Investigating the Role of Space Factors in Promoting Vitality for Designing Sports Complex

The quality of urban public space has been one of the focal points of recent design research, with the efforts to create sucha public space that could satisfy citizens in different terms has been proposed as one of the main strategies for the urbandesign projects. As one of the factors affecting the quality of public spaces and urban environments, vitality plays animportant role in such settings. On the other hand, the environmental designers are always faced with different aspects ofdesigning public spaces and the important fact is that, among the various factors influencing the vitality, which one has themost important role. In this regard, this study intends to focus on the designing of sports complex in Bandar Anzali in orderto enhance the vitality. In terms of research kind, the research is a descriptive-analytical one, in terms of methodology, ituses a survey method and it is functional based on objective. According to the data, it is a quantitative research and it is afield study in terms of implementation. In this regard, among the human-based and environmental variables related to thevitality that were extracted from the documentary and desk research, five cases were selected as the basis of the researchaccording to the prioritization of environmental psychology developed by the experts from the faculty of members fromthe prestigious Iranian universities. Additionally, the research tools were developed based on this prioritization. Thestatistical community of the present study involved two cases of the sports complexes representing Bandar Anzali.Therefore, with the determination of the community, sample size and research tools, the selected variables were tested toaccept or reject the hypotheses. After analyzing the data by SPSS software, visual beauty, security, sociability, readabilityand user interaction and 24 hour activity were prioritized respectively. As a result, the analytical model of the research,which in fact includes the main factors affecting the vitality of sports spaces has been formulated as a public space inAnzali. Finally, the most effective spatial strategies have been presented to promote vitality and to achieve the researchgoals.

Keywords:

Public Space , Sports Complex , Quality of Environment , Vitality , Environmental Psychology , Bandar Anzali