An Evaluation of Social Interactive Spaces in a University Building (original) (raw)
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Journal of Social And Humanities Sciences Research (JSHSR), 2018
Social interaction is mentioned as one of humans’ needs because it is a way to fulfill psycho-social requirements in individual development. Spatial configuration can develop movement patterns giving opportunity for social interaction as it defines relationship between spaces where people move, come across and interact with each other. In this study effect of spatial configuration on social interaction is investigated and a research model composed of observation, space syntax analysis and SPSS analysis is used. For case study, Faculty of Fine Arts in Selçuk University is selected. Social interaction activities, spaces preferred for these activities, number of people in these activities and frequency of them are determined by observation. The syntactic values of places are determined by Syntax 2D analysis. The relationship between findings of two analysis is assessed comparatively through SPSS. As a result, it is determined that syntactic characteristics of space is effective on social interactional spaces. The architectural quality of social interactional spaces are also investigated. Consequently, it is expressed that, if a space has a spatial configuration which is accessible, active, connected with other spaces and has a wide and uninterrupted visual area with its surrounding, that space can easily become a dense social interactional space.
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We aim to identify the role of spatial configuration in the social interaction, collaboration and sense of community at academia. We focus on the spatial configuration of three school buildings used by three different departments within the campus of a university in Izmir and utilize both spatial and social data. We have analyzed spatial data by Visual Graph Analysis (VGA) and searched for the spatial integration of the buildings with different plan typologies, but all have cell-based office configuration, which constitute linear plans with atrium, L-shaped and square with repeating floor plans. Social data is gathered by a questionnaire survey that is conducted with faculty members enquiring their office location in relation to spatial integration, sense of community, interaction and collaboration. We use correlation and regression analyses for the analyses of social data. Findings suggest that collaboration is independent of the plan typology but spatial integration promotes interaction and sense of community.
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