The relationship between the concepy of boundary and inner spaces: Sample of living spaces

In this study we started from the assumption that ?there are boundaries in all spaces where we continue our lives, in the life itself in every scale and in physical, sensible, and perceptible and in concrete or abstract forms?. From the beginning of the life throughout the history there have always been boundaries in nature, philosophy, architecture. Our purpose is to handle these boundaries in terms of space, which is an important part of architecture. Boundary is one of the most important concepts that human beings have always made use of during establishing living spaces and settlements unconsciously or sometimes consciously for allocating different functions to their living space, and for dividing their place as sub-spaces and using them as functional spaces. For this reason, we aim to determine the border-space relationship by choosing residence samples where the inner design in determined by the people and where people feel the most comfortable. For this purpose, especially in the first chapter, we emphasize the architecture displays in order the boundary concept to be understood; making the language and boundary concepts understandable; and especially emphasize the semiotics for boundary concept to become understandable in terms of denotation/connotations. The meaning (denotation/connotation) of boundary in dictionary, the concept of boundary in history, boundary-space-human relations; personification in perception-cognition and behavioral system, privacy, domination area and boundaries of residence are studied and classifications are made in the house scale. In the second chapter, we performed a pre-questionnaire with 50 academicians for the purpose of expressing the concept of boundary better. After the questionnaire the answers of ?What is boundary? and ?What is boundary in inner spaces? were classified and a new questionnaire was performed. On the samples we formed an analysis chart to be able to analyze the inner spaces. In the third chapter we studied the detached house and housing estates in terms of plan-sequence-vision in all over Turkey and chose 30 samples and analyzed them. In the fourth chapter, we studied the classifications on the concept of boundary in inner spaces in terms of vertical and horizontal concepts, and we applied our findings on specified samples. In the conclusion part, all the studies performed on the concept of boundary are assessed and the results from the examined samples are commented and recommendations are made.