Riabilitare nel parco. Un circuito di addestramento per la formazione alla mobilità in autonomia - Rehabilitation in the Park. A Training Circuit for Autonomous Mobility Learning

The public park is a place of care and psychophysical well-being and in its naturalness, it contributes to preserving urban biodiversity when it is an integral part of health acilities it has a sanitary function, it is therapeutic and can host new technological systems dedicated to care. This is the case of the rehabilitation path of the Azienda Sanitaria Universitaria Friuli Centrale (ASUFC) built in the park of the Institute of Physical Medicine and Rehabilitation (IMFR). The innovative value of the project is in the process that, seizing the opportunity of a private donation, involved the IMFR for the instrumental identification and definition of the functional requirements for the treatment needs, and involved the Centro Regionale d’Informazione su Barriere architettoniche e Accessibilità del Friuli Venezia Giulia (CRIBA FVG) for the performance definition of the components of the technological system to the designers in charge of the Global Project Architettura Inclusiva studio and to the technical area of ASUFC the task of understanding the elements of participation and returning a path whose attention to construction detail made it possible to achieve the objective. It is a therapeutic itinerary that contributes to the gradual and planned progress of the mobility of a disabled person it is the result of a participatory process with the occupational therapists of the IMFR and shared with stakeholders through the CRIBA, it returns a simulation system according to the parameters of validated rehabilitation tests. The course respects the national regulations on architectural barriers and offers patients the possibility to concretely experience the obstacles to environmental accessibility of building and urban structures it is presented as a training circuit that on the whole reproduces in succession elements of collective spaces, giving patients the possibility to test their personal mobility and ability to use aids in relation to spatial components. The possibility of understanding the spatial components by interpreting the standards is a further potential of the realised structure that could also be instrumental in the didactics of architecture for universal design. Furthermore, the potential with respect to sensory experimentation is also noted with the awareness that it is the task of design to create enabling environments and build accessibility for effective inclusion. In designing spaces for the generality of people, it is necessary to engage in a careful and patient search for solutions that, starting from a universal’ base, can deal with even very specific problems, trying to find a balance between the aspiration to universality and the attention to individual needs.