Analysis of the Courtyard by Semiotic Method; Denizli Erbakır Science High School Courtyard

Societies have put forward different life styles in different periods of time within continuously developing physical and cultural environment. The developments and changes within the life styles have reflected to the architecture, parts of the architecture and thus venues. Making sense of venues and establishing relationship with the user are required in order to create quality and livable venues. Architectural characters and forms find reciprocity in terms of indicators of the environments they exist in. Language in the architecture is the integrity perceived and interpreted among the architects, designers and users, and these indicators take place on the textures, shapes and surfaces. Reading of indicators within the architectural integrity and parts of the integrity is possible by means of semiotic method. Semantic, syntactic and pragmatic dimensions, which form the ground of the semiotic method, enable the reading of architectural product indicators and the establishment of communication. Stylistic, functional and symbolic characters belonging to the each architectural product allow the analysis by means of semiotic method. Venue patterns composing the structural integrity have various impacts on the users with their forms, functions and visual features. For the public venues such as schools where the number of users are high; the positive perceptions of the users is the indicator of that the life quality of the venues are high. Yard, which is one of the significant venues of the basic education structures, plays an important role in creation of quality and livable school venues in the context of both their place in the spatial organization, functional features and physiological effects. The aim of this study is to detect physical, functional, stylistic features of the Denizli Erbakır Science High School, which includes the physical properties such as providing microclimatic environment, lighting and visual enrichment within the historical period, and which finds a place in the designs with its functional characteristics such as being a venue organizer, collector and distributor, and to detect semantic and beneficial perceptions of the students by means of semiotic method.