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040			_aCY-NiCIU _beng _cCY-NiCIU _erda
041			_aeng
090			_aYL 2770 _bY68 2022
100	1		_aYounis, Saed G. M.
245	1	0	_aSPATIAL AND PSCYHOLOGICAL DIMENSIONS OF ENVIRONMENTAL EXPERIENCE: _bTHE CASE OF CIU CAMPUS / _cSAED G. M. YOUNIS; SUPERVISOR: DR. GIZEM CANER
264			_c2023
300			_ax, 83 sheets; _c31 cm. _eIncludes CD
336			_2rdacontent _atext _btxt
337			_2rdamedia _aunmediated _bn
338			_2rdacarrier _avolume _bnc
502			_aThesis (MArch) - Cyprus International University. Institute of Graduate Studies and Research Architecture Department
504			_aIncludes bibliography (sheets 73-79)
520			_aABSTRACT 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
650		0	_aLegibility (Printing) _vDissertations, Academic
650		0	_aArchitecture _vDissertations, Academic
700	1		_aYounis, Saed G. _esupervisor
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