3. Meso-space behavior: Home Base
•Definition
The home base of any animal contains its nesting area, a secure
position for performing vulnerable behaviors such as sleeping, raising
young, and grooming.
4. "Good fences make good neighbors“- Robert Frost
• Home sweet home;
• Home is where the heart is;
• There’s no place like
home…
• Men are merriest when they
are away from home;
• Home is a girl’s prison and
the woman’s workhouse;
5. Home
•Definition and difference with “House”
•“A dwelling is built to contain not only the human body and its actions but
also our minds- our thoughts, dreams, memories etc.”
Juhani Pallasama
•It is a territorial unit which provides territorial satisfactions in terms
of:
• Security
• Identity
• Stimulation
7. Identity
“Home is the universal archetypal symbol of the self”- C. G. Jung
For the house he had built for himself, he regarded as- “a symbol of
psychic wholeness”.
Public Street | Public Domain
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8. Household studies
The social unit that lives in a house is called “household”.
A household is
•the most basic social unit
•a co-residential group consisting of
• a single person or
• a nuclear or
• an extended family or
• unrelated persons or
• any combination of the above
A family is within the household. Those members of the household who
are related to a specified degree through blood, adoption or
marriage, constitute the family.
9. Factors to consider for understanding of a particular household:
•Patterns of work:
• paid or
• domestic
•Type of community of which the household is a part of
• Rural
• Urban
• Suburban
• Village
• Town
• Neighborhood distances
• Life outside home
• People’s stage in lifecycle; i.e.; their age
• Gender
10. Household studies
•Criteria of co residence in defining household unit
•Sharing same residence is argued to be central to social and economic
cooperation amongst members of domestic groups
•Activity area : links of pattern of social behavior to spatial organization
•Increasing complexity of society leading to stratification and mono-
functional spaces
•Gender relations in society: women’s life-cycle (child birth,
menstruation, divorce, separation) are represented and experienced in
the built environment. Domestic space becomes specialized by sex.
Eg.- purdah system
11. Ethno-archaeology
•It is the ethnographic study of peoples for archaeological reasons;
done usually through the study of material remains of a society.
•It also helps archaeologists reconstruct ancient lifestyles by studying
material & non-material traditions of modern societies.
Study of
•Sizes of dwellings, their location within the settlement
•Distribution of luxury items, belongings, specific goods
•Study of burials, their contents & sizes
12. Ethno-archaeological studies
•Coincidence of physical form to social organization
•Explanation of Cross-cultural variation of built form through social
organization
•Intra-cultural variation of built form
•Dwelling form and size as indicators of social make up: size, shape,;
clusters, round square etc.
•Relation of household wealth to form
13. Definition of Culture
•Relation of culture to symbols. Universality of symbols having similar
meanings.
Hence importance of following studies could be established:
•Social symbolic accounts which emphasize how built forms express
and produce a political or social structure
•Structuralist approaches to the built form
•Ritualistic approaches to the built environment
14. Dwelling prototypes:
•Ephemeral or Transient: nomadic, band type societies
•Episodical: nomadic, band type societies
•Periodic: more pastoral economy within a nomadic social structure
•Seasonal: semi-nomadic existence for marginal cultivation pursuits
•Semi-permanent: sedentary folk societies that practice subsistence
cultivation
•Permanent: advanced agricultural economies
Editor's Notes
Personal space was a mobile bubble. We carry it with ourselves all the time. Home base is a static place where one comes back at the end of the day to sleep.
Don’t forget where it features in Maslow’s Hierarchy of needs
Bachelard (1994),explained that all of us, remember the feeling of moving to new home, and live there, but at first the new place, is unpleasant and unknown when time passes, we get used to live there and using its facilities as a house which seems we have lived there for an entire life. We can find comfort and relaxation in there, when we arrive there, we can be ourselves .So what is the reason. Why is comfort there? He answered that; home is made of surrounding interior space and free exterior space. Interior space is the same as the private or secret part of human that is unpleasant to be observed in society. On the other hand, exterior space is that self we choose for showing to others. (Bachelard 1994)
