Proceedings of: Workshop on Improving Building Design for Persons with Low Vision

Cubical Layouts

But in a space like the one on the left (slide 5), where [compared to] the one on the right, you have an absence of color and shadow. It’s a sea of cubicles; a cubicle farm, as one of my friends call it. There’s no way to navigate those spaces.

You look for things -- like, in the very back of the [right] picture[ in slide 5], somebody has a potted plant on their overhead, and you look for that potted plant as a way of orienting yourself in that office space. So cubicles and things that are not fixed architecture can be just as big a problem to navigate as other options.