抄録
As for disabled people, it is desirable or rather natural as it is for normal people to live with their family. Unfortunatly, ordinary houses are not well designed for the convenience of disabled people using wheel chairs or something like those. Especially, the well designed sanitary quarters are one of the most important points of a house for the disabled, because of their private and frequent use. In this paper, we studied the ways of using bath room of several typical types of disable people in the model bath room for experiment. One of the distinctions of this study is its variety of constituents which are medical, human engineering architectural, and industrial teams. The construction of this model bath room for the experiment are as follows. The height of bath tubs from the floor level is changeable, and supportant apparatus, such as handrails, poles, stools, and sliding boads (which are used for crippling approach from the entrance of bath room to the bath tub after transferred from their wheel chairs) are able to set in various places and positions of walls. We analysed the types of bathing from following viewpoints. Those are, observations of reserchers, photo-analysis, feelings of users. We derived several better bath room systems for each type of the disabled, to get more natural postures and smooth actions.
