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Factors influencing the effectiveness of human behavior in designed landscapes: two case studies in Sri Lanka

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dc.contributor.author De Silva, S
dc.contributor.author Hettiarachchi, A
dc.contributor.editor Wijesundara, J
dc.contributor.editor Dayaratne, R
dc.date.accessioned 2024-11-06T08:05:44Z
dc.date.available 2024-11-06T08:05:44Z
dc.date.issued 2016
dc.identifier.citation De Silva, S, A., & Hettiarachchi, A., (2016).Factors influencing the effectiveness of human behavior in designed landscapes: two case studies in Sri Lanka. In J. Wijesundara, & R. Dayaratne,(Eds.). Proceedings of the International Conference on Cities, People and Places ICCPP 2016. (pp. 164-180). Department of Architecture, University of Moratuwa.
dc.identifier.uri http://dl.lib.uom.lk/handle/123/22917
dc.description.abstract Urban recreational spaces are meant for people to gather, relax, refresh and improve their interaction, thus should be designed consciously and sensitively to have a positive impact on a person’s cognition. The indicator of this impact will be the corresponding behaviour of users. A Landscape Architect is expected to influence the user’s movements and behaviour in creating a desired responsive atmosphere, not only by just designing pathways or furniture arrangements, but also by facilitating user’s movements and behaviour patterns associated with them. Several recreational landscape design interventions have emerged in urban areas of Sri Lanka during the recent past which seems to function well. However, whether these spaces really fulfil the above behavioural need is worth investigating. This paper intends to explore five significant factors which influence effective human behaviour in urban public spaces applicable to recreational landscape designs namely; variety, safety, convertibility, scale and permeability as commonly identified by the eminent scholars; Alexander 1977,Rapoport1977,Bentley et al, 1985and Gehl, 2010. Leading to an investigation on factors unique to Sri Lankan context, a case study survey was implemented in Diyatha Uyana, Baththramulla (n=30) and Urban wetland park, Nugagoda(n=30) with the use of questionnaires, behavioural mapping, observations and then analysed with spatial syntax software. Design following behaviour as well as design against behaviour was observed in both cases. Diyatha Uyana was ranked comparatively high with reference to all the factors tested dominated by variety over Urban Wetland Park. Lack of convertibility, sense of scale, safety and sensitivity to the psychophysiological and behavioural requirements of human beings related to recreation were found to be the weak points inducing design against behaviour of the users and needs careful attention in future recreational landscape design interventions. en_US
dc.language.iso en en_US
dc.publisher Department of Architecture University of Moratuwa en_US
dc.subject Human behaviour en_US
dc.subject Human behaviour, Designed landscapes en_US
dc.subject Recreation en_US
dc.subject Urban public spaces en_US
dc.subject Effectiveness en_US
dc.subject Diyatha uyana en_US
dc.subject Wetland Park en_US
dc.title Factors influencing the effectiveness of human behavior in designed landscapes: two case studies in Sri Lanka en_US
dc.type Conference-Full-text en_US
dc.identifier.faculty Architecture en_US
dc.identifier.department Department of Architecture en_US
dc.identifier.year 2016 en_US
dc.identifier.conference Fourth International Conference on Cities, People and Places ICCPP 2016 en_US
dc.identifier.place Colombo en_US
dc.identifier.pgnos pp. 164-180 en_US
dc.identifier.proceeding Proceedings of the International Conference on Cities, People and Places ICCPP 2016 en_US
dc.identifier.email mailangeethakghs@ gmail.com en_US


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