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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.
(5) programming
(1) environmental psychology
(1) circulation flow
(2) proximities
(3) dimensional concerns
(1) building form
(5) technology
- 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
- 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
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.
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
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:
DEFENSIVE SPACE
- it is an extension of the concept of territoriality, characteristics of space not make it more defensible.
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