Interdisciplinary assessment of space: Tim Burton and Wes Anderson's Roald Dahl adaptations

Human beings are distinguished from other living things in the evolutionary process by their ability to produce complex tools with their hands and fiction with their minds. The paintings and sculptures found in early caves, which are the first places of shelter, give clues about how old people's ability to think abstractly, as well as how they use the space they are in to convey their messages. How the space is perceived and used to convey meaning is a dynamic topic that continues to evolve since then. The oscillating balances of space design over the discussion of meaning and function can be analysed throughout time, and this is a process that goes parallel with the intellectual history. Architecture, as a discipline that designs space for users, is a form of expression that emerges as a result of the same mental processes and inevitably gets involved in the fields of other disciplines that produce space as a tool. While this study tries to understand the space and how it is perceived from a holistic point, it aims to examine how the meaning is conveyed through space with a practice in the triangle of architecture, literature and cinema. Theoretical reading will be done through an interdisciplinary literature in order to include the important crossroads that change the paradigms related to the concept of space. Practical evaluation will also proceed under the guidance of critical analysis methods in order to bring this interdisciplinary structure to a common ground. For this purpose, two of of Roald Dahl's stories which are important in terms of space were chosen from directors who are described as auteurs: Charlie and Chocolate Factory directed by Tim Burton and Fantastic Mr. Fox by Wes Anderson. It is aimed to decipher the interdisciplinary journey of the space and the role of the perception process in this journey by discussing how the spaces in literary narrative are perceived and how they are brought to the screen by these two directors with distinctive visual styles.