Abstract

In recent years about the urban parks (open spaces), we see that some of them are left empty, they turned into the abstained places and they are not preferred, despite some of them are used and preferred widely. In other words, we realize the designs made do not appeal to the users and the designed spaces serve for the other purposes. In this study, the ecological approach has been adopted in terms of space-behavior relation on the basis of the question that how more successful spaces can be designed for seating activities and there was purposed to examine the behavior setting, provided position, seating and accompanying events. There has been put forward a research model by benefiting from visual domination and visual privity in other words from Theory of Appleton.With this model, the facilities which should be provided to the users by a behavior setting where seating and accompanying activities come true have been described based on the landscape preference area. Elgoli Park located in Tabriz has been chosen as working area. First of all, the most preferred places in the park and their behavioral positions have been determined by the data obtained from the questionnaires. The types of possibilities determined as visual domination-visual privity have been put forward with the research model created at the end of the study. There has been determined the positions which provide good facilities especially in terms of visual domination and uninterrupted visibility are preferred more and these positions have more diversity in terms of behaviour patterns in comparison with other places. There was also determined that visual dominance-visual privity facilities are evaluated in different ways by different genders and age groups.

Keywords: Behavior setting, Urban parks, Ecological psychology.

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