Explaining the optimal functions of environment in terms of socializing educational and cultural centers for adolescents (Case Study of the Center for the Intellectual Development of Children and Adolescents)

Subject Areas : Architecture and urbanism

paniz molavi nojoumi ¹ , Sara Jalalian ² , omid dejdar ³

1 - M.Sc, Department of Architecture, Hamedan Branch, Islamic Azad University.
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Hamedan Branch, Islamic Azad University. *(Corresponding author)
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Hamedan Branch, Islamic Azad University.

Received: 2018-08-02 Accepted : 2019-05-01 Published : 2021-01-20

Keywords: intellectual development center for children and adolescents, environmental capability, adolescents, sociability, educational-cultural spaces,

Abstract :

Background and Objective: Adolescents need the most basic environmental features, namely the need for social power in the environment The purpose of this study is to investigate physical, non-physical and perceptual characteristics to explain the optimal environmental affordances in order to obtain maximum socialization in adolescent educational and cultural settings.. Methods: This is a descriptive-analytic study carried out in two sections. The first part deals with theoretical framework with a qualitative approach, reviewing the theoretical foundations of the research. The second part uses a qualitative-qualitative approach and case study method in combination with factor analysis of a large number of variables using SPSS and Smart PLS software to examine the results of the questionnaire. Five Likert scale questionnaires have been developed based on the theoretical framework indicators. Findings: Social spaces are among the ones' and bodies that provide the focus for dynamic activities in certain parts. According to the following six factors, "physical", "non-physical", "personality", "social", "cultural" and "emotional" as the capabilities of each environment, The analyzes showed that in the field of environmental capability, four factors were important (physical, personality, social and emotional) in order to socialize adolescent environments, which demonstrates the provision of peripheral- personality capabilities of these group of individuals. Discussion and Conclusion: the results showed that physical environmental capability is as the most effective factor that it can be expected to increase the socialization of adolescents in cultural-educational spaces with the least change. According to the paths extracted from the PLS model, the path to social capital factors having the highest path coefficient (0.516) is the critical one of the conceptual model of socialization among others.

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