At the end of this course, the students; 1) Interpret the architectural program and to generate a conceptual framework. 2) Analyze socio-cultural data, environmental relations, urban context, functional and spatial requirements for the project. 3) Establish and develop the architectural relationship between space and context. 4) Learn to design public and private space relations by considering urban design issues and environmental data. 5) Determine the construction technique, structural systems and materials within the framework of spatial expectations. 6) Develop the ability to express their design ideas and architectural projects both conceptually and technically.
MODE OF DELIVERY
Face to face
PRE-REQUISITES OF THE COURSE
Yes(MİM292)
RECOMMENDED OPTIONAL PROGRAMME COMPONENT
None
COURSE DEFINITION
Within the scope of the course, students are expected to design a housing project within an urban fabric in the city center. In the design process, which will start with preliminary studies on urban readings and daily practices, it is aimed that the architectural project will re-discuss the public space-private space concepts in today?s context and will include experiments on social and spatial sustainability and construction techniques.
COURSE CONTENTS
WEEK
TOPICS
1st Week
Introduction, Introduction of the Course / Practice 1
2nd Week
Research, studio work, student presentations
3rd Week
Practice 2: Project Site - observations and analysis
4th Week
Practice 3: Analysis of the architectural program
5th Week
Development of proposals at 1/1000 scale and studio critics
6th Week
Development of proposals at 1/1000 scale and studio critics
7th Week
PRE JURY 1
8th Week
1/500 and 1/200 scale project development and studio critics
9th Week
1/500 and 1/200 scale project development and studio critics
10th Week
1/500 and 1/200 scale project development and studio critics
11th Week
PRE JURY 2
12th Week
1/200 scale project development and studio critics
13th Week
1/200 scale project development and studio critics
14th Week
1/200 scale project development and studio critics
RECOMENDED OR REQUIRED READING
Blunt, A. Cultural geography: cultural geographies of home, Progress in Human Geography 29, 4 (2005) pp. 505-515. Cieraad, I. (1999). At Home: An Anthropology of Domestic Space. New York: Syracuse University Press. Hamdi, N. (1995). Housing Without Houses: Participation, Flexibility, Enablement. London: Intermediate Technology Publications. Guallart, Vicente (Ed.), 2010, Self-Sufficient City: Envisioning the habitat of the future, Actar Publishers. Kent, S. (1990). Domestic Architecture and the Use of Space: An Interdisciplinary Cross-Cultural Study. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. Meesters, J. (2009). The Meaning of Activities in the Dwelling and Residential Environment: A Structural Approach in People-Environment Relations, Amsterdam and Netherlands: IOS Press. Norberg-Schulz, C. (1985). The concept of dwelling on the way to figurative architecture. Rapoport, A. (1969). House Form and Culture. New Jersey: Prentice Hall Inc. Spannos, C. (2008). Real utopia: participatory society for the 21st century. Edinburgh: AK Press. Turner, J. F. C. Housing by People, Pantheon Books, 1977. Wheeler, Stephen M. 2004, Sustainable development. In: Wheeler, Stephen M. 2004, Planning for Sustainability. Creating Livable, Equitable and Ecological Communities, Routledge.
