An Interdisciplinary Analytical Method for Reading Facades; Case Study of Village Squares of Kyrenia, North Cyprus

Today, globalisation and technologic developments and their outcomes combined with demographic, economic and social developments cause significant changes in the built environment that is formed of complex structures. Facades that are one of the important elements of the built structures are affected from these changes. Based on the formal characteristics, facades reflect technologic, socio-economic, environmental and historical characteristics of the period they were built in. Proportional relationship between individual facades of buildings and their relationship with various other elements such as open plots, roads, solid and void spaces, building facade create the two dimensional code and language of the built environment. Decoding and reading of the elements of built environment with complex structure consisted of various architectural spaces, facades and elements, which are necessary for the continuity of complex structure. In this regard, facades play an important role to sustain the continuity of the formal formation. From this point fort, analytical proportional relations of the built environment with complex structure through facades are shaped in regard to decoding and language reading. There is a necessity to decode the proportional relations of units, which are the smallest elements of facades, thoroughly to conduct analytical reading to ascertain the language of facades that have their own complex characteristics. There is a need for multiple disciplines, apart from architecture, in order to conduct this analysis based on the analytical proportional relationships since dual relationships are not adequate to a thorough reading. In this sense, development of a method with contribution of multiple disciplines for analytical reading forms the main idea of this study. In the study, it is deemed appropriate to choose the disciplines that guide two-dimensional analytical reading, has unit within and enables serial reading. These disciplines are agreed to be mathematics, linguistics and music. The study is based on two-dimensional formal analytical reading with the help of different disciplines and evaluation of proportional relations of facades. In this regard, an analytical reading method is developed for the interpretation of facade with the help of mathematics, linguistics and music disciplines. In that sense, this study is mainly based on the development of an analytical method through an exploratory approach and exploratory research methodology is used. Conceptual contributions of linguistics, mathematics and music disciplines are researched in the study. In the light of these disciplines, the code, architectural language and analytical formation of the facade is discussed with reference to linguistics and mathematics disciplines whereas emotional and visual meaning and interpretation is discussed with reference to music discipline. In this context, the study addresses an interdisciplinary approach for analytical reading and interpretation of the facade in order to ascertain the architectural language. Keywords: Facade, Square, Linguistics, Mathematics, Music, Architecture, Analytical Reading Method, Facade Reading.