In this center, individuals will discover their special talents

The construction of the Gebze Barrier-Free Life Center, which will ensure the participation of individuals with disabilities in life through social, cultural, artistic, and sports activities, has progressed by 62 percent. The Gebze Barrier-Free Life Center, designed by the Kocaeli Metropolitan Municipality to enable individuals with disabilities to socialize and take a more active role in life, is rapidly rising in the Gebze National Garden. A progress of 62 percent has been achieved in the ongoing project under the Building Control Department. Intensive work continues at a fast pace to put the building into service as soon as possible. Built on 6,751 square meters of land with 2 floors above the basement and ground floor, the structure will enable disabled individuals to participate in social activities. The progress rate in the building, where the intense work is coordinated by the Building Control Department, has reached 62 percent. While the teams have completed the reinforced concrete and rough plaster works of all blocks, they are laying the mechanical underfloor heating system on one hand and installing the electrical cables of the first floor on the other. In the project where the joinery of Block B has been assembled, the curtain concrete on the side and rear facade, basement wall, and ceiling plaster works have been completed. Suspended ceiling installation has started in the project.
Discovering their talents, individuals with disabilities will be able to benefit from social, cultural, and artistic services at the Gebze Barrier-Free Life Center. Everything has been well thought out to the smallest detail in the center. Workshops will be available where disabled individuals can improve themselves, receive training in areas they are interested in and talented at. Accordingly, there will be 5 autism group training rooms, 7 autism individual training rooms, emotion integration room, psychiatry, playroom, practice house, IT and painting workshop, handicrafts workshop, reading-play workshop, dance workshop, music-kitchen workshop, male-female hydrotherapy pool (2 pool decks), 2 daytime care rooms, 3 early childhood individual rooms, playroom, sensory integration room, early childhood group room, and 2 sleep rooms to serve individuals with disabilities.
In addition to the above, the Gebze Barrier-Free Life Center will feature a gym, male-female disabled dressing showers, mosque, family counseling, psychiatrist, meeting room, archive, 4 individual classrooms, cafeteria, kitchen workshop, administrative staff, family education unit, administrative supervisor, electrical room, teachers’ room, mind and intelligence games workshop, 5 classrooms, multipurpose hall, library, and individual classrooms.