VERTICAL TRAVEL. L'accessibilità multisensoriale degli ambienti di transizione verticale nei percorsi di visita museali. Vertical Travel. The Multi-sensory Accessibility of Vertical Transition Environments in Museum Itineraries

The vertical transition – as the fruition of neighboring spaces that are connected to the visiting routes – plays an important role in the overall quality of the museum’s experiences, in terms of cultural, multisensory, safe and inclusive accessibility; a role assumed when the elevator becomes both a device without physical and sense-perceptive barriers and a multisensory strategy, which intervenes in the overall perception of emotional visiting experiences. The information and environmental communication contents that contribute to the “performance” of the accessibility, pays specific attention to proxemic/spatial requirements; on these subjects, some experiences conducted by a research group of the University of Udine recognize the fundamental requirements for an effective vertical perceptual/emotional experience following the identification of the elevator’s technical elements for space design. A targeted user testing with different phases of validation by stakeholders – following a Human Centered Design approach – declines the most general results of environmental accessibility for the qualification of the ‘elevator environment’; the results of the experimentation, still in progress and currently centered on the methodological aspects, calls for a recovery of the poetic value of the lifts in the “intrinsic accompanying function” completing the complex specific frame of reference of the psychology of architecture underlining the current paradigms of inclusive design.