The Impact of Environmental Design on the Safety and Security of the Residential Environment

Abstract

The environmental design is one of the most important aspects that must considered when the architect or urban designer designs any residential complex or a suitable safe residential environment, as the need to safety and security is one of the human needs, which makes the human steadier and firmer. The research problem of this paper is no clear perception about the role played by the environmental design in achieving safety and security in the residential environment. Therefore, the research aims to determine the elements of the environmental design affecting in raising the level of safety and security in the residential environment. This paper established a framework derived from the literature review and employed its design elements, characteristics and strategies in the project through using quantitative methodology a questionnaire forms. Also, a case study was used to make a whole idea about the used methodology. Due to Data Analyzing conducted by Microsoft excel sheet, the research reached to the most important conclusions and recommendations such as using the elements of environmental design will raise the level of security and safety in residential environment. In addition, it determined the most important strategies of the environmental design which plays an important role in raising the level of residential safety and security, as well as reached that achieving safety (psychologically) come through the availability of security (mentally) which come through the environmental design and its element which had reached to in the research.