Case Study
Design of a sanitary room suitable for disabled people at a car dealership

This is a car dealership that sells cars and repairs them.

The woman is a paraplegic and relies on the use of a wheelchair. Her grasping space and mobility are limited due to her disability. The GdB (degree of disability) is 100.

The woman is an automobile saleswoman and works in sales at the car dealership.

The employee presents the new and annual cars to customers in the barrier-free sales area at ground level, where her office is also located. At her computer workstation in the office, she processes the paperwork for the sales transactions and makes the necessary preparations for the delivery of the vehicles.

Access to the workplace is already possible without barriers. Only the toilet on the first floor was not suitable for disabled people and accordingly not suitable for wheelchair use.
To create a toilet suitable for disabled people, the former men's toilet was reduced in size by a partition wall. The resulting room or toilet has satisfactory movement areas for wheelchair use. The toilet suitable for disabled people was then installed in the toilet. To create access to this room, a door had to be installed in the wall between the toilet and the hallway. In addition, a wheelchair accessible washbasin, a tilting mirror, an emergency alarm system, and support and grab bars for transferring from the wheelchair to the toilet and back again were also installed. The doors that the employee passes on her way to the toilet (door from the showroom to the corridor and the access door to the toilet) were fitted with electric door openers and closers.

The design suitable for disabled people was supported by the Integration and Inclusion Office. Advice was provided by the Technical Advisory Service of the Integration and Inclusion Office.