Abstract:
Organization of living environment is possible through a clear definition of private and public arenas and determination of a spatial hierarchy. Such defined arenas increase the sense of belonging to the environment which personalizes residential environments. Enclosure is among the quantities that play a significant role in defining the spaces. In fact, enclosure is the factor that defines a space as a ground for occurrence of other events. Enclosure is an individual subjective ground to define the space and the primary factor in conversion of space into place. One of the basic
functions of a house is to determine a territory. This paper considers the concept of territory as an effective factor on the quality of the relationship between the human and his residential environment and investigates the effect of enclosure on this territory. Two residential areas including a part of Haft-Hoz neighborhood and Shahrak-e Gharb (West Town) were selected as the sample of the test. The effects of enclosure factor on the concept of territory were analyzed in
common residential complexes. A qualitative research method was applied and questionnaire was used as the scientific method. According to the belief that the relationship between human and the environment depends on many different factors, this paper investigates and analyzes the concept of territory and spatial enclosure as one of the effective factors on the quality of the relationship between human and residential environment in the mentioned neighborhoods.
Machine summary:
"Three main scales are recognizable in categorization of effective human-environmental factors in physical design of complexes: First, the external link with the adjacent environment; the most important issue is to create a link between them and the existing physical texture and develop open areas; Second, internal relation of complexes and the communications outside the units; establishing and keeping balance between privacy and social interaction, how to give a sense of security, orientation and pedestrian access, vehicular access and considering suitable stations are among the important matters of design in this scale.
The issue of designing and building residential towns is widely discussed; therefore, this chapter proceeds to describe the most important arenas and different aspects of urban and residential spaces (neighborhood, street network, threshold, and residential space), since the determining their location and separating each of them from the others has a significant role in the creation of a clear hierarchy in family’s privacy and territory.
Therefore, considering the stronger sense of public territory in Haft-Hoz compared to West Town, it can be said that the most important factor that increase the sense of security and privacy among the residents of a residential complex, is the intermediate space between primary and secondary territories the possibility of violation goes up, and the owner of these territories would have to take special and expensive actions in order to define, manage and defend them."