A Survey on Relationship between Privacy and Interaction In Qazvin Residential Buildings

This paper reviews the basic needs of human in environmental psychology issues. This requirement is associated with concepts like density and overcrowding, and it sometimes is used against the overcrowding concept. As result of uncontrolled increasing in population and construction of small apartments in confined spaces in Iran, it is necessary that privacy issues are considered in planning of cities and town. Measuring the privacy in residential buildings and it`s efficacy on people interaction is the main purpose of this research. In order to make research hypothesis clear, the privacy concept and its nature and methods which is leads to it have been considered. And finally the most important function of privacy which is self looking and individual identity has been investigated. In this study the correlation method is used in combination with survey research methods. The questionnaire was prepared and distributed in the sample population (residents of residential buildings in Qazvin), then the results is analyzed in comparative studies. The research project which was held by the authors was done within a mix of qualitative as well as quantities approach. A survey was held by questionnaires both men as well as women who use residential building (110 people were queried). The result of questionnaires along side with results of literature reviews and long time observation were analyzed together to form up the research outcomes. Analysis of the results confirms the hypothesis and shows that a desired level of privacy can improve the quality of social interactions. If the privacy isn`t provided, people suffer from subjective feelings of tension and overcrowding, and this negatively affected the quality of their interactions. Analysis the questionnaires have been cleared that exerting the environmental criteria to achieve the privacy can increase the opportunities of people`s interactions in residential spaces. These results are demonstrated the research hypothesis that obtains the desirable privacy can improve the quality of social interactions. Lack of privacy may cause the sense of overcrowding and people who use these spaces may suffer from stress. Consequently, it will be decreases the quality of social communications. Diversities of men and women about the privacy are one of the most important results in this survey. Women are so tender and they usually have serious reactions when their personal spaces dominated by the others, and they have to stint their relationship when this occurred several times. Finally, it is proposed by using the principals designed of privacy residential buildings, such as the design of real and symbolic barriers, defining public and private realms, adding the appropriate functional elements, regarding the optimal sequence of access to public and private spaces, flexibility and capability of multi-purpose use of space, and solving spatial relationships, the physical privacy is provided. The result of this research can be used to design or redesign of new residential buildings. It`s recommended that the environmental criteria exert for achieving the privacy in the preparation of the plans of residential buildings and made a suitable context to spread the people interactions with high quality.