Enclosure of Outdoor Spaces in a Residential Environment Between Visibility and Accessibility

Abstract

This article attempts to study the impact of spatial intelligibility and the visual perception of the user on his habitat and focuses on how the inhabited space is experienced, practiced, and appropriated by its inhabitants through the study of concepts affecting the habitability and use of outdoor spaces in the residential environment based on the space syntax approach. The aim is to measure the degree of visibility, spatial and visual accessibility, connectivity, and integration between one space and another. Once the diagnosis is made, it becomes possible to intervene to improve the visual characteristics of the urban fabric and landscape, towards a better fabric of the city. The results show that the living practices and the ways that the inhabitants appropriate and use the space are intimately linked to the use of visibility by the inhabitants according to the integration of the space in question, its intelligibility, permeability, and its accessibility. Ultimately, the visual perception of the landscape image of the residential environment and the use of space are too important and closely related parameters, they affect each other and are shaped mainly by the physical environment in which the resident lives. Keywords: Habitability, residential environment, enclosure, space syntax