Effective Components in the Design of Cultural Spaces through the Lens of International Documents

Contemporary architecture has not been able to fulfill its role due to its disconnection from its indigenous culture and identity. Such a disconnection has brought irreparable consequences since it has made architects get disconnected from their true origin. This has resulted in overlooking the real rules and principles governing the design of buildings, especially cultural buildings that have an identity-maker role in society. Therefore, studying the laws and rules that govern cultural spaces, especially at the international level, due to the extent of their duties in promoting and preserving ethnic culture and teaching science and technology, is important and needs to be considered in the design of such spaces. Therefore, the main goal of the research is to study the rights related to cultural spaces included in the selected international documents of the research to extract principles and components for improving the quality and functionality of these valuable places. Due to the generality of cultural spaces and the fact that the majority of their audience is children, it is necessary to pay attention to and evaluate the cultural rights related to children included in international documents. In this regard, efforts have been made to examine selected international documents, including the Universal Declaration of Human Rights 1948, the International Covenant on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights, 1966, and the Convention on the Rights of the Child, 1989 to see how the rules of cultural rights and a series of requirements and components provide architectural solutions to achieve these requirements. These solutions can improve the quality of cultural spaces and exercise relevant rights. The research method is descriptive-qualitative, and the method of data collection was library type. The result of the research indicates effective components such as sociability, the manifestation of Iranian identity, the responsiveness of spaces to children’s needs, and the efficiency and usefulness of space in cultural places.