The application of formal aesthetics by architects and interior architects according to their own ranking performances

Abstract

ABSTRACT: A prominent architect stipulated that humans experience the world in two basically in logical and aesthetic manner. The Aesthetics is the philosophical study of art and natural beauty and an aesthetic indicates normally to the feelings of pleasure or displeasure that comes from visual or aural artefact. (Korsmeyer, 2004)As such, aesthetics is visually dependent on things, which can be either significant or insignificant. Aesthetics is merely any current standard of beauty. This thesis first introduces the idea of aesthetics and outlines the different formal aesthetic elements. The first chapter will state the purpose of the study, outline the problem statement and then the methodology, which will be used to analyse the matter. The aim of this research is to get the most remarkable element of formal aesthetic (form, colour, light, texture) by creation a list of aesthetic elements and collecting the opinions of architects and interior architects regarding their preferences as to the degree of relevance and applicability of each element in the design of either a house or a restaurant. This work will attempt to distinguish the best classification by either the architect or interior architect in selecting a list of preferences when designing a house or a restaurant. And this research shows the correlation between architects and interior architects. The second chapter gives a concise explanation of the terms “aesthetics” and “beauty”. A brief history about the origin and evolution of these terms will also be discussed. Chapter three will explain in detail the different design and aesthetic principles (scale, balance, proportion, unity, contrast, character, rhythm) while chapter four gives a detailed description of the five formal aesthetic elements (form, colour, light, texture, shadow). Chapter five analyse the different preferences made by both the architect and interior architect when making decisions on what design element they prioritize when designing a house or a restaurant. The total number of architects that completed the questionnaire is 80 divided equally into two groups of 40 architects and 40 interior architects. The reason that there are 40 architects in each group is that the number of architects in the two groups had to be identical in order to make statistical correlation possible. Furthermore, the reason that the number of architects in groups is limited by 40, is that it was not possible to find more than 40 interior architects to take part in the project. The questionnaire seeks to determine the priority of five formal aesthetic (form, colour, texture, light and shadow) according to architects and interior architects. The importance of the formal aesthetics in two different subjects of house and restaurant are going to be prioritized according to the architects and interior architects that took part in this project. The subjects (house and restaurant) were chosen due to the fact that these subjects attract more attention from the interior architecture point of view than other subjects do in North Cyprus. The degree of correlation and significant considerations taken by both architects and interior architects when considering the design of either a house or a restaurant will be analysed. When a house is chosen as the subject in question, the architect and interior architects share some views when it comes to colour and form. Both elements have an 89.8% and 97.8% positive correlation. Also there is a very strong correlation of 99.14% for both architects and interior architects to regard shadow as the element of least preference. Light and texture portray very weak correlations of 26.7% and 5.9% respectively in the rank of importance for designing a house. And also when a restaurant is the subject, both the architect and the interior architect look upon the form, lighting and texture in a like manner. These high correlation coefficients of 91.9%, 87.8% and 83.2% show strong correlation in the reasoning for both of them. There also is a 99.5% that shadow is last choice for both of them. Colour is only weakly correlated with a 55.2% coefficient of correlation on the ranking of this element. From the information derived from the data collected, it shows that architects and interior architects think alike in most situations when considering the design of a restaurant. After analysing the data we will therefore draw inference on how these preferences are ranked, in chapter six is conclusion about correlation between architects and interior architects we will end by making a few recommendations in which other interested researchers can focus.

Keywords: Aesthetic, beauty, Formal aesthetic, Interior architecture, Design elements, correlation.

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ÖZ: Konu ve estetik ile ilgili genel bilgiler verildıkten sonra birinci bölümde amaca bağlı promlem kurgusu ve meteoloji açıklanmıştır.İkinci bölümde estetik ve güzellik tartışılmıştır.Üçüncü ve dördüncü bölümde formal estetik temel ögeleri forum renk doku aydınlatma.Gölge uzerinde örneklerle durularak ,Tasarım formal estetik prensipleri :ölçek denge oran propersiyon birlik karakter ritim acıklanmıştır.Beşinci bölumde alan çalışmalası açıklanmıştır.Mimar ve iç mimarların ev ve restauorant tasarımlarında formal estetik öğelerinden hangisi ne öncelikle verdikleri araştırılmıştır.Hazırlanan tercih listesinde 40 iç mimar ve 40 mimarla anket yapılmıştır.Tercihler arasında korelesyon olup olmadıgı araştırılmış. Yapılan değerlenme sonucunda ev tasarımlarında´form tercihlerini yüksek karelasyon %97,8 renk tercihi yüksek karelasyon %89,8 verilmiştir. Gölge de karelasyon bulunmamıştır, aydınlatma ve doku ise zayıf karelasyon %26,7. Restaurant tasarım aışk ıse bıcım %91,9 aydınlatma %87,8 ve doku %83,2 yüksek karelasyon verilmiştir renk ıse zayıf karelasyon vermıstır %55,2 . Bu veriler göz önüne alındiğinda mimar ve iç mimarların formal estetik öncelik tercihleri diğer bina türleri ıçinde araştırma yapılabilir.

Anhtlar kelemiler: Estetik, güzellik, formal estetik, İç mimari, tasarım öğeleri, korelasyon.