The document discusses different types of outdoor spaces around homes and factors that influence their design. It notes that outdoor spaces need to accommodate lifestyle needs like agriculture or provide breathing room in dense urban areas. The size and uses of outdoor space helps determine population density. Housing developers aim to maximize building density while planners try to control it. The document also discusses designing outdoor spaces for different family activities and how natural site conditions like slopes and winds can influence space design.

1. Outdoors of home environment
 We need open spaces around our homes
 The proportion and function of outdoors around
homes is determined by our life styles.
 People living with agriculture and animal husbandry
need more open space
 People living with industrial work or services also
need open spaces but they are packed in tight
settlements in cities.

2.  Yayla, every where is animal garzing land

3.  Detached home
within agricultural
land.

4.  Row houses were first form of dense
neighborhoods in industrialized cities...

5.  Row houses have a minimum outdoor space at
the front and at the back of the dwelling unit.
 It is “breathing area” for the neighborhood, air
can flow through buildings.
 It is also a functional and recreational area for
people.
 Proportion of outdoor areas determine the
population density for the neighborhoods.
 Size of building site / Size of built space this
is the ratio which have impact on determining
the urban character.
 In Turkish it is KAKS and TAKS !

6.  Because there is high demand for housing in
our cities,
 Housing developers' commetial interest is to get
maximum KAKS and TAKS,
 Planning autorities try to control density by
applying limits to KAKS and TAKS numbers.
 However it doesn't guarantee the quality of
outdoor spaces.

7.  KAKS is the
ratio of
built area/lot area
Here it is 1:1

8.  Here both
KAKS and TAKS are
1: 0,5

9.  KAKS is 1:1 but
 TAKS is 1: 0,5

10.  What is the ratio here
?

11.  Now, in this case
some things are
wrong!...
 It is difficult to plan
interiors
 Building cast large
shadows to streets
or neighboors
 Air flow is effected.

12.  With such limitations planners control
QUANTITIES of outdoors.
 These issues will be further discussed in city
planning curses, our purpose is to discuss
QUALITIES of outdoors.
 In planning outdoors,
 Public or private ownership
 Activities it accomodate
 Directions, size and topography
 Hard and soft elements...., are important

13.  Outdoors in domestic
context are
 Privately owned in
detached or row
houses.
 Collectively owned in
housing estates

14.  Design of
outdoors in such
estates are
usually for better
marketability.

15.  If we have to plan outdoors for needs of a
particular family, which activities we may
include ?
 Child play
 Outdoor living, dining and sometimes sleeping
 House work (laundry drying, carpet washing,...)
 Hobby gardening, pleasure gardening
 Car parking
 Recreational and sportive activities.

16.  The size of site dictate us the the choice of
activities
 We may have breakfast are and dinner area
seperately, inaccordance with
sun/shade/summer/winter/changing view,....,
situations.
 For pleasure garden we may have lawn, terraced
flower beds,rock gardens,cascaded water or still
water,...,
 Child play changes with age,....,
 Movement of Sun changes but in constant cyles

17. At a spot on northern hemisphere

18.  Shade cast by same
vertical object moves
during day, we can
use it.

19. Dominant
winds for
İstanbul
POYRAZ
LODOS
Climatic conditions are also effected by winds

20.  POYRAZ freezes us in winter but prefered in
summer. It brings fresh cool air.
 LODOS is disturbing when very strong, but
pleasant as a breeze. Always charged with
positive electricity , therefore disturbing to us.
 Each region have its own favorable and
disturbing winds.

21. No land is perfectly flat
 Ground always have countours formed by
natural forces, smooth or steep.
 People think it is easy to build on flat areas,
therefore dig out grounds.
 But it is risky to disturb natural countours of land
because it may cause land slides (toprak
kayması)
 Flow of underground water may be disturbed
(yer altı suyunun akışı)

22.  Some of the
most beautiful
settlements
are on sloping
sites

23.  Slopes give us
spatial varriety,
changing views
and directions,
therefore different
outdoor zones are
created.

24.  A building should
not fight against
sloped topography
 It should make
use of it.
 Multiple levels
enriches outdoors

25.  Even on a flat
site people try to
create this
diversity.

26.  Instead of large
cut and fills, it is
easy to create
levels on ground
with small
changes

27.  Or more
built-up
levels

28.  All additions we do in out doors are landscaping
 Hard landscaping is built up
 Soft landscaping consist of plants and water
 Plants are for ground covering
 Space defining, border making
 Colouring
 Landmarking

29.  Since 1960 ies population flow from small towns
to large cities
 Dense settlemets in large cities
 High rised living
Made us almost to forget outdoor living....
Only a hundred years ago we had a higher
culture of garden life.

30. ABALI TB.I,3 30
A konak in old Çankırı

31. ABALI TB.I,3 31
• This is not home of a ruling elite family of İstanbul but
home of the judge (kadı efendi) of remote town.
• As can be seen, the owners of the Konak enjoyed a lot
of outdoor living and rich spatial experience (zengin
mekansal deneyim).
• How did lives of people changed and why were konaks
abondened ?
• How are the dream home images in modern Turkish
people`s minds ?

34. ABALI TB.I,3 34
A konak in old Çankırı