Contents
Introduction 11
Aim, Objectives, Scope and Limitation 13
Research Methodology 14
1 Sociology of the Built Environment
1.1 Composition of the Built Environment 20
1.2 The Primitive Need of the Built Environment 21
1.3 Belongingness and Orientation 23
1.4 Through the lens of Human Behavior and Experience 26
1.5 Identifying the Socio-Cultural Aspects 28 .
1.6 The Constant and the Change in the Sociology of the Built Environment 30 .
1.7 Mechanisms of Change 32
1.8 The Dynamics of Social Friction 34
1.9 Translating the Intangible Sociology in Space 36
1.9.1 Proxemics
1.9.2 Chronemics
1.10 Inferring Relationships of the Intangible and their Translations 41
2 Production and Reproduction of Social Space
2.1 Introducing a Social Space 44
2.2 Social Space as a Social Product 46
2.3 Spatial Triad 48
2.4 Implications of the Lived Space 50
2.4.1 The Social Space and the Sociology
2.4.2 Th Objects and the Subjects of the Social Space
2.5 Subjectivity in the Lived Space 52
2.6 Reproduction of the Spatial Triad 54
2.7 Social Space of the Interior Design Discipline 56
2.8 Superimpositions in the Social Interior 59
2.9 Impact of Superimposed Interior Spaces 61
2.10 Inferring Relationships from the Reproduction
of Social Space 64
(i) Framework for Case study 68
(ii) Context of Ahmedabad 70
3 Case Studies
3.1 Conflictorium: Museum of Conflict 76
3.2 LxS Open House: Dhal ni Pol 104
3.3 Discourse 132
4 Deliverances of the Study
Synthesis of Theory 136
Outcomes 138 ..
Conclusion 141 .
Review Feedbacks 144
Bibliography 146
Appendices 152
Glossary 163