Examining the social interaction areas of culture centers within space syntax parameters

In time, spaces and their usage have become different with the direct effect of changes in society. In the current thesis written about the environment-behavior studies, the social interaction areas of cultural centers, which built in different years in the chanced social structures, have been focused. The aim of the thesis is to exhibit syntactically how the social integration areas of cultural centers have changed in that time by strong and weak architectural programming by making correlation between physical environment and its user. Relationship of between of user-social interaction-space, cause starting the discussion of the meeting of people with each other or place at social interaction points through the route leading from entrance to event hall, shown with quantitative data, effects social interaction of building. One of the best examples of architecture of the building that analyze social change and social interaction is culture centers. Culture Centers reflect society and the dominant culture that shaped architectural built environment. In time, socio-cultural and political forces have changed functions, involved the architectural program of the culture center buildings. Culture centers built with strong programming to aiming of the establishment of Republic and setting of reforms in the cultural life, in the process until today, it has gained flexibility. This exchanged from the main structure in this study, analyzed syntactic with selected culture centers. In first chapter of the thesis, the general information about the aim, content and method of thesis is given by introducing to subject. In the second chapter, this subject has been expanded the concepts such as perception, cognition, behavior pattern and personal space in terms of environment-behavior studies by social interaction theories. In the human-environment interactions, the formation of sociopedal/sociofugal space and phenomena of strong and weak architectural programming have been mentioned. In the third chapter of the thesis, in order to open debate the changed social structures over cultural centers, the basic information about cultural centers in the literature has been included. Then, the formation of typology, the emergence of the cultural centers, and spatial variations over time has been categorized as three periods between 1930-2016. Socio cultural and political events happened in that term cause analyzing of subject syntactically over culture centers. In the process since the foundatin of republic till today, changing of cultural centers configuration depends on many socio-cultural and politic dynamics. Examining process between specified periods ın Turkey, After the foundation of the Republic, the first cultural structure is the Community Centers. During 1932-1952, community centers built with rational-functionalist attitude, the state wants to place the revolution due to strong programming has reflected the powerful router attitude building program. After 1952, community centers are closed during the transition to multiparty era. The state's power impact reduced on design of cultural centers, then showed up private with the establishment of summer cinema in 1950. By founded the State Planning Organization in 1961, planned period were passed with examined culture and education policy conditions, measures targets and investments were taken. The television that have much social effects entered the house. In 1960, 1970 and 1980 military intervention against the government have moved cultural center to the home where people come together in. These effects of social events caused that cultural centers have been started and finished too late buildings.Cultural centers design and construction process until the end of the 1990s in our country remained as intermittent interventions. In the fourth chapter, that refers methods part of the thesis, the hypothesis that the use of public space was changed in different term's cultural center, the reason why is the space syntax method selected, the examples that examined in the field study, the data collection methods, comparison criteria, presupposition and possible consequences have been mentioned. Examples that are built at different terms of 1930 and 2016 are analyzed, Kadıköy Public Education Center was selected as an example for the first period of analysis, Pendik Atatürk Culture House was selected as an example for the second analysis, Caddebostan Culture Center was selected as an example for the third analysis. Fifth chapter that is given and the comparison of the case study, example's space syntax values and the frequencies of usage and social interaction were obtained. At the first stage, variances of spatial configuration between the periods were analyzed based on with syntactic values. While KHEM has depth and divided areas, PAKE and CKM has integrated and shallow areas. In examined culture centers, isovist area, perimeter, integration and connectivity values were determined by comparison of differences between all areas of social interaction and circulation of the following spaces within three separate periods: ground floor, entrances area, foyer, consultation/booking office and the sitting areas. At second stage, the correlation between the frequency of the use of buildings and syntactic values were obtained in building's social and physical structure. KHEM's correlation between the user's frequency and syntactic values are more significant than PAKE and CKM's correlation values By detailing physical space and its usage, the correlation between the frequency spatial behavior that occur social interaction between two or more individuals and the space syntax values are also revealed. By these correlation values, how the social interaction areas in culture centers have changed in time is determined via qualitative results. In the last chapter of the thesis, the relationship between the frequency of usage of social interaction spaces and the space/architectural program has been demonstrated syntactically by analyzing the social interaction of different term's cultural centers. As a result, it was showed that strong or weak programming of building has varied in time based on the context of publicity. 1930 to present, social interaction have been increasingly spreading in building that cultural centers built different term. In the context of the thesis, while the changing of the architectural programming at the cultural centers that have multiple functions has demonstrated by space syntax method, the cultural centers come from which programs in the context of publicity and how they changed/is changing. Thesis contributes that the social life of the building is being understand better by analyzing the syntactic. However method of space syntax that is analyzed the possibility of spatial and social structure is expected to make a contribution in the cultural center building typology.