Open AccessEducational building safety
Author(s) -
Ekaterina Polyantseva
Publication year - 2019
Publication title -
iop conference series. materials science and engineering
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
eISSN - 1757-899X
pISSN - 1757-8981
DOI - 10.1088/1757-899x/687/5/055064
Subject(s) - landscaping , architectural engineering , simplicity , crime prevention , computer science , engineering , sociology , philosophy , botany , criminology , epistemology , biology
The article proposes a crime prevention approach to create educational environment and particular buildings. The author explores a structural and architectural type of the educational facilities, presents some examples of these objects, identifying the main problems associated with the protection of educational buildings from criminal activity and defines the features that help to improve the safety: strong links between the building and its surrounding, establishment of semi-public and semiprivate areas, or the buffering zones, visual transparence and simplicity of communication. The author describes modern examples of schools designed with built-in security measures. Crime prevention through environmental design accepted as a structural model of educational buildings. Contemporary safety critical research were reviewed. Subsequently, the architectural, landscaping, and planning means of protection are proposed.