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Corresponding Author

Ibrahim, Shimaa

Subject Area

Architectural Engineering

Article Type

Original Study

Abstract

A group of society may have a child with excessive mobility activity different from the rest of the children, to find difficulty in dealing with him and control his unintended actions, which may make their parents not take him anywhere for fear of embarrassment caused by his actions resulting from his many movements without realizing and awareness that he is a different child and classified as a category with special needs, and that he needs special care and different from other healthy children and that his awareness and understanding is not like the rest of the children of his age, he and those like his condition are not Stupid as some parents and their teachers think at school, and they are not careless or stubborn, but on the contrary they may appear smart and creative in many situations. The appropriate internal design environment must be available in behavioral treatment centers that are compatible with the activities of hyperactivity disorders and distract attention to meet the behavioral, psychological and physical needs by taking into account the foundations and design considerations of these spaces, which affect the abilities, privacy and comfort of these children. The research aims to propose the criteria and foundations of successful internal design that are compatible with the activities of the category of hyperactivity disorders and distracting attention, to apply them to the study and analysis of the internal spaces of one of the treatment and behavioral centers in Saudi Arabia, which are in line with the continuing requirements of this category, through proposals to develop the architectural and internal design of functional spaces that can contribute to associations and centers related to the design of this type of behavioral therapeutic buildings for people with special needs of the category of hyperactivity disorders and distract environmentally proportional attention to their different needs, to reach results and recommendations that would elevate that important category of society.

Keywords

Solar Radiation; thermal comfort; Wall-facing materials; albedo; Reflection coefficient; Absorption factor; Heat protection; Heat insulation

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