Purposeful Architecture addresses the dynamic challenges that a person with a disability must face on a daily basis. Driving architectural design is the belief that individuals with disabilities can learn. While an individual’s disability is realistically accepted, those limitations shouldn’t be allowed to get in the way of each individual’s progress towards personal independence. Purposeful Architecture is about finding individual-centered solutions that allow people with special needs to feel safe and motivated to engage in a learning and living environment that belongs to them. Purposeful Architecture™ identifies opportunities throughout the design and building process — at the initial steps of planning, during the assembling of the defined spaces, to the selection of interior and exterior materials — to create buildings that support individuals with special needs at the highest level of independence, that elevate their self-esteem and that continuously reinforce learning, growing, life and vocational skills to ultimate self-sufficiency as defined by their abilities.