Abstract:

Man is one of the fast-growing beings from birth to early adulthood. Physically and psychically, the fastest and most variable development is seen in the 0-6 year period, called the 'first cycle of childhood'. In this period, the child developing with the environmental conditions and performs many activities such as resting, walking, sitting, moving, acquiring basic skills while living important processes of harmony in the relationship with the environment and in this process the impact of the space and the objects in it is also great. The place where children are in their daily lives is a very different way of use and time than adults. However, the design of spaces and objects related to children is under adult control; the physical and psychological development of the child is ignored. Although today educational scientists greatly emphasize the effects of the child's room on the development of the child, the child's room design is still a topic that the design world is even more neglected. In Turkey and in the world, the approach to the subject and the solutions brought in the room come to us as the presentation of items such as bed, closet, table, chair as small as size to children. However, such approaches not only prevent the child’s perceptive and cognitive development, but also increase the risk of accident in the space. Per the thing to do is that the designers try to understand and respond to all their physical and mental needs as close as possible to the world of the child. In this study, on the one hand, general information about the development of the child will be given, and on the other hand, the design criteria for the children of the 0-6 age group will be examined, and if these criteria are ignored, the problems will be revealed.