Improving the quality of life in a residential complex by identifying the practical criteria of educational public spaces

Abstract

Introduction: One of the approaches to improve life quality in a residential complex is by modifying them properly to an educationalpublic space. An educational public space is consisted of three factors: individual, community and physical space, the importantfactor in these environments are, the proper individual and general education and respecting the natural or artificial surroundings. Basedon the probabilistic approach, an environment can have a direct impact on an individual. An environment can teach us cultural,moral and social values. The purpose of this study is to identify the criteria for designing educating public spaces in a residentialcomplex to improve the environmental quality. Therefore, the qualitative data was collected with the help of library documentsin two categories: Residential Satisfaction Factors and Educational Public Spaces Criteria. Then, both groups were adapted based oncontent validity and a questionnaire was used to collect quantitative data. The questionnaires were distributed among the architectureprofessors, according to the Delphi method. SPSS 18 software was used to analyze the quantitative data to prioritize and correlate thecriteria and micro criteria for designing educational public spaces in the residential complex. The results indicate that among all of thecriteria for an educational public space, safety is more important than other criteria, in a residential complex, the top five criteria areas follows: health and safety, aesthetics, social -cultural interactions, and national-local identity. Therefore, it can be concluded that byapplying the micro criteria of the aforementioned criteria in the communal spaces of residential complexes, the quality of residentialenvironment can be improved.