Purpose

This paper aims to interpret the workers’ perception of combined cycle power plants through visual qualities.

Design/methodology/approach

In this qualitative research landscape image, the sketching technique is applied as a data collection method to extract participants’ mental images by asking them to draw sketches. The resulted sketches besides obtained verbal and written data were analyzed and coded in three stages to explain the workers’ perception. Visual qualities were studied as a mean which made it possible to interpret the workers’ perception of their workplace.

Findings

Careful analysis of the gathered data and the emerged concepts via open coding identify four axial categories of the concepts forming the workers’ perception of the power plants: “inconsistency with nature,” “emphasis on function and product,” “health and environmental threats” and “interpretation of the built form as a mass instead of space.” These four categories support the core category of the proposed theory which is “perceiving building as the machine.” This phrase explains how workers perceive power plants as machines, not as supportive and lively environments. This is followed by consequences, “precedence of building over human” is prominent among them.

Originality/value

In the relevant body of literature, visual impact and visual perception of conventional thermal power plants are largely missed, as well as visual relation to environment focusing on a single building or groups of adjacent buildings. This paper covers both areas via asking for sketches as a data collection method, in addition, to interview the participants to clarify their mental image of the work environment.

中文翻译：

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“建筑如机器”：联合循环电厂工人的心理形象

目的

本文旨在通过视觉质量来解释工人对联合循环发电厂的感知。

设计/方法/方法

在这个定性研究风景图像中，素描技术被用作数据收集方法，通过要求他们画素描来提取参与者的心理图像。除了获得的口头和书面数据外，所产生的草图还分三个阶段进行分析和编码，以解释工人的看法。视觉质量作为一种手段进行研究，这使得解释工人对其工作场所的看法成为可能。

发现

通过开放编码对收集到的数据和出现的概念进行仔细分析，确定形成工人对电厂感知的概念的四个轴向类别：“与自然不一致”、“强调功能和产品”、“健康和环境威胁”和“将建筑形式解释为体量而不是空间。” 这四个类别支持所提出理论的核心类别，即“将建筑视为机器”。这句话解释了工人如何将发电厂视为机器，而不是支持性和活泼的环境。随之而来的是后果，其中“建筑优先于人”是突出的。

原创性/价值

在相关文献中，传统火力发电厂的视觉冲击和视觉感知以及与环境的视觉关系集中在单个建筑物或相邻建筑物组中，在很大程度上被忽略了。本文通过要求草图作为数据收集方法涵盖了这两个领域，此外，还采访了参与者以澄清他们对工作环境的心理形象。