Residential Complex Based on Increasing Social Interaction Approach

Abstract

The rising increase of population in Iran, and consequently the increase in the compression and malfunctions in social interactions have caused the reduction of the utilization of open spaces in residential complexes and also the quality of these places' design. Therefore, designing a space that meets human needs is among the basic goals. This paper has collected data by extracting effective factors in forming interactions between the residents and the living environment. The criteria that were considered were resulted from the combination of psychosocial factors together with the factors of skeletal space and include centralization and direction, attention to private sectors, having a space with a semi-fixed feature, having a meaningful open space and functional vicinity. Sustainable architecture was formed during the process of the critique and review of last century's architecture in general and modern era architecture in particular. In the modern era, together with great and wonderful achievements, man has witnessed contradictions in social and environmental fields. This has gradually led sustainable architecture to become man's most basic concern to overview the basics and methods of modernism. In response to these efforts, sustainable development was formed as the latest method in the field of growth and development during the process of critical and humanist analysis of modernism. Sustainable development regards three basic subjects of economy, environmental pollution and the socio-cultural aspect in the field of architecture. The goal of sustainable designing is to find architectural solutions that provide the coexistence of the three aspects. The first two bases are technical and are connected to the material, construction methods and renewable energies. But the third one is derived from man, culture and his lifestyles and is considered as social sustainability. The direct contribution of residents in designing and creating spaces and considering the views, expectations and culture of the residents, together with creating and empowering the social interactions between the residents, increase the sense of belonging to that environment in the residents and lead to the social sustainability in the residential complex.