“Neighborhood” Concept and the Analysis of Differentiating Sociological Structure with the Change of Dwelling Typology

Abstract

“Neighborhood” concept – which is seen in all cultures even in different shapes and under different definitions – is a sub-public area where the most concrete and original form of neighborliness take place and social cooperation and organization are possible. The neighborhood fabric – shaped in decisiveness of geographical structure and culture in every society – exhibits a respectful and conservative structure shaped with privacy fact in Anatolia's traditional structure. The neighborliness relations in this fabric depend on ownership, belonging, tolerance and respect. The separation of neighborhood concept from its traditional meaning began with the change of the physical fabric forming the neighborhood; the effect of belonging sense on neighborhood citizens became argumentative. The physical and sociological analysis of the change in neighborhood fabric having a certain identity by the means of studio housing in Konya (Turkey) form the subject of this study. The housing preferences and the variations in housing options started to show differences in especially the last 10 years in Konya (Turkey). Studio houses among the different housing options started to be built in succession in the areas close to the university settlements. Building studio houses with the aim of investment and making profit, especially in detached housing areas which are given one or two floors within a garden in the development plan and make us read the neighborhood concept in a certain identity, increases the user density in square meter and the number of morphologically and contextually inconsistent examples in the fabric. The spatial characteristics of houses, their relationships with neighbor houses and parcels disrupt usual order and number of negative examples rapidly increases. This change in physical structure changes the resident profile in the neighborhood and diversifies it. The lived/will be lived change with new formation begins to change the sociological structure in existing fabric. In this study, the physical change in sociological structure will be analyzed with different user profile scenarios. While the residents of studio houses have individual life, traditional house residents have nuclear family or wide family structure. The sociological structure exposed by this major difference is tried to be given with the focus of physical structure in this study.