Exploration of Changing Dynamics of Small House Spatiality: From Minimised Space Usage to Dynamic Living Space

In this thesis study, the changing spatialities of today’s small houses are studied and analyzed together with the changes in the structure of small households, by the diversities and dualities they have in the dynamics of spatiality which is different from traditional space organizations. As a new concept, small as living spaces has been examined from past to present by traditions and ideologies in relation with dynamics of small household structures and at the end the dynamic spatiality of recent day small houses has been focused in the comprehensive fieldwork of the research. Therefore, today’s small houses are handled together with today’s small household structures and today’s wide variety of small residential spaces with dimensions ranging from 20-100 m2 and with diverse concepts from minimum size usage to relevantly bigger living spatialities. In this context, the thesis firstly introduces the dynamics of small household structures with diversities and dualities in it and recent day lifestyles to understand better the wide variety of small houses spatiality today. In addition, studies and researches of TAYA (2011) (Türkiye Aile Yapısı Araştırma ve Öneriler) have been used to determine recent day situation of small households in Turkey as statistical, current and comprehensive data. In this context, study will focus on the spatiality of today’s small houses in the light of literary research in order to new concept based spatial relations such as; depth (dynamic relations), density (diverse relations), interpenetration (dual relations) and spatial identifiers linking these spatialities such as; transparency (perforated divider), conceal furniture (mobility), soft divisions (movable separators) finally reveal new space types and group spaces as compartments with integrated and implicit organizations. Therefore, in order to investigate these spatial concept (values and definitions) and inventions in the thesis study, space syntax and shape grammar methods were used together to measure conceptual findings with analytical results and consequently the gradation and dynamics of the varying spatialities in today’s small houses were tested by a triple method as spatial / space syntax / shape grammar. Keywords: Small houses, spatiality, space syntax, shape grammar, small household dynamics, space organization.