This course is an introduction to the basic elements, concepts and principles of design. It comprises specific assignments to develop mental and manual skills to deal with the design problems at hand and to form visual and formal values for forming compositional unities in two and three dimensions.
This course provides an introduction to the basic scope and vocabulary of architecture and architectural design. It includes the theoretical study of the primary concepts of architectural knowledge, principally on architectural form, structure, function and context. It examines these architectural concepts in detail in order to develop the basic means and criteria of understanding and evaluating the formation of architectural products within their environment.
This course involves exercises to develop perception, communication, and visual concepts in architecture by using drawing media. It concentrates on specific themes, such as formal rules of abstraction, visualization of three-dimensionality, drawing to scale, proficiency in drawing, manipulation of drafting techniques, and basic skills of graphic expressions. The drawing equipment, materials and techniques are introduced to students via this course.
This course introduces students freehand drawing and to describe how to make architectural sketches. The course designed to improve students’ skills of visual expression.
This studio course is the introductory course for the design studios. It introduces students what the architectural design idea is and to analyzing design ideas in a given project. It demonstrates that the design process is depended to the concepts of context and program. Students firstly encounter with what the context and program are.
Architectural History I is the first one of four general survey courses that provide students with a critical understanding of architectural developments and cross-cultural relations. The material presented in this course is drawn from the Neolithic through the Middle Ages and will focus particularly on the architecture of Europe and the Mediterranean basin. The course will deal with architecture and built environment within a contextual frame.
This course introduces students to architectural drawing techniques in proper scales. It involves exercises to give the principles of three dimensional, pictorial drawing techniques, and perspective drawings (one point perspective and two points perspective). It focuses on architectural drawing methods from site plan and sections to application project scale.
Introduction to principles of statics and strength. Force vectors, equivalent force systems, free body diagrams, support reactions, analysis of planar trusses, analysis of beams, shear force, bending moment and axial force diagrams, centroids and moment of inertia of sections, stress and strain, axial stress, shear stress, bending stress, combined stress effects.
This is the first studio in the Architectural Design Studio series, which totals 6 studios in all. The Architectural Design Studio series constitutes the core of the architectural curriculum. The Architectural Design Studio series allows students to apply their theoretical and technical knowledge/skills to specific design problems. Each studio in the series covers various aspects of design and places in a different emphasis on the topic, concept, scale, and context of the design problem. This course introduces students what the “dwelling” means and related concepts are such as neighbourhood, privacy, private space in a physical context.
This is an undergraduate course which aims to develop the basic skills for 2D architectural drawing and 3D architectural modeling using one or more computer-aided design software. This course is the first phase of the series of the computer-aided design courses based on a total comprehension of architectural drawing, modelling and representation by computer-aided design applications in pursuit of a contemporary means of architectural design and representation at the end. It aims to bring the students of architecture in the basic information and tools for 2D architectural drawing and 3D architectural modelling by a comprehension of the basic rules for a computer aided orthographic composition and 3D representation of the architectural design projects. Producing architectural drawings and modellings in different scales in computer aided software forms the essential part of the course.
The major building materials which are involved in the making of buildings are discussed in the context of this course, with respect to their different properties and usage. The course mainly aims to: -Establish sense and consciousness of building material in the minds of the students of architecture -Provide basic information on the nature of materials: where we get them from; how we transform them to become building material. -Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each material with respect to its nature -Teach building material related terminology.
This course explores and tests the factors that shape/guide/direct architectural design. For conceptualizing the fundamental factors that shape architectural design, architectural unities/objects/systems will be exploded into subsystems. Exploding architectural objects into subsystems will support to understand what kinds of factors are effective on end products under the spatio-temporal conditions. The course covers dissolving processes of architectural projects for discovering factors that had seminal roles on well-designed spaces. This in-depth study, exploding procedure, on architectural objects will be supported via seminal literary/audio-visual sources. Via the exploding procedure, students are expected to interpret both the programmatic data and contextual approaches.
Architectural History II is the second one of four general survey courses that provide students with a critical understanding of architectural developments and cross-cultural relations. The material presented in this course is drawn from the end of the 7th through the 19th centuries and focus particularly on the architecture of Europe and the Mediterranean basin. The course deals with architecture and built environment within a contextual frame.
Covering the aspects of building construction by concentrating on the main elements of buildings. In this respect, the architectural background of buildings such as foundations, walls, and floor systems are analyzed. Also, terminology regarding various materials and structural systems are covered within the content of this course.
Basic concepts of strength. Centroid, Moment of Inertia, Stress and strain, axial stress, shear stress, bending stress, combined stress effects. Use of appropriate approximate and exact methods of analysis. Deflections, distribution of internal forces and stresses. The behavior of frame systems under gravitational and lateral load effects.
