Consume it! Produce it! by GĂźlistan KenanoÄ&#x;lu
CONSUME IT! PRODUCE IT! [Territorality + Basic Spatial Needs] Kayseri, Turkey Fall 2018 [Academic]
Course is based on experimental design and its professional application process, in related with interdisciplinary design problem solving. It is focused on not only a design process but also its technical and application project/process requirements. The aim of the course is to design a user centered street furniture in AGÜ Campus by involving it with the identity of the environment. User requirements and context are used as an input during all stages of the design process. video link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-8IBxm8Lok&t=60s production: https://youtu.be/EZwnR2WXsI4
ROLE Designer + Producer [Individual]
CONTRIBUTION Execution of concept + Production of full scale model + Understanding of territoralities
PROFESSORS/SUPERVISORS Vacide Batül Kurtuluş betul.kurtulus@agu.edu.tr Ayşegül Kıdık aysegul.kidik@agu.edu.tr
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*(hu)man’s basic spatial needs This research made for the course of Experimental Design Studio/ Fall 2018-2019. The aim is to understand, analyze and design an ‘urban furniture’ in the AGU campus for a group of specific audience.
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As the world changes, peoples are changing. One feels uncomfortable while walking on the street, meeting with a stranger. Therefore, transparent frontiers and physical barriers come to light between people. In case of AGU, there is such fact specifically between student (!). In that sense, a survey’s done on student that studies at AGU. The ‘real question/that is important for the study’ was -Are you spending time in silent places or in crowded places?- According to my observations there was not a specific meeting point in the campus. However, the questions get shaped under that need. * The Questions -Do you like spending time outdoors on campus? -Are you spending time in silent places or in crowded places? -Do you think the number of seating elements and landmark on the campus is enough? -On average, how much time do you spend on campus outdoors? -Do you wait much at the meeting points to meet with your friends?
The answers were analyzed (it’s seen in the upper graphic), after survey’s done. It was interesting that most of the people wants a silent space. After the survey and my observations, I try to understand and analyze the human territories, basic spatial needs and their feelings when the spatial boundaries are crossed.
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*** The way an organism behaves depends a great deal on where it Is in relation to its territory (Howards, H. E.). Peoples are reacting in different ways to space. Some researches show that the arrangement of furniture had a strong influence on the relations and interactions between the patients (researches are about…). Afterward, two basic type of spatial arrangements are propounded by Dr. Humphry Osmond which are ‘sociofugal’ space that forces people together and ‘sociopetal’ space that pulls people together. It is possible to change the sociofugal space to sociopetal space by rearranged furniture. So, how does spaces mold peoples behavior into different contexts?
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(Hu)mankind tend s to follow the highly patterned spatial framework. The spatial framework can be classified as fixed-feature that is enclosed space, semifixed-feature and dynamic space. ‘Fixed-space’ is enclosed space that varies culture to culture. ‘Semifixed-feature space’, that has physical objects (principally furniture) that can be moved by ones, give chance people to either increase and decrease their interactions with others. The general character of their interactions can be controlled. For example, people who are sitting around a long rectangular table do not have interactive communication and they do isolated from each other.
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There are some other papers about the effect of physical barriers on friendships. As an example J. T. Gullahorn explanation is, if an office has a cabinet for office workers that has more subunits, so is interaction increases. ‘Dynamic space’ has the personal space and by the way people take the space into consideration, their communications effected. (Hu)mans are not limited to their skins (one boundary), they have a few such as personal, social and public zones. Whe the boundaries have been crossed, receptors distinguish and it is become important that at the moment, how one is feeling toward others.
The way people space themselves says much about their relationships (Howards, H. E.).
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However, those two persons are addressed as two different spatial schema and in this case, the spatial organizations are analyzed. Afterwards, It became a basic 3D volume. People afraid to touch each other both physically and psychologically.
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Two individual persons taken into consideration as a (hu)mankind and as a differentiated spatial need. It s seen in the first graphic that persons are very clear and not thinking about each other. There is an absolute distance between persons to differentiate them. However, there is a well-organized spatial context. When they come a little closer, they start to think about each other and spatial organization starts to become distorted. Therefore, when they try to create a conversation/relation, the spatial organization became more and more fuzzy and distorted.
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There is transparent frontiers between them. To break the frontiers, they need to do nothing and just watch each other. Since, the furniture will be made by ‘pestil’, it will be remained ‘consumption’. In this case, borders between people and uncomfortable feelings will be consumed by reducing the lines. The interactive relation between (hu)mankinds - (hu)mankinds and (hu) mankinds - urban furniture will be produced. The installation will be actively used and be a part of the process design.
C o n c e p t u a l F r a m e w o r k
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People afraid to touch each other both physically and psychologically. There is transparent frontiers between them. To break the frontiers, they need to do nothing and just watch each other. Since, the furniture will be made by chocolate or else, it will be remained ‘consumption’. In this case, borders between people and uncomfortable feelings will be consumed by reducing the lines. The interactive between humanbeings-humanbeings and humanbeings-street furniture will be produced. The installation will be actively used and be a part of the process design.
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dimensions
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human behaviors
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The inner structure designed to make a record of ‘ human behaviours’ which is the initial concept of the edible space. The deformation of the inner structure will present -which spaces were used active and which ones were passive- during the process.
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Spatial Organisation and ‘The Edible Material’ Organisation
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The way people space themselves says much about their relationships (Howards, H. E.)
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The inner structure created to record the behavior of the users. It was important to record the behaviours because the initial concept is understand the territorality, and spatial basic needs for (hu)man beings. After production, a secret camera record users act to the pavilion. Basicaly user dont want to touch the inner structure, generally they try to jump or goes under it. So deformstion on the inner structure was not clear. Therefore, it is another fact to not use the inner structure. In the pavillion there is basically 3 different featured edible material which are the longest one, the long one and the short one. The other basic act was that users generally not try to reach the shortest edible material, because of the height [after some time while i was look for the result physically, Äą saw that shortest material was there, but the longer ones were not there]. For more result please see the following link; https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x-8IBxm8Lok&t=60s
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ARCHA101: Experimental Design Studio / Fall 2018-2019 Street Furniture Design in AGU Campus
References: Edward, T. E. 1974. Designing for Human Behavior: Architecture and the Behavioral Sciences. Volume of ‘Meeitng Man’s Basic Spatial Needs in Artificial Environments. (210-233) Campbell, D. And Stanley, J. 1966. Experimental and Quasi-Experimental Designs for Research, Chapel Hill. N.C.: University of North Carolina Press
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Gülistan Kenanoğlu 120110025
Proshansky, H. M. 1972. Methodology in Environmental Psychology: Problemns and Issues, Human Factors, Vol. 14, No. 5 (451-460)
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Consume it! Produce it! Edible Pavilion Gülistan Kenanoğlu BA Architecture Experimental Design Studio Tutor: Dr. Vacide Bttül Kurtuluş