BEHAVIOR SETTING STUDIES
HUMAN BEHAVIOR AND THE SPACE DESIGN
Ø ENVIRONMENT
- it can be (1) human – environment studies
(2) social
ecology
(3) human
factors
(4)
behavioral architecture
(5)
programming
·
the research aspect is often called:
(1)
environmental psychology
(2)
user needs study
(3)
social and behavioral factors
·
environment – behavior study contain more than function:
(1)
circulation flow
(2)
proximities
(3)
dimensional concerns
·
behavioral factor go deeper to the psychology of the user, how he perceives:
(1)
building form
(2)
social interaction needs
(3)
sub cultural differences in lifestyle
(4)
meaning and symbolism of building
(5)
technology
Ø SCOPE OF
ENVIRONMENT STUDIES
1.
user groups
- different user groups have different need and use
patterns, they are affected in different ways by the quality of the environment,
user group maybe socially differentiated into:
income,
ethnicity, age, special interest group, urban/rural, informal dwellers,
squatters/slam dwellers
2.
environmental – behavior phenomena
- this is looking at the aspect of human behavior in
relation to everyday physical environments.
·
Proxemics – are the different distances between people that we considered
comfortable for social interaction. This shows distinct distances: intimate, personal,
social and public
·
Privacy, density and crowding
a. privacy –
is an inter personal control mechanism that faces and regulates interactions
with others. It is the chain of individuals, groups or institutions to control
access to themselves and what information about them may be allowed to be
communicated.
b. density –
is a measure of number of people per unit of space
c. crowding
– is psychological or an environment – behavior concept which refers to the
experience of being hemmed in, locked, or frustrated by the presence of too
many people.
Ø PERSONAL SPACE
- it is a specific environment
behavior concept. It is a small invisible, protective sphere or bubble that an
organism
carries about
- the individual personal space is
dynamite, it changes its dimension, stress and anxiety can result from
intrusion
Ø TERRITORIALITY
- refer to a group of behavior that a person will
personalized, marked, owned, defend, unlike personal space, territories do not
move, they have five defining characteristics:
(1)
people will defended if violated by intruders
(2)
they are marked in either a concrete or symbolic ways
(3)
they satisfy some needs or motives
(4)
they are owned control or processed by an individual or group
(5)
they contain spatial area
Ø DEFENSIVE SPACE
- it is an extension of the concept
of territoriality, characteristics of space not make it more defensible.
