We went to Uçhisar and Zelve Valley to analyze that how human experiences are in connection with architectural elements. While we were studying, we just focused on human experiences, visual and spatial relations and also we examined the basic architectural elements that are human experience directed such as enclosure, opening, transparency and their effects on space. After these studying, we produced a catalog.
Tuz Gölü is the second largest lake in Turkey. It is located in the central Anatolia region. We observed salt lake. My observation about Tuz Gölü is that there were building at the entrance of the lake. After we passed through buildings, we saw a huge flat area. There were mountains but they were far away from the area we stand. In the morning, we saw horizon line and it attracted us and it made us think that there is a lake which is not dry. That’s why, we directly walked towards the horizon line. It was like both a boundary and a focal point. Because we did not know how it will be felt when we touch it. We decided to walk towards the horizon line instead of the mountains.
Our aim was to reach it but we could not go much far away from the beginning. While we were walking at the same time, we were experiencing the around so that it took much time but on our way back, we arrived in short time because we already had experienced the environment while going.
The sun, wind and sound were other experiences we had in the lake. In the first part of the lake, there was noise of vehicles which came from the road but the noise decreased progressively in the morning. Moreover, we were not able to hear each other clearly. However, in the night, the noise was less compared to the morning and we were able to hear each other clearly. In addition to these, the weather was cold because of wind condition in the morning. Wind comes from the northeast direction and when it comes from our behind, our speed increased so weather conditions affected our orientation. We were there about at 10 a.m. and that time walking towards the horizon line, while the sunlight was coming to our eyes and the wind was blowing behind us, was not easy.
Until we came to salty surface of lake, we experienced certain texture differentiations such as inside the buildings and in the transition part between buildings and lake. The surface inside the buildings was concrete floor. The transition part had vegetations and the lake had salty ground.
Lately Salt Lake is in great danger because of industrial pollution and wrong usage of under and over ground waters. This is threatening the lake itself but also flora and fauna of the area, which will definitely have a negative effect on the local inhabitants around the lake.
There is a kind of alg which is living under the lake and it is painting the lake pink.
References: www.allaboutturkey.com/tuzlake
We studied to continue horizontal surfaces as a group. After the our first models and the discussion , we focused possible universal variations on how horizontal surfaces can shape and orient human bodily experiences and how some experiences can relate to each other.
In our model, triangle represents human body. We produced triangle’s elevation based on human scale and big triangles represent number of people. We tried to show that how speed changes depends on number of people and space scales. In the narrow place, poeple’s movement gets slower and duration begin to increase and when people proceed from narrow place to wide place, they move faster. Therefore, number of people begin to incerase. The thickness of triangles shows that there is no movement. That’s mean people are sitting or standing in there.
Our instructor said that experience is not only architectural elements. Smell, sound and touching also are experience. Therefore, my group friends and me produced a abstract model of human bodily experience based on touching. While producing this model, we thought that how movement change when people climbing on stairs. They can hold on to stair rail.
Hi everyone! We come back for the second year. For our first assignment, we have studied and analyzed the Erimtan Museum and its nearby environment as a group which was given in the map by our instructors in terms of the horizontal surfaces that relate to the human experience of the space.
We were asked to produce a model in particular scale by focusing horizontal surfaces and we ignored everything else. Bodily experiences and visual relations of spaces were very important for this study. While we were observing in the Erimtan Museum, we measured spaces as possible as by using tape measure and our body.
We observed that how movement changed while climbing stairs or when people walked in narrow space (Museum’s upstairs), how their movement and duration changed. Where they were sitting and standing. How their directionality changed. Otherwise, we analyzed Erimtan Museum’s nearby environment by using our visual experiences. How density changed at indoors and outdoors based on number of people and their movements. After all of these analyzing, we thought that speed of movement changes depends on space’s scales and also number of people affects human’s speed and duration. As a result of these observations, we produced our model.
In our model, different levels show that density of movement. In the Museum, density is increasing based on using spaces. People can move much more in there to visit each floors compared to outdoor. That’s why, Erimtan Museum was showned higher than its environment on the model.
BÜŞRA ŞAFAK 