Investigation of the Concept of Mobility in the Housing by Luxury Housing Sites in Konya

Abstract

The housing that meets the need for living, which is a vital need, is considered along with concepts such as socialization, development of belonging and family formation. Individuals, due to the connection they have established with their homes, have installed phenomenological meanings such as houses, nests, hearths. Therefore, it is insufficient to express the housing as a physical space. Housing is affected by changes in society and individuals throughout their lives and needs to meet user requirements. Today's technological and economic developments lead to a change in the social life of the society, differentiation of life styles of individuals, formation of different user profiles / types, changes in family life and differentiation of user actions in houses. However, today's housing being built cannot meet different user requirements. Gated communities which are the result of these new searches; with security measures and built limits, it offers its residents a new way of life; it also separates them from other parts of the city, with emphasis on security and exclusivity. Accelerating trend since the 1990s, the site in Turkey, Konya has become widespread since the early 2000s. These sites, which are unrelated to the city center and urban life, have presented a new life concept within their borders, started to change the city and the city life, forget the place context in the housing design. The place, which is the most important data in architectural design, is ignored in such sites. From this point of view, this study aims to investigate why outward luxury sites are preferred, including examples of spatial and social segregation separated from its context and the concept of mobility in housing in the case of Konya city. Within the scope of the study, two external closed security sites in Beyhekim neighborhood of Konya city were selected and the reasons of mobility were determined by surveying the reasons of the users living on the site and why they preferred these sites and why they were not satisfied with the houses they lived in the past. In recent years, on the agenda of architecture; The relationship of the concepts of mobility, placelessness, and lack of sense of belonging, with the sheltering culture, has been demonstrated through externally gated community. It is analyzed why users living on security sites prefer these sites.