The Relationship between attachment to places and environmental images of "self and home" with special reference to architects designed houses

Abstract

Architecture is mother of all Arts. There is more close relationship in between day today life and architecture. People are living, dining and all over entire life activities in birth and dead functioning within built environment. Therefore architecture has great contribution on human behaviour as it is "All about relationships; Socio spatial relationships"(Habraken, 1983). The primary place where this relationship basically happens in a house, house is an Architectural place where family is happening. That family gives meaning to that house as a home. And there will be a deep rooted relationship of person who belongs to that home, the relationship of self and home. In order to provide 'Home' for people, one has to understood what constitutes a 'Home' and the essential difference between "House' and 'Home', in doing so it was observed that the creation of home environments with reference to psychological, social and cultural variables enabled the formulation of key attributes, which together help in the creation of whole. As a result of these relationships people, according to there individual self, strong relationship manifested as attachment to place, it is not only to his or her home, but for day to day places, nature etc ... "Environmental Images" are such deep rooted ingredient of attachment to places which goes under an untouchable, a non existing concept of place. Therefore Environmental memories or supposed environmental image playa major role in architecture and its related fields. Therefore it is a most need thing, as an Architects to understand how this deep rooted relationship plays when making home for different kind of people and how to crystallize their image of dream, while shape up with Architects involvement in home making process.