Position Study of skeletal factors in social interactions of residential neighborhoods

Social interaction is one of the issues considered as the most important distresses in planning the residential neighborhoods, and many of the qualities and values of a neighborhood can be found in the interaction centered neighborhoods. Population increase, social and cultural diversities and non-pursuing of past traditional models of neighborhoods in planning and designing approves such types of researches on social interactions. Therefore, the objective of this research is to identify the position of constitutional factors along with all other effective components on the social interaction. The hypothesis of this research has been established on the base that constitutional factors are one of the most important effective components in interaction centered residential neighborhoods. Considering this discussion, the inhabitants of residential neighborhoods can be encouraged for interaction and discussion in the architectural planning/designing. Therefore, the most important questions of this research are as follows: i) Which components have the most effect on the models of social interactions of residential neighborhoods’ inhabitants and to what extent are the skeletal components effective on this theme? 2) Which types of attributes do the architecture of interaction-centered residential neighborhoods have? And whether by developing changes in the constitution, steps could be forwarded in the direction of facilitating the emergence of these social relations? The study case zone is the Kharratan neighborhood of Dezful town. Questionnaire tool was selected to collect the data. Two questionnaires have been employed to investigate the under study variables in this research: 1-social interaction questionnaire 2- 12 folded questionnaire for neighborhood quality. The rating of this questionnaire was of 5 degree Likert scale and the viewpoints of 344 people were assessed from the residents of residential neighborhoods to collect the research data. The collected data were analyzed using the 16th version of SPSS software in the next stage. The research findings indicates that in Kharratan neighborhood, the components of trust feeling, values and joint activities, access and readability/legibility, relation to the past, attraction and spatial facilities, climatic comfort, human scale along with the identification and belonging feeling in addition to security had more correlation coefficient with the social interactions of the residents. The trust feelings as well as the joint social activities are discussed in developing the social interactions of a neighborhood. These 10 components can be classified in four general groups of social, identification, comfort, and structural-constitutional. As these components have significant relation with each other, the qualitative value of each group and as a result, the local social interactions can be promoted considering the architectural and constitutional factors. In addition, the results of research emphasize on the important and basic role of constitutional factors in developing the interaction-centered neighborhood and introduce the social structure of neighborhood comprised of 4 dimensions of comfort, identification, social systems, and constitution. These four dimensions together are influenced by each other. It is suggested, therefore, that the urban planners/designers and architectures of today should pay special attention to identification-constitutional and comfort-constitutional communications in addition to constitutional-social system to plan society centered spaces.