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Coco's accessibility background story
Healthcare assistant
Inclusive design process
Inclusive design process
I paid my way through 9 years of studying Architecture and Design, by working as a Health Care Assistant, this gave me an inside view and fundamental understanding of the importance of the built environment surrounding the ill and vulnerable.
My first ever project in project design was designing a kettle for patients suffering from Rheumatology Arthritis. This developed on a deeper level and became a passion which has followed and marked me through my professional career.
Inclusive design process
Inclusive design process
Inclusive design process
During my studies towards my Masters in Architecture and Design, which I undertook in London, I continued my special interest in psychology of space, and 12 years ago, after 11 years of working for an internally well-established London based company specializing in healthcare architecture, I decided to go solo.
in 2012, mother of 4 kids from 4 and down, I founded Coco - a private architectural practice with the emphasis on putting the end user in the forefront.
Today I have a very holistic approach to the built environment, and I proudly help parents to create homes suitable for their special children with physical or mental special needs and likewise I help (adult) children supporting their parents in enjoying their homes during later life. I further love working with those bracing 60-something who embraces the life ahead of them and wish to create a home suitable for later life living in maximized comfort and without worry of what if one day......
Counselling background
Inclusive design process
Counselling background
In parallel with my architectural career, I have completed a diploma in counselling, an extra skill which enables me to hear and understand my clients better and have given me the interpersonal skills which are needed in order to work with my clients to analyse their family dynamics and translate this into spatial needs. If you feel I can support you in your journey to create the best home for your family, please keep on reading and feel free to get in touch.
Services are provided in both Hebrew and English and as stand-alone consultations, ad hoc or full home remodeling and renovation services.
services provided
What we can help you with
Renovation and adaptation of apartments and houses for people with functional difficulties
Coco Accessible offers a holistic solution for a safe and independent environment at home, for people with disabilities, or illness at all ages or for the elderly.
We are passionate about adapting houses, to turn them into long-term accessible homes, or when needed into a temporary home for rehabilitation. We look at remodelling and renovate for the disabled, the elderly and for those with physical or mental special needs.
We undertake to provide you with a personalised services and look at your personal needs as a family and as an individual. We work with you on all the work necessary to renovate and adapt your home to ensure you can enjoy a life, accessories and auxiliary equipment - a spectrum of services that constitute a complete envelope, which is so essential for those with special needs.
Our goal is to enable the elderly and those suffering from disabilities to live in a safe, independent, accessible and comfortable space, even in a complex period in which functionality and mobility becomes paramount in our lives.
The overall aim of this approach is to preserve and restore the way of life and give a feeling of security and respect to individuals and their families.
Planning and adapting accessible homes
Planning and adapting an accessible home for people with disabilities and the elderly is a complex process that requires knowledge and experience.
The process of adapting a home for a person with a disability has an immediate and long-term effect on independence, comfort, security and quality of life and family dynamics. Making the home accessible to a person with a disability and creating an accessible home will significantly improve the quality of life. Therefore, it is important to consult, plan and carry out the process properly and with a long-term vision, in order to avoid mistakes, functional difficulties, waste of money, time and grief in the future...
Working with other professionals
When required we will work with occupational therapists and physiotherapist who will diagnose and assess the actual functionality and our role will be to translate this into design solutions, materials and accessible and user-friendly spaces. It is always important to us that these solutions for the accessible homes are carried out in a pleasant and aesthetic way, so our end-users don’t get the feel of an institutionalised solution in their home environment.
We run informative discussion with parents of special children.
We are happy to help and facilitate meet-up between families in similar situations can connect and where frustrations, helpful tips and experiences can be shared in order to reach better caring-at-home solutions.
We work with you
We will spend time to understand your family set up and dynamics, we want you to feel like a team player and we will guide you through the process to ensure we create an end product which is suitable for you and your family’s specific needs.
We further ensure that our design solutions allow for the broader family and look at the whole house in a holistic manner so we can ensure the family home is suitable for all family members so no siblings should ever feel that they are forgotten about in the muddy world of a disabled sister or brother..
