Designing Public Buildings for Everyday Participation Among People with Social Anxiety

Public-building entry, circulation, waiting, and shared interiors can make everyday participation demanding for people with social anxiety. This critical integrative review examines architectural exposure, appraisal, immediate behavior, and participation across the approach-to-destination sequence. The retained aggregate summary of a 13 July 2026 OpenAlex search reports 1682 unique works, but the original record-level files were lost and that total cannot be independently recounted. The original 76-source design bibliography, supplemented here by seven contextual sources, includes five sources that directly address social anxiety with a characterized physical setting or spatial design proposition, including two unevaluated architectural proposals, and ten adjacent sources. Two targeted September exports yielded 153 distinct OpenAlex Work IDs; a dated revision-stage eligibility audit records the disposition of each and identifies five sources newly cited after targeted appraisal. Sixty-eight exported records lack abstracts, so title-only scope judgments cannot establish exhaustive coverage. A selective source audit distinguishes evidence, design inference, and transfer limits. We propose graded social permeability and ten provisional public-building design patterns, with an unvalidated post-occupancy framework. Among the sources we could appraise, none tests whether a public-building spatial redesign improves social-anxiety symptoms or task-defined participation; the patterns remain testable proposals, not treatments.