Personalization at Social Housing District in Sakarya, Famagusta

ABSTRACT: The term of “personalization” is commonly used to identify when adapting something regular in accordance with individual needs and preferences. The need for personalization emerges from different social status, social and cultural effects, traditions of that society, individual requirements and life style of the current user where all these also may vary during the time by changing the needs of the current users. The functional requirements are based on the members of the house and their arrangements inside of the building. The life styles of the users depend on the ages of them, the activities that are changing according to their ages, and requirements that they used also the way of using them. The main purpose of this research was to question the personalization at social housing district in Sakarya district in Famagusta. It is identified the reasons behind the physical changes as well as their influence to the environment. The personalization in the social housings are analyzed by six issues; space addition to the building form, architectural detail on the building frame, base plane, object in space, building border definer and fixture. This research, describes several addition and/or changes made to the social houses in order to make more personalized building. A total 75 units are analyzed. The evaluation obtained after the analysis provided that mostly the owners extended the entrance hallway and living room and the small amount of them did bedrooms and balcony. For architectural detail on the building frame, they changed and coloured doors and they try to use different type of doors on building such as glazed door or wooden one. Moreover, the colour of building is also changed and mostly aluminium shutters are used for windows. Furthermore, for landscape usage, most of the owners used open space as garden and decorated by bushes with flowers and grape trees that are also used for shading in parking area and the rest in the gardens. Most of the units, gardens are covered with mosaic and ceramic. Furthermore, most of the houses got canopy with table and chairs. Especially for warm and hot weather these spaces are used for different usages. The garden boundaries are included either iron or concrete barriers and some are designed nicely by shrubs. At last but not least, all units got satellite, split unit and water tank for hot or cold water and some of them got solar panels as fixtures. Keywords: Social housing, Personalization, Identity, Sakarya District Famagusta. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………