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Fulfilment of Individual Needs in Architecture

Kovtun I., Kulczycka I.

Środowisko Mieszkaniowe

2014

nr 13

103--106

Needs are the cause of human activity. They determine the functions and features that the architectural form is created for. Environmental needs accompany any human activity and give the architecture the characteristics in order to meet one’s needs at three levels: 1. Biological needs to protect a person during activities that make them more vulnerable – sleeping, eating, raising children, preserving food. 2. The social level uses territorial behaviours that express a person’s affiliation to a certain group or place, that juxtapose them with other groups. Location, composition, visual accessibility or security in architecture and the object-spatial composition are dictated by the importance of an individual or the society. 3. The need of self-realisation is satisfied by the opportunity to regulate the opening and closure of the personal space. The relation between the surroundings of a person and their environmental needs, and in consequence the occurrence of emotional reactions, make the architectural environment a rich palette of impressions.

Spatial distribution of scent marks in the Red Fox (Vulpes Vulpes L.) : do red foxes select certain plants as signal posts?

Miguel F., Valencia A. A., Arroyo M., Monclus R.

Polish Journal of Ecology

2009

Vol. 57, nr 3

605-609

Chemical signals are widely used in inter and intraspecific communication in many animals. The importance of scent marks in communication has led to a variety of strategies in animals to increase the detectability and persistence of their scent marks. We studied the scent marking of foxes in relation to the role of plants as scent posts in a suburban Mediterranean forest in Madrid. Twice a month, from October 2005 to April 2006, we prospected 16 fixed 50 x 50 m plots, randomly distributed along the study area. We registered all fox faeces and their association to different plants, as well as the potential availability of the different plant species in our study area. Our results indicate that faeces were associated with plants mainly in the clearings, foxes preferred wooden species to grasses as scent posts and holm oak shrubs and rockroses to other wooden species. These data suggest that red foxes select certain plants as substrates for their faeces and pose the possibility that they are guided by searching images when looking for scent posts.