Appropriate manoeuvring area at least 1800 mm wide in a transparent location
- Indications of the location of the registration, toilet, staircase and elevator placed on the wall shall be clear, contrasting (dark on light/light on dark), shall be situated at altitudes of 1300 mm to 1800 mm and their letter height shall not be less than 40 mm
- The indications placed at the ceiling shall be not more than 2200 mm from the ground and their letter height shall not be less than 100 mm
Staris
- The number of steps per ladder are not less than three and not more than 18
- There are no steps of different heights in one set of stairs
- The height of the step is between 12 cm and 18 cm
Doors
- The door is wide enough to drive in with a wheelchair
- Doors open at an angle of at least 90 degrees
- Thresholds of not more than 2 cm and rounded
- Room numbering is contrasting and large enough
- Glass doors bear visual markings
- The markings are visible
- The markings are placed at altitudes of 1500 mm and 300 mm, in bands of at least 100 mm in width with a filling of 50%
- Clearly identifiable without the edge of the frame glass door
Door handles
- Easy to grab for anyone
Access to facilities
- Amenities are tailored to toilets of both sexes
- The dimensions of the toilet cubicle shall be at least 2200 mm long and 1600 mm wide.
- Door flap width is 900 mm
- Flooring is hard and Nesleyden
- At least 800 mm of space at the front of the toilet
- The toilet is equipped with support handles
- Surface cover and fittings contrast effectively (dark on light/light on dark)
Access to the Hall
- The door are wide enough to enter with a wheelchair;
- Doors open at an angle of at least 90 degrees
- Thresholds of not more than 2 cm and rounded
- Room numbering is contrasting and large enough
- Glass doors bear visual markings
- The markings are visible
- The markings are placed at altitudes of 1500 mm and 300 mm, in bands of at least 100 mm in width with a filling of 50%
- Clearly identifiable without the edge of the frame glass door
- Is a ramp (in accordance with regulatory enactments)
- At least 3% of the total number of seats shall be adapted for persons with reduced mobility, providing an area at least 1,2 m long and 0,9 m free with a horizontal floor.
Access to administration
- The door is wide enough to enter with a wheelchair;
- Doors open at an angle of at least 90 degrees
- Thresholds of not more than 2 cm and rounded
- Room numbering is contrasting and large enough
- Glass doors bear visual markings
- The markings are visible
- The markings are placed at altitudes of 1500 mm and 300 mm, in bands of at least 100 mm in width with a filling of 50%
- Clearly identifiable without the edge of the frame glass door
Availability of information
- A designated place at a table where a person can sit down or ride a wheelchair
- High school allows movement with dog – guide
- Studio materials – in digital environments (the materials are available in digital format – PDF, Word, ppt, etc.)