Cut outs in curbs allow for anyone in a wheelchair, or anyone using wheels to have an easier time accessing the sidewalk. In crosswalks, they allow for visually impaired people who use a cane to know when the sidewalk stops without walking into the road.
Bus stop outside East Village entrance. Photo taken: March 28th, 2025. Taken at 705 McGill Rd. This is a photo showing the bus stop with a bench at the entrance of the East Village residency. As you can see, it is close to the dorms. However, the path from the entrance that leads to the…
Stairs leading to all the residency rooms and steep incline leading up to more residencies, laundry room, and common area. Photo taken: March 28th, 2025. Taken at 705 McGill Rd. This photo shows the multiple stairs leading up to all the upstairs and downstairs dorm rooms. There are no elevators or visible ramps to…
The front entrances to North Tower are accessible for everyone, and it even has an accessible way to open the doors. And the elevators are also a universal design as they are an appropriate and sufficient way to navigate the building, and also maintain accessibility for everyone. The elevators ease the pain and significantly increase…
The hostile designs that are located in North Tower are the back entrances from the parking lot. It’s a hostile design because it does not provide a proper way for people to access the building. It’s a hindrance and a barrier to any person who has mobility issues to access the building, as the staircase…
The only universal design comes from the basement levels of each building; the rest of the stories are then inaccessible due to steep cement stairs. Creating a divide between people with disabilities and those without. Within the basement suites, you can find hallways that can easily fit a wheelchair, and each building has an accessibility…
This photo shows the infamous hill leading down to TRU or heading up to McGill. This hill proves a difficult challenge for people without disabilities, and one can only imagine how much of a challenge it can be for a person with a disability. As seen within the photo, all the accessibility dips are uncomfortably…
Shuswap Road has accessibility issues. From the roundabout onwards, there are no sidewalks, so there is not enough walkable space for even able-bodied people to get through this section of the road, let alone anyone with disabilities. There is nowhere for one to avoid traffic without walking in the ditch. For those with mobility issues,…
As pictured, this is the parking lot in front of Interior Savings, located in Downtown Kamloops. This is a prime example of universal design. There are parking spaces for those with mobility impairments, made bigger for extra room to get out. There is also a designed walkway leading up to a little ramp to get…
This railway crossing is an example of Hostile Architecture in Downtown Kamloops. As seen in the photo, the stairs are quite tall. Not pictured is the other side of the bridge, which is also stairs. The number of stairs on this bridge prevents wheelchair and stroller users from accessing it, as well as those who…