MEKAN KONFİGÜRASYONUNUN SOSYAL ETKİLEŞİME OLAN ETKİSİNİN FAKÜLTE BİNALARINDA SENTAKTİK ANALİZİ (original) (raw)

Social interaction as a way to fulfill the psycho – social requirements in individual development, can be defined as one of the humans’ basic needs. In this context, the requirement of spaces designed for humans to fulfill this need is exposed as e design problem. The spatial configuration defining the relationship between spaces where people move through, come across and socialized with each other, can develop movement patterns affecting human interaction levels. In this sense, the effect of spatial configuration on social interaction is examined in faculty buildings. The method of study is composed of observation, space syntax and SPSS analysis which will evaluate the results of these two analyses. Study area is determined as Faculty of Fine Arts and Faculty of Engineering buildings in S. U. Alaaddin Keykubat Campus located on the north of Konya city center. Social interaction activities and spaces, number of users and the frequency of activities (behavior modes) are determined in both faculty buildings by the means of observation. Then, the syntactic values of the determined points are found as a result of space syntax analysis. The relationship between the data obtained from these two analyses is relatively investigated through SPSS analysis. Lastly, comparison tables are prepared with the average syntactic values of faculty buildings and they are evaluated from the point of design quality. In the result of study, it is determined that syntactic characteristics of spaces affect social interaction activities. Spaces with high integration, isovist area, isovist perimeter and circularity values and low depth value are stated as spaces with social interaction possibilities. Also it is exposed that, syntactic values of spaces affect the frequencies of social interaction activities. Spaces which are reachable, mobile, connected with other spaces, have high visual area and circular configuration, happen to be dense interactional spaces. As a result of the comparison between the analysis of two faculty buildings, it is obvious that the formation of circulation network within the space configuration has a direct effect on the integration value of the space. Other than the location of the space within configuration, the dimensions of the space to allow different social interaction arrangements and daylight quality in the space are other factors affecting social interaction in a positive way.