Abstract
Nowadays, there is increasing attention towards the safety and feelings of children in urban or architectural space. In this study, the authors suggest a new approach based on the Visual Access and Exposure (VAE) Model to evaluate the spatial safety and social psychological health features of deaf children and children with an intellectual disability in the public school environment. The authors present a preliminary study of deaf children and children with an intellectual disability in a primary school located in Deyang by measuring the visual exposure and visual access in the public environment. The results illustrate that there are a few spaces, such as a long corridor and the space behind the elevators, that are not very safe for deaf children and children with an intellectual disability. In terms of social psychosocial preference, this special group prefers to stay in low visual access areas, which may be influenced by their introverted and impaired social communication ability. This study could have implications for the existence and optimization of an architecture design for relevant groups. With the increase in school bullying incidents and public psychological health problems related to youth, this approach could be used widely in the area of school safety and public psychological health management.
Highlights
There is increasing attention towards children’s health and safety, as well as their feelings about the urban or architectural environment [1,2]
The visual access (VA), VE and Physical Safety in the School Environment In Figure 4, it is demonstrated that the crossed corridors creating spatial diversity for the children have a higher VE
Based on the research results, the authors propose the use of the Visual Access and Exposure (VAE) model as a method to evaluate the physical safety of the public environment and to indicate the social psychological health features of deaf children and children with an intellectual disability by observing the spatial location of children according to Archea‘s visual analysis method [3,4,5]
Summary
There is increasing attention towards children’s health and safety, as well as their feelings about the urban or architectural environment [1,2]. The visual analysis method is widely used to evaluate spatial safety. The VAE Model was proposed by Archea. This model indicates how the selection of one’s location within an architecturally bounded setting can affect both the acquisition of information about the surrounding activities and the ability of others to take notice of one’s own behavior. The VAE Model is used for analyzing the potential visual access or visual exposure degree. In this model, visual access (VA) refers to the degree to which information can be obtained from a point through unobstructed visual surveillance, and visual exposure
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