ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on disabled spatial practices that involve "more than access". It discusses two cases in which an architectural work provides the opportunity to conceptualize disabled experiences in ways that challenge limits in accessibility theory and practice as well as in architectural thought. The chapter expresses that the full spectrum of bodily capacities could benefit if both architectural discourse and disability guidance and advocacy conceptualized the specificities of disabled architectural experience beyond the habitual terms of access. In first work, Peter Eisenman's Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe in Berlin, the chapter explores how access consist of more than functional ease of movement to a destination; rather it can be integral to our meaning-making around, and experiences of, material space. The second work, Sejima and Nishazawa and Associates' Rolex Learning Center at the Polytechnic University in Lausanne, Switzerland, provides the opportunity to examine how architecture might redefine the boundaries that normally divide ability and disability into separate categories.
