Place and belonging: what can we learn from Claremont Court Housing Scheme?

该项目涉及公众关注的一个关键领域：归属感。这项拟议的研究询问了地点如何影响对地点和社区的归属感。这个问题汇集了来自不同学科(建筑学、社会学和社会工作)的三名研究人员和一群居民，是一种独特的跨学科方法的基础，该方法同时研究物理空间和生活空间，并以克莱蒙特法院住房计划(爱丁堡)为案例。克莱蒙特法院是一个战后的大型混合开发住房计划，其中包括作为其创建原则之一的场所。随着时间的推移，随着社会的重大变化和住房政策的转变，该计划的组成也发生了变化。因此，它是一个揭示场所和归属之间联系的合适地点。这项研究建立在两个假设之上：首先，它将场所(居住空间)理解为物理空间和空间氛围(那些赋予它意义的现象或居住方面)。其次，它认为居住和归属是可以互换的。我们的假设是，创造位置的过程会带来归属感。这项拟议的研究确定了构成基本研究问题的三条相互关联的线索：空间、大气和归属感。这些研究需要五个阶段的新的跨学科方法，将建筑理论的方法和评估过程与社会科学的方法和评估过程结合起来。本研究的创新之处在于运用跨学科的研究方法，通过演绎的方法来证实或否定建筑的场所制造理论。现象学的方法(即研究人类经验的方法)已经被用来探索人们对场所的体验以及建筑如何成为场所营造的媒介。然而，建筑理论的概念方法与居住空间研究之间的差距仍有待弥合。

This project engages with a key area of public concern: sense of belonging. The proposed research asks how place influences belonging to place and community. This question, which brings together three researchers from different disciplines (Architecture, Sociology and Social Work) and a collective of residents, is the basis of a unique cross-disciplinary approach that studies both physical and lived space, using as a case study Claremont Court housing scheme (Edinburgh). Claremont Court is a large post-war mixed development housing scheme, which included place-making as one of its founding principles. Over time and with significant societal changes and shifts in housing policy, the composition of the scheme has changed. It is therefore an apposite site for uncovering connections between place and belonging.The research is built on two assumptions: first, it understands place (lived space) as the physical space together with the spatial atmosphere (those phenomena or lived aspects that give meaning to it). Second, it takes dwelling and belonging as interchangeable. Our assumption is that the process of place-making leads to belonging. The proposed research identifies three interlinked strands that frame the underlying research question: space, atmosphere and belonging. These research strands require a five-stage new cross-disciplinary methodology that combines methods and evaluation processes from architectural theory with those of the social sciences. The originality of this research is the use of cross-disciplinary research in a deductive approach to confirm or not an architectural theory of place-making.A phenomenological approach (i.e., one which studies human experience) has been used already to explore people's experience of place and how architecture can be a vehicle for place making. However, the gap between the conceptual approach of architectural theory and the study of lived space has still to be bridged.