Analysis of fire evacuation scenarios in children's cultural centers

Fires that occur in assembly buildings cause great loss of life and property. Children's cultural centers included in assembly buildings should also be evaluated within this context. Children create an occupant profile in cultural centers, and the internal environment has an excessive fire load...

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Main Authors: Muammer Yaman, Cüneyt Kurtay
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Language:English
Published: KeAi Communications Co., Ltd. 2025-03-01
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description Fires that occur in assembly buildings cause great loss of life and property. Children's cultural centers included in assembly buildings should also be evaluated within this context. Children create an occupant profile in cultural centers, and the internal environment has an excessive fire load, which poses a great risk of fires. In fire evacuation scenarios for children's cultural centers, it is necessary to create appropriate evacuation conditions. In this work, fire safety was analyzed over total evacuation time within occupant-based fire evacuation simulations of a children's cultural center located in Istanbul. The effect of the children's theatre hall located on the top floor on a building's total evacuation time has been studied. The effectiveness of alternative fire escape routes on evacuation time through different evacuation scenarios has been analyzed, and safe evacuation strategies for children's cultural centers have been revealed. As a result of this study, recommendations were presented within performance-based fire evacuation strategies in the design of children's cultural centers. As the future of the countries, fire safety design criteria have been created in children's cultural centers for children to be able to be safe in educational, cultural, and artistic environments.
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spelling doaj-art-b806e74fb2de4cfdb54840ff313ac0262025-08-20T03:12:38ZengKeAi Communications Co., Ltd.Journal of Safety Science and Resilience2666-44962025-03-016111412310.1016/j.jnlssr.2024.08.002Analysis of fire evacuation scenarios in children's cultural centersMuammer Yaman0Cüneyt Kurtay1Ondokuz Mayis University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Architecture, Samsun, Türkiye; Corresponding author.Baskent University, Faculty of Fine Arts, Design and Architecture, Department of Architecture, Ankara, TürkiyeFires that occur in assembly buildings cause great loss of life and property. Children's cultural centers included in assembly buildings should also be evaluated within this context. Children create an occupant profile in cultural centers, and the internal environment has an excessive fire load, which poses a great risk of fires. In fire evacuation scenarios for children's cultural centers, it is necessary to create appropriate evacuation conditions. In this work, fire safety was analyzed over total evacuation time within occupant-based fire evacuation simulations of a children's cultural center located in Istanbul. The effect of the children's theatre hall located on the top floor on a building's total evacuation time has been studied. The effectiveness of alternative fire escape routes on evacuation time through different evacuation scenarios has been analyzed, and safe evacuation strategies for children's cultural centers have been revealed. As a result of this study, recommendations were presented within performance-based fire evacuation strategies in the design of children's cultural centers. As the future of the countries, fire safety design criteria have been created in children's cultural centers for children to be able to be safe in educational, cultural, and artistic environments.http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2666449624000768Fire safetyPerformance-based fire safetyFire evacuationChildren's cultural centersAssembly buildingsEvacuation time
spellingShingle Muammer Yaman
Cüneyt Kurtay
Analysis of fire evacuation scenarios in children's cultural centers
Journal of Safety Science and Resilience
Fire safety
Performance-based fire safety
Fire evacuation
Children's cultural centers
Assembly buildings
Evacuation time
title Analysis of fire evacuation scenarios in children's cultural centers
title_full Analysis of fire evacuation scenarios in children's cultural centers
title_fullStr Analysis of fire evacuation scenarios in children's cultural centers
title_full_unstemmed Analysis of fire evacuation scenarios in children's cultural centers
title_short Analysis of fire evacuation scenarios in children's cultural centers
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topic Fire safety
Performance-based fire safety
Fire evacuation
Children's cultural centers
Assembly buildings
Evacuation time
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