Exploring Body’s Potentials in Everydayness of the City: Architectural Design Studio Experience

Year 2025, Volume: 7 Issue: 2, 341 - 358, 15.12.2025

Gamze Şensoy Torun , Osman Tutal

https://doi.org/10.46474/jds.1758196

Abstract

The designed space dictating a certain behavior is an element that triggers the body's desire to create its own experience. These actions towards what is designed are valuable in terms of bringing a new perspective to the long debated concept of space, as well as being an important aspect that shapes the dynamic structure of urban context. In this sense, it is predicted that thinking about the body-space relationship that is thought to exist between the designed space and life and enriches the urban content by triggering new experience possibilities; will help in re-conceptualizing space.

The aim of the study is to search for the correspondences of the re-conceptualized space in terms of form through the reactions produced towards the static through the unpredictability and uncertain character of the body. Additionally, the search where their spatial perspectives can evolve is also the secondary purpose. In this context, the body's resistance to form, its production of its own space, and the relations between designed and changing space were discussed in the 2nd-year Architectural Design Studio. 11 projects produced during the studio process were evaluated according to the formation of form, and four tendencies were observed: 'dissociation of form,' 'augmentation of form,' 'translocation of form,' and 'transformation of form.' These tendencies were discussed in terms of the learning outcomes of the studio which are concept-form relationship, spatial interaction and spatial responsiveness. In light of the findings, it emerged that students could reflect the variability of body-space relationships in their form productions. However, they had not yet developed an awareness of how material and environmental factors could affect the variability of space.

Keywords

Architectural design , Bodily experience , Everydayness of the city , Space

Ethical Statement

Ethics committee approval was not required for this study. And also permissions were obtained from all students for their work to be included in this article, and these permissions were documented. Documents have been uploaded to the submission system.

Supporting Institution

The authors declare that this study has not received any financial support.

Thanks

We would like to thank the students with whom we conducted the project studio process together: Asu Yıldırım, Burak Kınık, Ceren Yeşildağ, Huriye Aleyna Karkuş, İlayda Didem Sayman, Mehmet Kemal Doğan, Mejra Rebronja, Neslihan Okur, Rabia Gedik, Şilan Alkaş, Şule Bilge. We also would like to thank Buse Bölek Açıkgöz and Tuna Torun for their valuable contributions in the project juries.

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