ABSTRACT

Chapter 4 uses Nikos Salingaros’ arithmetic function to measure the degrees of life and complexity of buildings in Karanfilköy, Fatih Sultan Mehmet and in test cases for construct validity. Degrees of life is a tool to measure living structure and wholeness within generative design theory. Salingaros ran the degrees of life test for 25 famous buildings (Salingaros 2006, 109). He states that for his estimates he, “used a variety of published photographs, coupled in some cases with my personal recollection of those buildings in the list that I have experienced first hand” (Salingaros 2006, 109). This chapter uses photographs taken by the researcher, an on-site degrees of life evaluation and the researcher’s personal recollection of each site.