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Child-Friendly Built Environment
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Child-Friendly Built Environment

A special issue of Buildings (ISSN 2075-5309). This special issue belongs to the section "Architectural Design, Urban Science, and Real Estate".

Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2023) | Viewed by 6341

Special Issue Editor

Prof. Yao Fu

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School of Architecture and Urban Planning, Shenyang Jianzhu University, Shenyang 110168, China
Interests: healthy urban design; low energy building

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

Children are an important group that needs to be paid close attention to in society and families. However, the built environment is closely related to child growth as well. The child-friendly built environment can focus on different levels such as regions, cities, communities, and independent spaces from the spatial scale to study the construction and evaluation of space systems in child-friendly cities, child-friendly communities, child-friendly streets, and so on. From the design goals, it can center on the concepts of safety, health, interaction, etc. Moreover, pay attention to the spatial characteristics and influencing mechanisms of children's public activity spaces, street spaces, game spaces, and so on. For the research methods, tools such as big data, human factors experiments, and new technology measurement can be used to quantify the design indicators and thresholds of openness, rate of change, and visual richness of spatial form. Finally, a child-friendly built environment requires extensive exploration of design, optimization, and research precedent by planners, architects, and landscape architects to create a better future for children.

Prof. Yao Fu
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • child-friendly
  • built environment
  • system construction
  • influencing mechanism
  • design indicators

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Elements of Biophilic Design Increase Visual Attention in Preschoolers
by Roberta Fadda, Sara Congiu, Herbert Roeyers and Tricia Skoler
Buildings 2023, 13(5), 1160; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13051160 - 27 Apr 2023
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Biophilic design increases attention among adults, but little is known about the influence of biophilic design on attention in childhood. We assessed visual attention in 4–5-year-old children as a function of high and low degrees of biophilic design. In the high-biophilic-design condition, the [...] Read more.
Biophilic design increases attention among adults, but little is known about the influence of biophilic design on attention in childhood. We assessed visual attention in 4–5-year-old children as a function of high and low degrees of biophilic design. In the high-biophilic-design condition, the children saw four plants, which were placed on their desks. In the low-biophilic-design condition, the children saw no plants on their desks. The children viewed a series of abstract images on a computer screen while their visual attention was measured with an eye tracker. We found that the durations of the children’s first fixations were significantly higher in the high-biophilic-design compared to those in the low-biophilic-design. This study demonstrates the potential of biophilic design to increase visual attention in indoor environments. The implications of this finding for architecture and building design are discussed. Full article
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Refugee Children’s Access to Play in Meso-Environments: A Novel Approach Using Space Syntax and GIS
by Siqi Chen and Martin Knöll
Buildings 2023, 13(1), 111; https://doi.org/10.3390/buildings13010111 - 31 Dec 2022
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Being able to explore and play in quality open spaces in the neighbourhood is crucial for refugee children since refugee facilities often have inadequate playspaces indoors and outdoors. Access to meso-environment playspaces (around refugee accommodations) would provide refugee children with the opportunity for [...] Read more.
Being able to explore and play in quality open spaces in the neighbourhood is crucial for refugee children since refugee facilities often have inadequate playspaces indoors and outdoors. Access to meso-environment playspaces (around refugee accommodations) would provide refugee children with the opportunity for optimal physical, cognitive, emotional and social development and support their social inclusion. This study explores refugee children’s access to play areas in meso environments with six study sites in Berlin. Active space for refugee children’s play is assessed using: (1) open-source data collection, (2) method notions of perceived distance and spaces, (3) staff survey with site investigation and (4) space syntax theories of potential accessibility. Results indicated the fact of unequal playspace distributions for refugee children in Berlin with children-oriented assessment. The utilisation of space syntax in the context of refugee children is relatively unexplored. This study is thereby contributing to the space syntax literature by exploring the broader application potential of its methods. Further studies should broaden study sites with more precise environmental measures. Full article
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