Abstract:

This paper aims at analyzing space-user relations in complex multi-storey structures in the light of integration and connectivity measures derived from space syntax technique. A complex structure, Suleyman Demirel University Hospital which represents an unknown for its users, was taken as the sampling area. Considering hospital circulation spaces under scope the research was realized in three stages. The first stage was spatial analysis of accessibility patterns by using space syntax measures. The second stage was behavioral analysis for determining impacts of behavioral variables observed. And the final stage was cognitive analysis to review impacts of variables in space cognition. In the research stages, the analyses of routes reached during open and directed explorations with own data of space were compared throughout behavioral analyses. As per cognitive analyses, the data obtained from the maps of cognition were compared to the data of space. Conclusions suggest that the areas with high integration and connectivity are determined as key factors of learning and gathering knowledge in the space; these factors are even of great significance particularly in learning local space information. It is envisaged that users have preferred the areas with high connectivity and integration whenever they felt lost in the space.

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