Private Spaces in Academic Educational Environments

Hamidreza Azemati¹ Somayeh Pourbagher² Mona Mohammadi³

1) Associate Professor, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Design Engineering, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Tehran, Iran.
2) Ph.D Student, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Design Engineering, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Tehran,Iran.
3) Master, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Design Engineering, Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Tehran,Iran.

محل انتشار : پنجمین کنفرانس بین المللی علوم و مهندسی(5icesconf.com)
Abstract :
Environmental knowledge can be useful for increasing the quality of academic environments according to users’ needs. Studies shows that academic spaces just proper for students’ short-term needs because of the certain problems such as : lack of sense of belonging to space, improper definition of private space, lack of inviting factors to group spaces, lack of space attraction resulted from non-attention to private space, and also lack of privacy and security. Therefore, the aim of this study is reviewing theories and psychological approaches about private space conceptions; then extraction of effective desirability factors in private spaces. This study is used the combined quantitative and qualitative approach. Written resources and half-structured interview by experts of this field were used to collect data which was first analyzed by content analysis method and then classified. Then it was surveyed in order to clarify importance of elements. Initial questionnaire obtained from content analysis distributed among several experts consisted psychology and architecture professors who were selected by random clustering method. Data was analyzed by Delphi technic and Spss software. Finally, the most important effective factors were obtained in: 1) physical space privatization, 2) using boundaries to separate space, 3) making semi-private and private spaces. The most important elements in psychology field include: 1) security,2) population congestion, and 3) considering people different needs.
Keywords : Academic spaces ; Architecture ; Personal space , Privacy