Beyond Technical Specs: Using AHP to Prioritize User Needs in Turkish Basketball Arena Designs

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dc.contributor.authorToprakli, Abdurrahman Yagmur
dc.contributor.authorBengi, Sena Isiklar
dc.date.accessioned2025-01-06T17:36:39Z
dc.date.available2025-01-06T17:36:39Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.description.abstractBasketball arenas are crucial spaces that must meet specific standards to ensure the sustainability of the sport and the quality of play. While Post-Occupancy Evaluation (POE) assesses these standards, it often assumes that all performance indicators are equally important, potentially leading to a gap between design intent and actual user experience. This study aims to bridge this gap by using the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) to prioritize evaluation criteria for Turkish professional basketball arenas designed for national and international matches, regional/local competitions, and training programs. Existing studies and reports indicate that basketball arenas in Turkey often fall short in meeting necessary physical requirements and exhibit performance deficiencies. To address this gap, this study identifies factors determining arena performance, categorized as technical, functional, and behavioral based on Preiser's framework. These criteria were further categorized according to different spaces within the arena, including general use areas, administrative spaces, and athlete-specific areas. A panel of expert sports facility design professionals provided judgments about the relative importance of these criteria using pairwise comparisons. The AHP method was then employed to calculate priority weights for each criterion. The results reveal the relative importance of different criteria for each space. For example, in general use areas, furniture suitability/sufficiency and provision of ergonomic conditions for the disabled ranked highest. In administrative spaces, fire protection and accessibility were deemed most important, while in athlete-specific areas, visual and auditory privacy and security took precedence. This study demonstrates the potential of AHP for developing a systematic and reliable framework for qualitative evaluations that measure user satisfaction. AHP-based evaluation models offer a valuable tool for architects, facility managers, and decision-makers to assess architectural design quality, prioritize design criteria, and support user-centered design processes.
dc.identifier.doi10.11113/ijbes.v11.n3.1346
dc.identifier.issn1511-1369
dc.identifier.issn2289-8948
dc.identifier.issue3
dc.identifier.urihttps://doi.org/10.11113/ijbes.v11.n3.1346
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14669/1922
dc.identifier.volume11
dc.identifier.wosWOS:001317368300006
dc.identifier.wosqualityN/A
dc.indekslendigikaynakWeb of Science
dc.language.isoen
dc.publisherPenerbit Utm Press
dc.relation.ispartofInternational Journal of Built Environment and Sustainability
dc.relation.publicationcategoryMakale - Uluslararası Hakemli Dergi - Kurum Öğretim Elemanı
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.snmzKA_20241211
dc.subjectBasketball Arenas
dc.subjectPost-Occupancy Evaluation (POE)
dc.subjectAnalytic Hierarchy Process (AHP)
dc.subjectUser Satisfaction
dc.subjectDesign Evaluation
dc.subjectDesign Evaluation
dc.titleBeyond Technical Specs: Using AHP to Prioritize User Needs in Turkish Basketball Arena Designs
dc.typeArticle

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