Behavioral and Spatial Patterns and Structures in Human Space – Building with a Sense of Belonging Approach

Abstract

The fundamental issue in understanding the role of the built environment in people’s lives is understanding what the meaning of the environment is. The surrounding space is the main criterion for defining the environment. Therefore, any definition of the environment must be based on what is in the space around us, in other words, what surrounds people at the ecological level. The environments surrounding humans include biological, animal, social, and cultural environments, each of which changes the human’s attitude towards the built environment. What architects create is a potential environment for human behavior, and what a person admires is the environment that affects him. Humans have understood from the beginning that creating a place is the essence of existence. The human-made environment in which humans live is not a practical tool or a purposeless event, but rather has a structure and embodies meanings. Therefore, human understanding of the natural environment is the state of his overall existence. (Creation of Architectural Theories)

This article first discusses the meaning of the sense of belonging and its concept from different perspectives and finally explains its different levels and shaping factors. The aim of this research is to improve understanding of spatial behavior and the processes of motivation, perception, and feeling, cognition, and emotion. So that this understanding leads to improving designers' awareness of how architectural space affects the senses of users and also to provide better environments to satisfy human activities and aesthetic values.