The implication of spatial-dispersion theory in housing genotypes of Boushehri historic and contemporary houses

Abstract

Home has always been an important topic in research. In each region, houses change over time under different economic, social, cultural, climatic, and other conditions. Although these gradual changes have occurred to improve the spatial conditions of houses, it has led to a decline in the environmental quality and sometimes their technical efficiency. It is possible to redefine contemporary housing by spatially analyzing houses and discovering genotypes in a particular climate. This study uses space syntax algorithms in the syntactic plugin in Grasshopper to conduct various analyses and combine them with visual analysis extracted from Depth Map. House genotypes are discovered by factor analysis in SPSS. The case study is the coastal and historical city of Bushehr in the south of Iran. The sample size is 45 houses from three historical periods selected by non-random purposeful sampling. The results indicate that the houses in Bushehr have four genotypes, each of which has positive characteristics that can be generalized to contemporary housing architecture.

Evaluation of the Spatial Quality of Apartments from Different Price Categories Using the Visibility Graph Analysis: A Case of Tirana, Albania

“…Hight visibility corresponds with the high visual control, high exposure of space and low privacy, while low visibility is typical for the hidden spaces, which are more private and remote from the main dwelling spaces. VGA allows to estimate not only the visual privacy, but also the audio privacy, olfactory privacy, and circulation and psychological privacy (Nadoomi et al, 2022). The development of visual barriers protecting the intimate areas of the house is a result of cultural interference.…”