A Method for the analysis of space patterns in housing with reference to open space phenomenon

Abstract

This thesis is a search on permanent and universal values of open space concept that satisfy physical, psycho-moral and social requirements of human being in house patterns. In order to find out the values that are hidden in open space, the interactions of openness and closeness of space patterns in case of housing surveyed in history and observed in today's housing patterns. This hidden language of open space and its degree of enclosure in architecture is not only a simple geometric space organization, instead it's a materialized and non- materialized image of the reality. In this study these relations have been introduced in a contextual frame by using general system and communication theories. Finally, an original typological model of analysis is being constructed in order to read this abstract language of open space and examine it in today's three different house patterns within their comparisons. The Keywords Open space, closed space, abstract space, void, architectural unit, materialized with non- materialized interrelations, livability, continuity, space patterns in housing, degrees and directions of enclosing, transparency, position, transition, composition, and wholeness.