SPATIAL AND PSCYHOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL EXPERIENCE: THE CASE OF CIU CAMPUS /
Younis, Saed G. M.
SPATIAL AND PSCYHOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL EXPERIENCE: THE CASE OF CIU CAMPUS / SAED G. M. YOUNIS; SUPERVISOR: DR. GIZEM CANER - x, 83 sheets; 31 cm. Includes CD
Thesis (MArch) - Cyprus International University. Institute of Graduate Studies and Research Architecture Department
Includes bibliography (sheets 73-79)
ABSTRACT
The human-environment relationship is a study involving multidimensional relations
of various fields. In this field, spatial experience is considered to be the result of
interaction between humans and the environment. In this framework, this research
aims to investigate the human-environment relationship through the main domains that
affect spatial experience; the spatial and psychological dimensions, in the scope of
Space Syntax and the mental image of the environment.
Lynch defines place legibility as the ease with which individuals comprehend a spatial
structure of a space, the notion essentially portrays a space's composite mental picture.
Similarly, based on spatial configuration, Space Syntax's concept of intelligibility
quantify the spatial layout based on syntactic measures and is defined as space's
capability to provide indications to the comprehension of the system as a whole.
The similarity between the aforementioned concepts regardless of the method that each
concept is based on, resulted in a growing research body that investigates if the Space
Syntax is a tool to manipulate the legibility of the environment. This research aims to
propose a spatial-psychological analytical framework to examine if the syntactic
measures of spatial configuration affect the mental image of space and to clarify the
relationship between spatial configuration and the mental image of space.
Accordingly, this research design is a mixed approach consisting of both quantitative
and qualitative methods is to be applied; data will be collected from literature sources.
Theories and approaches on involved domains will be reviewed to set a theoretical
foundation for an analytical framework that investigates the spatial experience and
examine the relation between Space Syntax and the mental image of the space.
The analytical framework is to be applied to Cyprus International University as a case
study of this research. However, this research does not hypothesize that syntactic
measures are the only factor of legibility, but as an important factor that affects the
degree of spatial configuration's mental representation, and perhaps is a tool to
manipulate the legibility of the built environment.
Keywords: Legibility, Space Syntax, Spatial experience, Spatial-Psychological
Legibility (Printing)--Dissertations, Academic
Architecture--Dissertations, Academic
SPATIAL AND PSCYHOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL EXPERIENCE: THE CASE OF CIU CAMPUS / SAED G. M. YOUNIS; SUPERVISOR: DR. GIZEM CANER - x, 83 sheets; 31 cm. Includes CD
Thesis (MArch) - Cyprus International University. Institute of Graduate Studies and Research Architecture Department
Includes bibliography (sheets 73-79)
ABSTRACT
The human-environment relationship is a study involving multidimensional relations
of various fields. In this field, spatial experience is considered to be the result of
interaction between humans and the environment. In this framework, this research
aims to investigate the human-environment relationship through the main domains that
affect spatial experience; the spatial and psychological dimensions, in the scope of
Space Syntax and the mental image of the environment.
Lynch defines place legibility as the ease with which individuals comprehend a spatial
structure of a space, the notion essentially portrays a space's composite mental picture.
Similarly, based on spatial configuration, Space Syntax's concept of intelligibility
quantify the spatial layout based on syntactic measures and is defined as space's
capability to provide indications to the comprehension of the system as a whole.
The similarity between the aforementioned concepts regardless of the method that each
concept is based on, resulted in a growing research body that investigates if the Space
Syntax is a tool to manipulate the legibility of the environment. This research aims to
propose a spatial-psychological analytical framework to examine if the syntactic
measures of spatial configuration affect the mental image of space and to clarify the
relationship between spatial configuration and the mental image of space.
Accordingly, this research design is a mixed approach consisting of both quantitative
and qualitative methods is to be applied; data will be collected from literature sources.
Theories and approaches on involved domains will be reviewed to set a theoretical
foundation for an analytical framework that investigates the spatial experience and
examine the relation between Space Syntax and the mental image of the space.
The analytical framework is to be applied to Cyprus International University as a case
study of this research. However, this research does not hypothesize that syntactic
measures are the only factor of legibility, but as an important factor that affects the
degree of spatial configuration's mental representation, and perhaps is a tool to
manipulate the legibility of the built environment.
Keywords: Legibility, Space Syntax, Spatial experience, Spatial-Psychological
Legibility (Printing)--Dissertations, Academic
Architecture--Dissertations, Academic