BODY - SPACE TENSION: Mapping / Decoding bodily experience with space syntax

身体-空间张力： 空间句法映射与身体经验解码

BÜŞRA BALABAN；MERT ZAFER KARA ；PELİN DURSUN ÇEBİ

Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Architecture；Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Architecture；Istanbul Technical University, Faculty of Architecture.

伊斯坦布尔工业大学建筑学院；伊斯坦布尔工业大学建筑学院；伊斯坦布尔工业大学建筑学院

KEYWORDS :Living Body, Performative Space, Body-Space Tension, Cognitive Maps, Space Syntax

关键字：活的身体，行为空间，身体-空间张力，认知地图，空间句法

本文来自于第十二届空间句法北京会议，文件夹“Behaviour Cognition”，序号87

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Abstract

摘要

Body, as a whole of senses, can be defined as a receptor due to its inherent features as perceiving, experiencing and having potentials of behavior. At the same time, body generates and transforms a new type of space within the space it exists.  Besides, space is not positioned as a passive element either; it is the equal and active partner of the body that can shrink and expand with bodily effects. Therefore, body and the space in relation cannot be thought separately. They identify each other over and over again. The living body is inevitably garbled with the environment it lives, and it creates its own space. The ‘tension’ between body and space appears as the leading actor of their interrelation.

身体作为感官的集合，由于其具有感知、体验和具有行为潜能的内在特征，可以被定义为接受器。同时，身体在它所存在的空间中生成并转换一种新型的空间。此外，空间也不是一个被动的元素;它是身体平等积极的伙伴，可以缩小和扩大身体影响。因此，身体与空间的关系是不能被分开考虑的。它们一遍遍地相互识别。生命体不可避免地与它存在的环境混淆，并且创造出自己的空间。身体与空间之间的“张力”是二者相互关系的主角。

This research is based on an experimental case study that aimed to discover the body-space tension by using syntactic analyzes, which was prepared for an undergraduate course entitled “Architectural Morphology” in Istanbul Technical University, 2017. It differs from the idea that regards space only as a physical shell and aspires to analyze the space that the body identifies and experiences with the senses, by using both cognitive and analytical methods. ITU Faculty of Architecture, Taşkışla Building, was chosen as the field of study. Within this context, the principal questions were the following: What is the possible movement pattern of Taşkışla? / How can this pattern vary with the bodily experience? / What is the meaning of this variation for body-space tension? / How does Space Syntax contribute to analyzing this tension, as a scientific method? / How does bodily experience, cognitive maps and space syntax contribute to each other?

本研究基于2017年伊斯坦布尔工业大学本科生课程“建筑形态学”的实验案例研究，旨在通过句法分析来发现身体—空间张力。它不同于将空间仅仅看作一个物理外壳，并希望通过认知和分析方法来分析身体由感官识别和体验的空间。ITU建筑学院的Taşkışla建筑被选为该领域的研究。在这种背景下,主要是以下问题：Taşkışla可能的运动模式是什么?/这种模式如何随身体体验而变化?/身体-空间张力变化的意义是什么?/作为一种科学方法，空间句法如何有助于分析这种张力?/身体体验、认知地图和空间句法是如何相互作用的?

As a first step to study, to discover how bodies restructure the space, a performative experience in Taşkışla was recorded. The movements and traces of the performers’ bodies were conceptualized as a new type of space which the body created by changing the routine use of their bodies, changing the everyday movement pattern and thinking their bodies as a receptor. Performers investigated the space by their bodies throughout a particular route in the building. The process is followed by externalizing the narratives of the performances as cognitive maps. To be able to search body-space tension, interpreted cognitive maps were compared with the analysis of routine movement by using syntactic tools. Having scientific and visual data on both cases, the properties of the space which are considered as invisible or non-discursive were made debatable. Different results from two separate cases on the same space showed us the substantial effect of body-space interaction. 

作为研究的第一步，为了探索身体如何重组空间，一个表述行为的经验在Taşkışla中被记录。表现身体的动作和痕迹被概念化为一种新的空间类型，通过改变身体的常规用途和日常的运动模式，并将身体视为一种接受器。表现在建筑的特定路线上就是用身体研究空间。这一过程之后是将表现的叙述外化为认知地图。为了能够探究身体—空间张力，我们使用句法工具将解释认知地图与常规运动分析进行了比较。在这两种情况下都有科学和视觉数据，空间的属性被认为不可见或非离散是有争议的。同一空间上两种不同情况的不同结果说明了身体-空间相互作用的实质作用。

As a result of this study, indicating the dynamic relationship between body and space, it is understood the importance of layering the analysis for perceiving and conceptualizing the space. This multi-layered analyzing process can enhance the bodily way of knowing and syntactic methods, mutually. This research system that provides varied viewpoints can open up new horizons to think on a space.

作为本研究的结果，指出的身体与空间之间的动态关系，我们可以认识到分层分析对空间认知与概念化的重要性。这种多层次的分析过程可以使认知的身体方式和句法方法相互增强。这种提供不同观点的研究体系，可以为思考空间开拓新的视野。

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