建筑学专业外文中英文翻译建筑设计空间中的语法.doc

建筑学专业外文翻译--建筑设计空间中的语法 SPACE SYNTAX IN ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN Design is a sophisticated cognitive activity. In architecture, this activity begins by generating an abstract idea and continues by transforming it to concrete spatial formations. Whether it is called as “image” Alexander, 1964, “primary generator” Darke, 1984, “conjecture” Hillier, et al., 1984, “organising principle” Rowe, 1987 or concept Lawson, 2003 all refers to the same: the idea that makes an architectural design unique or different from all others. Finding a unique way in which spaces are formulated to reflect these ideas constitutes the next step of design activity; in other words to find a way to transform these abstract ideas into spatial formations. By generating different proposals and testing them, the architect consolidates his/her ideas or re-defines them in order to gain satisfied spatial formations. This paper investigates the research theme by focusing on: 1. Design activity itself, its nature and architectural design process, 2. Space syntax itself, its main idea and its role in architectural ractice. Space syntax is theory of space and a set of analytical, quantitative and descriptive tools for analysing the spatial formations in different forms: buildings, cities, interior spaces or landscapes Hillier and Hanson, 1984, Hillier, 1996. Main interest of space syntax is the relation between human beings and their inhabited spaces. It is believed that distinctive characteristics of societies exist within spatial systems, and their knowledge is conveyed through space itself, and through the organisation of spaces Dursun and Saglamer, 2003. Space Syntax calls this relational characteristic of space as configuration and proposed the idea that it is this characteristic forms the human behaviour thus contains the social knowledge. The aim of space syntax research is to develop strategies of description for configuring inhabited spaces in such a way that the underlying social meaning ca