Investigation of Architect and Non-Architect Participants’ Perceptual Evaluations on Different Period Mosque Facades

Abstract

In architecture, perception based studies about building facades havebecome more popular. In recent studies, mostly residential buildings andbusiness center type of buildings had been selected as target buildings.The lack of study of the perception of the facades of religious structureshas created the basic motivation for this work. In the current study, thefacade features of (Seljuk period, Ottoman period and Republic period)some important mosques from different periods were evaluatedaccording to the adjective pairs of complexity, preference andimpressiveness variables. Also, whether or not the general views of themosques represent Islamic religion and their level of arousing curiositywere questioned. For this purpose, in the study, a total of 16 mosqueswere used. The results obtained from the participants as architect andnon-architect are given. It is seen that the participant architects show astatistically more negative approach compared to those who are nonarchitectsin the perceptual evaluations of the facades of the mosques forcomplexity variable. On the other hand, there was no statisticallysignificant difference between the participants' evaluations ofpreference and impressiveness variables (at p