Presenting Architectural Solutions to Improve Social Skills of Working Children

Subject Areas : Architecture

Sara Soleimani ¹ , Babak Khorshidi ² , Shiva Emami ³

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Received: 2024-02-18 Accepted : 2024-12-03 Published : 2025-02-13

Keywords: Working Children, Architectural Spaces, Social Skills, Playability, Naturalism,

Abstract :

Working children, like any other child, must learn skills that are necessary for childhood in order to communicate with society and develop their personalities and emotions. Children who work typically cannot learn these skills because of their living circumstances. The current study aimed to provide a suitable environment and context for the improvement of children's social relations in educational and care centers by providing workable solutions that are appropriate to the morals and social needs of working children to improve their social ability and skills. This is because one of the most influential factors in learning and improving children's skills is providing an environment in harmony with the needs of children in line with that skill. This was applied descriptive-analytical research in terms of method and qualitative and was performed using direct and non-interventional field observation coding. According to the results, factors such as playability of the environment, a sense of security, environmental attraction, event-ability, proper furniture, curiosity about space, connection to nature, breadth of vision and scenery, permeability, climatic comfort, a sense of belonging and space flexibility affected the improvement of working children’s social skills. Meanwhile, the playability of the environment and connection to nature play the most important role in the formation of social behaviors and the improvement of social skills in working children.

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