HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND THE SPACE DESIGN

BEHAVIOR SETTING STUDIES

          

         

HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND THE SPACE DESIGN

Ø  ENVIRONMENT

-     behavior studies in architecture include the systematic examination of relationship between the environment and human behavior and their application in the design process. The term has a number of partial equivalent.

            - it can be          (1) human – environment studies

                                    (2) social ecology

                                    (3) human factors

                                    (4) behavioral architecture

                                    (5) programming

·         the research aspect is often called:

(1)   environmental psychology

(2)   user needs study

(3)   social and behavioral factors

·         environment – behavior study contain more than function:

(1)   circulation flow

(2)   proximities

(3)   dimensional concerns

·         behavioral factor go deeper to the psychology of the user, how he perceives:

(1)   building form

(2)   social interaction needs

(3)   sub cultural differences in lifestyle

(4)   meaning and symbolism of building

(5)   technology

Ø  SCOPE OF ENVIRONMENT STUDIES

1.    user groups

- different user groups have different need and use patterns, they are affected in different ways by the quality of the environment, user group maybe socially differentiated into:

            income, ethnicity, age, special interest group, urban/rural, informal dwellers, squatters/slam dwellers

2.    environmental – behavior phenomena

- this is looking at the aspect of human behavior in relation to everyday physical environments.

·         Proxemics – are the different distances between people that we considered comfortable for social interaction. This shows distinct distances: intimate, personal, social and public

·         Privacy, density and crowding

a. privacy – is an inter personal control mechanism that faces and regulates interactions with others. It is the chain of individuals, groups or institutions to control access to themselves and what information about them may be allowed to be communicated.

b. density – is a measure of number of people per unit of space

c. crowding – is psychological or an environment – behavior concept which refers to the experience of being hemmed in, locked, or frustrated by the presence of too many people.

Ø  PERSONAL SPACE

            - it is a specific environment behavior concept. It is a small invisible, protective sphere or bubble that an organism           

              carries about

            - the individual personal space is dynamite, it changes its dimension, stress and anxiety can result from intrusion

Ø  TERRITORIALITY

            - refer to  a group of behavior that a person will personalized, marked, owned, defend, unlike personal space, territories do not move, they have five defining characteristics:

(1)   people will defended if violated by intruders

(2)   they are marked in either a concrete or symbolic ways

(3)   they satisfy some needs or motives

(4)   they are owned control or processed by an individual or group

(5)   they contain spatial area

Ø  DEFENSIVE SPACE

            - it is an extension of the concept of territoriality, characteristics of space not make it more defensible.