Explaining the influential components of sociability with emphasis on space syntax factors in the middle areas of commercial complexes factors complexes (Case studies: Persian Gulf and Zomorod commercial complexes)

Farahi Qasr Abunasr, Mohammad Hassan; Rakhshaderoo, Mehdi; Kahzadi, Omran

doi:10.22034/jumes.2023.2012260.1161

Explaining the influential components of sociability with emphasis on space syntax factors in the middle areas of commercial complexes factors complexes (Case studies: Persian Gulf and Zomorod commercial complexes)

Document Type : Original Article

Authors

Mohammad Hassan Farahi Qasr Abunasr ¹

Mehdi Rakhshaderoo ²

Omran Kahzadi ³

¹ Ph.D. Student, Department of Architecture, Ahwaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahwaz, Iran

² Assistant Professor, Department of Architecture, Ahwaz Branch, Islamic Azad University, Ahwaz, Iran

³ Assistant Professor, Department of Urban Planning and Architecture, Shushtar Branch, Islamic Azad University, Shushtar, Iran

10.22034/jumes.2023.2012260.1161

Abstract

The decrease in the presence of people in public spaces such as commercial complexes is due to the lack of attention to the sociability factor. The purpose of this research is to explain the influencing factors of sociability on the space syntax factors in the middle areas of the Persian Gulf and Zomorod commercial complexes in Shiraz city. This research is defined in line with the doctoral thesis. The qualitative-quantitative research method was used in the qualitative part of the descriptive-analytical method, and in the quantitative method, the field observation and collection of maps of the collections was used, and the field findings were analyzed in the depth map software. In the analysis of the data, it was found that the possibility of meeting more people is in central common spaces, cafes and cinemas. In addition, the dispersion of interconnection, connection and depth diagrams indicates the less readability of communication paths from the collective space. The most sociability happens in lobbies and at the entrance of the ground floor, which shows the importance of these spaces in commercial complexes in influencing people’s sociability. Spaces where the possibility of pausing and sitting are more, include the spaces adjacent to commercial units and the fountains and the spaces of cafes, which are the center of sociability. Therefore, the influencing factors of sociability on the space syntax factors of commercial complexes, the components, spatial structure, movement in space and recognition of the behavior pattern of users are among the indicators of sociability that affect the factors of connection, the depth and the coherence of space syntax. It has an effect.

Keywords

Commercial complex

public spaces

Shiraz city

sociability

space arrangement

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