Çocuk Gelişimi - Spor İlişkisinin Fiziksel Çevre ve Mekân Algısı Üzerinden İrdelenmesi: Örnek Bir Hareket Merkezi Modeli

Abstract

This study focuses on the child movement spaces by using the facts of physical environment and space perception throughout children s physical and mental development, sports has great importance in terms of both the psychological development of an individual. In a structure that may be defined as the complement of systematic movements, the age range of individual will certainly take on a deterministic task of defining the quality of the significance level. Within this scope, the study focuses on children between the age of 0 -12 years. During the period defined as the ‘early childhood' in the development process, sports for the children plays a vital role in terms of the child's affective, mental and psychomotor development. Specific to that target group, the sports is in the carrier position of over one aim like the healthy development, the performance development, the movement education, the play, the use of leisure time and the formation of aesthetic consciousness. The study aimed to determine the design principles specific to the “Gymnasium for Children " and suggested a model for the movement centre with those principles. So, the design is evaluated through the abovementioned model which had the chance of implementation.