PH. D. Thesis
Mrs Narges Dehghan will present his P.H.D thesis on " Facilitating
the Reading of Interior Architecture Through Achieving the Wayfinding
Strategies
Abstract
Facilitating the wayfinding and orientation in
space is one factor that increases legibility. wayfinding is an everyday thing,
but this seemingly simple activity offers serious challenges for architectural
design, because the wayfinding behavior of users in interior space is
purposeful behavior, directed and dynamic motion of the point of origin to
destination by a certain distance cannot be perceived directly by them. Wayfinding is an interaction between the user and the
environment, so many wayfinding problems adversely effect on human mental will
occur in large-scale spaces that is the opinion of this thesis. Challenges for wayfinding facilitating need a lot of
aspects that require knowledge and skills that must be combined with another
till human as user of space can go from one place to another one. The purpose
of this thesis is achieving the wayfinding strategies that people use them to
find their destinations and obtaining the design guidelines and architectural
elements that enhance legibility of the interiors. On the other, in the field
of legibility Perception, some theorists have proposed the wayfinding
strategies for more legibility in urban spaces, but these strategies have not
achieve based on coherent and functional research method, they are based on the
theorists’ observation and their theory. As a result, efficient and integrated
resource that exclusively comprises the interior legibility based on wayfinding
strategies is not in literature review. In this thesis for solving the problems,
the researcher uses the combined research method that relies on environmental
knowledge and environmental-behavioral data observation during wayfinding in
architectural space has the great importance. Results of the thesis categorize
in two parts; First part includes achieving the wayfinding strategies (four
strategies) results of users observation during wayfinding and their visibility
controlling during finding destinations and analysis of their verbal data, in
the second part, these strategies as exploratory hypothesis were re-tested by
drawing the cognition maps from wayfinding stages, surveying their sequence of
verbal data and simulating by space syntax software. The conclusions of this
thesis are wayfinding strategies in interior spaces, recognizing the interior
hotspots with their properties for wayfinding facilitating and achieving
interior design guidelines by interviewing with architects and architecture
students.
Keywords: wayfinding,
wayfinding strategies, interior space, legibility, Spatial Knowledge