Airport Interiors

ISBN-13: 9783659207594 / Angielski / Miękka / 2012 / 308 str.

Melahat K. Karslan Emiro Lu

Opis

This book is an inquiry on airports regarding their values and potentialities as a medium for intercultural communication. This issue is taken as an interior design problem, implicitly, questioning significations of airports during spatial experience. In order to understand the meaning of airports in spatial experience of todays individual, the book encompasses a comprehensive survey of theoretical approaches towards the transformations in spatial experience in relation with contemporary technological developments. The meaning of airport is firstly questioned by the concept place and marked typical elements and images that cause airports as an exemplification of non-place. Secondly the meaning is investigated by the concept transition and defined as an intercultural transit space and in-between culture / space. The book proposes intercultural code model to be valued as a tool for interior design and ends up with a discussion of a case study conducted in Turkey.

O autorze

Dr. Melahat Küçükarslan Emiro lu studied Interior Architecture and Environmental Design at Bilkent University, Ankara. Completed her PhD at Hacettepe University, Ankara. Currently teaching as Assist. Professor in department of Interior Architecture at Beykent University, stanbul, Turkey.