Document Type : Original Research Paper

Authors

• pooria saadativaghar ¹
• Esmaeil Zarghami ²

¹ Assistant Professor, Department of civil engineering and architecture, Malayer University , Malayer, Iran

² Shahid Rajaee Teacher Training University, Faculty of Architecture and Urban Planning

Abstract

The psychological restoration is considered one of the important psychological variables among those who refer to urban parks, but in Iran, this category has received less attention. Besides, the level of psychological restoration of visitors in different natural environments is not the same. We seek to compare the rate of psychological restoration in various areas of urban parks and introduce a valid, and indigenous tool to measure the rate of psychological restoration (Restoration Scale Localized Questionnaire: Rs) in these environments. The strategy of this research was logical reasoning, and its tactic to evaluate the spatial configuration of urban parks was SPACE SYNTAX method. Moreover, in the section of measuring the mental state of citizens referring to urban parks, standardized and localized RS (restoration scale), and finally using statistical analysis to express the relationship between the spatial classification and psychological restoration of citizens. Moreover, the analysis of relationship between spatial configuration and restoration due to the coefficient of determination showed that 46.8% of the changes in (psychological) restoration variable are related to spatial configuration variables and the restoration changes are mostly related to depth, control and entropy variables. Based on these findings (on the condition of conducting additional studies), design parks with maximum cozy spaces and away from crowding that have minimal design entropy, and in its various fields, the least possibility of control and visual and movement permeability is possible, to improve the state of spatial configuration of urban parks in order to enhance the mental health of visitors to these parks, to researchers, decision makers and urban and landscape designers is suggested.

Keywords

• Spatial configuration
• space syntax method
• psychological restoration
• urban parks

Main Subjects

• Urban Design