Comparing Mental Pattern of Architects and Users to Increase Belonging to a Place in Commercial Sociable Spaces; Case Study: Café-Restaurant Area of two Royal and Golestan Complexes in Shahrak-e-Gharb of Tehran, Iran

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Assistant Professor of Architecture, Shahr-e-Qods Branch, Islamic Azad University, Tehran, Iran (Corresponding Author).

10.22034/aaud.2023.271382.2414

Abstract

Belonging to third place and sociable spatial realization in contemporary collective spaces in response to the shrinking living space and the house of the contemporary human is a proper solution for improving social interactions and urban vitality. This solution requires creating some spaces to meet the need for interaction for the prosperity of community members by creating micro-spaces in macroscale urban cultural, educational, and commercial buildings with pause and relaxation aspects. The extant study aims to explain the feasibility of spatial realization with third-place sociability in contemporary buildings investigating the factors affecting its strength in the architecture of free spaces of commercial complexes. This is applied research in terms of objective and is a mixed quantitative-qualitative method in terms of the search system. The data were collected through two library and field methods and were analyzed using the path analysis technique and structural equation modeling (SEM). In this method, sampling was done randomly among the audience's society of the study area within ten intervals of the year. Realization of a third place and promotion of a sense of belonging depends on physical factors affecting the invitation of the audience to be present in the place but also requires matching policymaking of executors and managers that organize the place, quality of the audience society, and behavioral factors ruling it. In this case, the priority of social moralities, demographic homogeneity, obtaining privilege from users' long-term referrals to commercial complexes, and avoiding short-term profitable approach to individuals' presence can be seen in prosperity and higher impact of space quality on vitality.

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Armanshahr Architecture & Urban Development
Volume 16, Issue 42
June 2023
Pages 135-144

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  • Receive Date: 01 February 2021
  • Revise Date: 16 April 2022
  • Accept Date: 21 March 2023

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