BEHAVIOR SETTING STUDIES  SCOPE OF ENVIRONMENT STUDIES

Instructor: Architect Danny Capili 1. user groups

- different user groups have different need and use
 ENVIRONMENT patterns, they are affected in different ways by the
- behavior studies in architecture include the systematic quality of the environment, user group maybe
examination of relationship between the environment and socially differentiated into:
human behavior and their application in the design process. income, ethnicity, age, special interest
The term has a number of partial equivalent. group, urban/rural, informal dwellers,
- it can be (1) human – environment studies squatters/slam dwellers
(2) social ecology 2. environmental – behavior phenomena
(3) human factors - this is looking at the aspect of human behavior in
(4) behavioral architecture relation to everyday physical environments.
(5) programming  Proxemics – are the different distances
between people that we considered
 the research aspect is often called: comfortable for social interaction. This
(1) environmental psychology shows distinct distances: intimate,
(2) user needs study personal, social and public
(3) social and behavioral factors  Privacy, density and crowding
 environment – behavior study contain more than a. privacy – is an inter personal control
function: mechanism that faces and regulates
(1) circulation flow interactions with others. It is the chain of
(2) proximities individuals, groups or institutions to control
(3) dimensional concerns access to themselves and what information
 behavioral factor go deeper to the psychology of the user, about them may be allowed to be
how he perceives: communicated.
(1) building form b. density – is a measure of number of
(2) social interaction needs people per unit of space
(3) sub cultural differences in lifestyle c. crowding – is psychological or an
(4) meaning and symbolism of building environment – behavior concept which
(5) technology refers to the experience of being hemmed
in, locked, or frustrated by the presence of
too many people.
 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:
(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

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