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Indoor spaces alone cannot by any means realize an effective social environment in Orphanages. Usually, there is no actual clear program considered for social indoor spaces when designing Orphanages from the outset, or there are already inactive open spaces in the Orphanages, in addition to not listening to children or involving them in making important decisions regarding the design and formation of their open spaces. Therefore, this research seeks to apply the “Participatory Approach” on young orphans to categorize the open spaces in Orphanages for labeling and defining them. The S.O.S village in Nasr City – Cairo was chosen as a case study to measure and evaluate urban design and social criteria for open spaces by knowing the factors linking children to spaces according to their feelings toward them. The study has concluded a recommended systematic framework to get to an integrated system to activate the social open spaces in Orphanages via the relationship between (The factors of linking children to spaces according to their feelings and categorizing these spaces in terms of social and psychological aspects) along with attaining the essential elements of the social open spaces system that realizes the social interactive Orphanage.