Investigating the Role of environmental Organization in Resident's Social Interaction in Residential Complexes of Shiraz (Case study: Amir Kabir, Jannat, Abrisham, and Motahhari complexes)

Regarding the increasing approach to living in residential complexes, the necessity of paying attention to the design and decision making about these spaces becomes serious. Also, one of the problems that we face it today, is the matter of amount and type of people’s social interaction in the residential places, having increasingly been weakened recently, due to the gradually fading concept of neighborhood. Accordingly, the hypothesis of present study is based on the principle that, the way of organizing elements and blocks in residential complexes –due to its effect on factors like legibility, permeability, flexibility, and domain- can influence the formation of public and semipublic spaces, and consequently affect the social interaction of residents. Thus, after description of effective factors on interaction and its concepts, the impressionability of this variable (interaction) -from the underlying factors of organization- has been investigated through questionnaire. This study has been done in four residential complexes of Shiraz, that are representative of four kinds of organization of residential complexes. SPSS software has been used for quantitative analysis. The results indicate that the amount of residents’ social interaction has a strong correlation with organization type of environment. But among the declared components for organization, only the permeability, flexibility, and domain had effected the amount of interaction, and the legibility doesn’t play a significant role in this relation.