PRIVACY,

TERRITORIALITY,
DEFENSIBILE SPACES
PERSONAL SPACE
• invisible boundary surrounding
the person’s body into which
intruders may not come
4 DISTANCE ZONES
• Intimate Distance
• Personal Distance
• Social Distance
• Public Distance
PRIVACY
• the ability of an individual or groups
of individuals to control their visual,
auditory, olfactory interactions with
others
• the ability to have options and to
achieve desired level of interactions
KINDS OF PRIVACY
Solitude: state of being free from
observation by others
Intimacy: state of being with another
person but free from the outside world
Anonymity: state of being unknown even in
a crowd
Reserve: state in which a person employs
psychological barriers to control unwanted
intrusions
CROWDING
• associated with a feeling of lack of
control over the environment
• leads to negative behavior because
they are related to social overload
• results from overmanning of
behavior settings
DESIGN IMPLICATIONS
• need for privacy greater for
introverts than for extroverts
• extroverts like contrast with the
environment
• introverts like courtyards
DESIGN IMPLICATIONS
•extroverts like strong central
plans
• introverts like complex
internal relationships and clear
territorial patterns
• people under stress need
more privacy for workplaces
LEVELS OF PRIVACY AND
CULTURE
• traditional Islamic dwelling
vs.traditional American
dwelling
• the delineation of spaces in
the traditional bahay kubo, the
bahay the bato
LEVELS OF PRIVACY AND
CLIMATE
• trade-offs between privacy and
comfort
• physiological comfort vs.
cultural requirements
PERSONALIZATION
• staking claims to places
• manifestation of desire for
control and expression of
aesthetic tastes
• effort to make an environment
fit activity better
• done for psychological security
TERRITORIALITY
• a delimited space that a
person or a group uses and
defends as an exclusive
preserve
• involves psychological
identification with a place
BASIC CHARACTERISTICS
OF TERRITORIES
• ownership of and rights to a place
• personalization of marking of an
area
• defense against intrusions
• serve functions ranging from
physiological to self-actualization
SYSTEM OF HUMAN
TERRITORIES
Defensible Space: a space
that affords easy
recognition and control of
activities
Levels:
• visual access
• adjacency
• monitored by computers
or cameras
TERRITORIAL VARIATION
as a factor of:
• social class
• civil status
• religion
SOFT ARCHITECTURE
• the building or environment
can be personalized without
damage to them or without
difficult surgery