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Inside the dwelling unit

the purpose of human dwellings

are to inhabit human activities

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• Our dwellings should fulfill the

requirements of the activities we do in our

homes.

• Our dwellings should be safe in structures

and materials. They should be in

affordable cost.

• Our dwellings have to be beautiful and

culturally meaningful in the context of the

society we live.

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What activities our homes accommodate

– social, domestic and intimate interaction

– rest, recuperation and recreation

– cleaning, personal hygiene and bodily

discharge

– nutrition: storage, preparation and

consumption of food

– work, education and hobby

– spiritual satisfaction

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Activities require settings

• space,

• light and air (without light space do not exist,

without air humans in space do not exist)

• optimum sensory conditions (heat,

humidity, touch, smell, sound )

• furnishing and equipment,

all of them are defined by bodily limitations

of human beings

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we perceive space only

when light hits and reflects

from objects and surfaces

Therefore without a minimal lux of light we

are unaware of space

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We perceive space as void between objects and

surfaces, however it gains character with

proportions

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Therefore

proportions between the dimensions of the space

gain importance

length – width – height

human scale, public scale, urban scale,

monumental scale, mega scale,.....

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two masters studied human

bodily dimensions, they

both observed that its

ideal proportions are in

“golden ratio”

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human dimensions are important both in

static settings and in motion

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certain dimensions need to be memorized

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• apart from structural and functional

(physical dimensions) we also have behavioral

dimensions: studied by cultural

anthropologists.

• Human territorial zones

– intimate zone : physical contact

– personal zone : 45-120 cm. for friends

– social zone : 120-350 cm. for strangers

– public zone : 350-750 cm. for community

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territorial behavior of man kind

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• Other than territorial zones, we have

privacy concerns

– certain activities we share with friends but do

not allow strangers to participate or to observe

(dinner party with friends)

– certain activities we share with people whom

we feel very close(display of love and

affection)

– certain activities we want to be alone(bodily

discharge)

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Therefore we can classify domestic activities

according to the privacy degree they require:

• having friends as visitors (shared with outsiders)

• family spending time together (shared)

• family eating together (shared)

• work (singularly done but not concealed)

• sleep (singularly done)

• intimate relation (shared but concealed)

• bodily discharge (singularly done and concealed)

• bath and bodily maintenance (singularly done, may

or may not be concealed)

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• apart from physical dimensions, we also

classify our activities according to their

relations:

– which activities should be closely related ?

– which activities need to be isolated ?

– which activities need more accessibility ?

– which activities may share the same space ?

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kitchen and

dining area

sleeping space and

music room

sleeping area

of baby and mother

a kitchen may be

rectangular but living

room should be more

like square

a schema or diagram

of the dwelling

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A case analysis

in a typical Turkish

2 flats/floor apartment

building unit

extraverted zone

(where we let

strangers enter)

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functional relations

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zones with common

requirements

(piping and pluming,

water proof surfaces)

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extraverted zones

(dışa dönük alan)

introverted zones

(içe dönük alan)

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In an American

Sub-urbian

detached home

extraverted

zones

(dışa dönük

alan)

introverted

zones

(içe dönük

alan)

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architects organize spaces in two

cases

Case A

• remodelling an

existing space

– structure

– access

– space dimensions

– natural light

are pre determined

Case B

• designing a

prospective space

– have the opportunity to

control all conditions

up to some degree

(up to which degree is

determined by the

context)

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– For each activity ask

• what are necessary dimensions ?

• what are necessary equipment and furnishings ?

• what are necessary sensory conditions ?

• with which other activities, which degree of relation

required ?

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• Doors

– open out to or

– shut off from a space unit

therfore their location is important

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• Which is correct ?

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• Space behind the

door ?

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Pathways in the space

• elements of space

dictate relations

• door ways imply paths

(zones within a singular

space)

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windows have multiple purposes

• They let day light to interiors

• Their location,direction and size create different

kinds of light zones

• They let us to see the outer world, a pleasant view

or just out side

• They sometimes are for ventilating the spaces...

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• Size of windows give us

feelings such as :

– enclosure,protectedness,

warmth, privacy.....

– continuity between

interior-exterior spaces....

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• They frame and modulate the

outer world.

• Also, they create character of

the building as seen from

exterior.

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• External

character

determined

by

opennings