Explaining sensory perception models affecting the sense of belonging to a place in physical and mental disability schools designed with disability model (Case Study: physical and mental disability schools in Zanjan)

Spatial affiliation refers to the relation of the index to a particular space. This sense is one of the main effective educational factors in exceptional schools that attention to the architecture of the school is very important and is one of the main goals of the research.

The present research is based on quantitative-qualitative method and survey type. structural equation modeling method was used to investigate the effect of sensory perception on the sense of belonging to a place in exceptional schools designed with disability patterns in Zanjan city.

The results of the Likert questionnaire showed that the sense of sight and touch have the highest importance than the other five senses. Among the factors of sense of place, social interactions are more important for students, parents and educators. The results showed that students need to communicate more with the community and the environment around the school to tolerate the school environment more calmly so that the presence of windows in appropriate dimensions and the ability to see around is very important. Also, diversity in material, texture, materials and flooring, creating protrusions and indentations in school bodies and hand-body contact has a significant effect on increasing students' perceptual sense.

It was concluded that one of the main effective educational factors in these schools is to pay attention to the indicators of sensory perception and sense of belonging to a place in their design, which increases the motivation and desire to return to school and stay in it.