User modifications in architecture : an examination of the above, through the concept of form & shape as manifested in architectural determinism

Abstract

In many situations, we can observe that the user, relevant to the form and shape relationship modifies most of the buildings. One important reason for this is, many of the place makers did not clearly defined the .form and shape when providing the individual spaces. Hence, most of them were lack of qualitative aspects. The uncomfortability or lack of necessary quantitative diminution destroys these qualitative aspects. In this regard the judgment of users of their built environment can be venerated as a significant feature in designing, better built environment and finding alternative strategies by studding the form and shape of the built environment. Therefore an attempt has been made in this research to analyze the housing scheme (low rise) and their quality of the built form relevant to the above factors through their modifier environment. It is hoped that this can be used or developed as a technique in assessing or in designing the built form that will be built in the future. The content of the study has been categorized into three chapters including two case studies. In the first chapter, background of the issue is discussed. The magnitude and contains of the place making are briefly described. This description has been more provision to collect the data of the architecture and its theoretical part. Therefore it considers the importance of practitioners intimate perceptions. And it generates introduction to the next chapter. Hence, chapter two is a descriptive explanation of the theoretical approach and the methodology adapted. In chapter three, the details of the analysis is introduced with selected settings for the study. Detail descriptions of the field work (how the pilot's test was carried out, how the components were derived from the finding of the pilot's test and from pre-conceived theoretical frame work, and how data was collected for the final research). It also included in the same chapter. Finally its analysis is discussed in the form of profiles by dividing them to relevant categories. Then the observation is described to reveal the findings upon which the conclusion has been drawn.