Landscape Design: Pattern and Color in Sensory Garden for Disability Justice

Abstract

A responsive design to disability users is an unpopular design implementation for landscape design in Indonesia. Even space supposed to function for disability users cannot help them to have activities without obstacles. A sensory garden concept would be applied in the research to learn its impact on finding the result. Therefore, this research would propose a basic pattern and color to be used in the sensory garden. Combination of an experimental design on this design-based research and systematic review, the final output is expected to be a base pattern and color solution in proposing an inclusive landscape design. In urban development, it is essential to have an awareness of the welfare of disabled people. This research finds that applying geometric, repetitive patterns and overlaying colors on a sensory garden would increase the focus and attention of disability users with mental and physical impairments. This knowledge is not limited to being applied in a sensory garden and a landscape project design in general. This study also has the purpose of aiding practitioners in understanding an inclusive landscape design.