Student:	Funda KURAK AÇICI
Supervisor:	Assoc. Prof. Dr. İlkay ÖZDEMİR
Department:	Mimarlık
Institution:	Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences
University:	Karadeniz Technical University Turkey

Title of the Thesis:	THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN THE CONCEPT OF BOUNDARY AND INNER SPACES: SAMPLE OF LIVING SPACES
Level:	Ph.D.
Acceptance Date:	8/3/2013
Number of Pages:	179
Registration Number:	Di942

Summary:

lives, in the life itself in every scale and in physical, sensible, and perceptible and in concrete or abstract

philosophy, architecture. Our purpose is to handle these boundaries in terms of space, which is an important

part of architecture. Boundary is one of the most important concepts that human beings have always made

use of during establishing living spaces and settlements unconsciously or sometimes consciously for

allocating different functions to their living space, and for dividing their place as sub-spaces and using them

as functional spaces. For this reason, we aim to determine the border-space relationship by choosing

residence samples where the inner design in determined by the people and where people feel the most

comfortable. For this purpose, especially in the first chapter, we emphasize the architecture displays in order

the boundary concept to be understood; making the language and boundary concepts understandable; and

especially emphasize the semiotics for boundary concept to become understandable in terms of

denotation/connotations. The meaning (denotation/connotation) of boundary in dictionary, the concept of

boundary in history, boundary-space-human relations; personification in perception-cognition and behavioral

system, privacy, domination area and boundaries of residence are studied and classifications are made in the

house scale. In the second chapter, we performed a pre-questionnaire with 50 academicians for the purpose of

“What is boundary in inner spaces” were classified and a new questionnaire was performed. On the samples

we formed an analysis chart to be able to analyze the inner spaces. In the third chapter we studied the

detached house and housing estates in terms of plan-sequence-vision in all over Turkey and chose 30 samples

and analyzed them. In the fourth chapter, we studied the classifications on the concept of boundary in inner

spaces in terms of vertical and horizontal concepts, and we applied our findings on specified samples. In the

conclusion part, all the studies performed on the concept of boundary are assessed and the results from the

examined samples are commented and recommendations are made.

Key Words: Boundary, Semiotics, Denotation, Connotation, Housing, Inner Spaces, Living Space