INVESTIGATION OF TRADITIONAL PLAN LAYOUT IN DIFFERENT GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS USING THE SPACE SYNTAX METHOD

Abstract

Housing structures, which are one of the biggest building blocks of the physical environment that reflects the society, appear in a holistic manner with their physical and social dimensions in the urban fabric and in the lives of the citizens, as well as a spatiality that responds to the need for shelter. Many traditional houses have taken their place from past to present in Anatolia, which has hosted many civilizations due to its geopolitical location. Different regions of Anatolia, where various civilizations lived, are the textures in which traditional Turkish residential architecture is reflected.

The space syntax method is a set of techniques developed to examine the spatial textures of cities and building-scale structures, as well as to examine semantic and social dimension relationships. In this direction, the effects of the life of the society living in seven geographical regions on the housing were examined and analyzed in the context of the determined traditional houses, and the abstract and concrete data in the space setup were obtained numerically by the space syntax method. As a result of the data obtained, the effects of the lifestyle and climate in each region on the spatial structure were seen. When the connectivity, integration and beta indices of the house determined in the Eastern Anatolia Region were examined, it was observed that it was the building with the deepest spaces. In addition, we see that the buildings in the Marmara and Black Sea regions have shallower spaces and are social structures.

As a result, by performing morphological analyzes on houses in seven geographical regions, it was determined that spatial evaluations were an important step in analyzing the past and present and transferring them to the future, and it was thought that it would be a basis for making decisions for the right conservation approaches while re-functioning traditional houses.