This is the second studio in the Architectural Design Studio series, which totals 6 studios in all. The Architectural Design Studio series constitutes the core of the architectural curriculum. The Architectural Design Studio series allows students to apply their theoretical and technical knowledge/skills to specific design problems. Each studio in the series covers various aspects of design and places a different emphasis on the topic, concept, scale, and context of the design problem. The main focus of this course is the notions of privacy and publicity within a physical context. The architectural programming is moderate and small-scale. The topics may cover but not limited to housing, office and administration, retail, education and research, sports, recreation and public safety. The drawing and representation scale of the projects will mainly constitute of 1/100 scale.
Architectural History III is the third one of four general survey courses that provide students with a critical understanding of architectural developments and cross-cultural relations. This course covers art and architecture of the 20th and 21th centuries as exemplified especially in Europe and USA. Steady and rapid changes, similar and contrasting ideas and their reflections in art & and architecture will be discussed in the course.
This is an undergraduate course which aims to develop the basic skills for 3D architectural rendering and 2D architectural visualization and illustration using one or more computer-aided design software. This course is the second phase of the series of the computer-aided design courses based on a total comprehension of architectural drawing, modelling and representation by computer-aided design applications in pursuit of a contemporary means of architectural design and representation at the end. It aims to bring the students of architecture in the basic information and tools for 3D architectural rendering and 2D architectural visualization by a comprehension of the basic rules for a computer-aided rendering and representation of the architectural projects. Producing architectural drawings and modellings in different scales in computer-aided software forms the essential part of the course.
The course covers evaluation of factors that create the climatic environment, precautions regarding to climatic environment and standards and regulations on the subject, heat flow and movements due to heat in building elements, rules that will be taken into consideration during the design in terms of fuel economy, solar control methods, precautions to be taken against water and moisture on building, insulation systems and their details. In addition the course provides principles of integrating HVAC systems and into design while regarding renewable energy potential. Design integration of water supply and disposal, waste management are also subjects of the course.
Covering the aspects of building construction by concentrating on the main elements of buildings. In this respect, architectural background such as staircases and roof systems are analyzed. Also, terminology regarding various materials and structural systems are covered within the content of this course.
Deflection of beams. Analysis of indeterminate beams. Analysis of continuous beams. Structural design project concerning the design, building and testing of a small-scale truss bridge.
This is the third studio in the Architectural Design Studio series, which totals six studios in all. The Architectural Design Studio series constitutes the core of the architectural curriculum. The Architectural Design Studio series allows students to apply their theoretical and technical knowledge/skills to specific design problems. Each studio in the series covers various aspects of design and places a different emphasis on the topic, concept, scale, and context of the design problem. The main focus of this course is to concentrate on medium scale public buildings (such as office blocks, governmental buildings, education and research units, sport and recreational buildings etc.) or housing projects by focusing on the integration of composition, site, program, mass and form in relation to structure, and methods of construction.
Covering the aspects of building construction by concentrating on the main elements of buildings. In this respect, architectural background of building systems such as Environmental & Utility Services, Ceiling Systems, Cladding & Wood Veneering, Structural Glazing systems, Curtain Wall Systems are analyzed. Also, terminology regarding various materials and structural systems are covered within the content of this course.
Architectural History IV is the last one of four general survey courses that provides students with a critical understanding of architectural developments and cross-cultural relations. This course covers art and architecture of the 20th and 21th centuries as exemplified especially in Turkey. Steady and rapid changes, similar and contrasting ideas and their reflections in art & and architecture will be discussed in the course.
This course is intended for developing heritage consciousness amongst the students of architecture. ARCH315 is the introductory level course for the possible forthcoming courses concerning the issues of heritage conservation and architectural restoration. In ARCH315 students are expected to get information about cultural heritage, understand the meaning and importance of architectural heritage with respect to the values of them.
The course covers solar control methods and its tools, principles of natural and artificial lighting, physical sizes related with the acoustic environment, prevention from noise and sound insulation, acoustically formatting, sound absorbers and relevant standards and regulations, issues that need to be considered against to the fire during the design.
This is the fourth studio in the Architectural Design Studio series, which totals 6 studios in all. The Architectural Design Studio series constitutes the core of the architectural curriculum. The Architectural Design Studio series allows students to apply their theoretical and technical knowledge/skills to specific design problems. Each studio in the series covers various aspects of design and places a different emphasis on the topic, concept, scale, and context of the design problem. The main focus of this course is on the contextual interpretation of design problem within a technological context which consists of tectonic, structural, accessibility and sustainability aspects. The topic and scale vary depending on design problem.
This course comprises the basic theories shaping arhitecture practice spanning from The Age of Enlightenment to the 21st century. The course investigates the basic philosophical theories of the 19th, 20th and 21st centuries, the resultant architectural movements, and the architectural outcomes of these movements. By this course, the students are expected to better understand the current architectural trends and create a critical point of view towards them.
In ARCH316 the students are expected to get information about the methods of documentation, which is essential for transferring the built heritage of humanity to the future generations. The methods of, survey, visual documentation and written documentation are introduced to the students via this course.
Definition of the city, its development and analysis of its elements, functions, and corresponding physical form. Introduction to city planning: historical background, land-use planning, transportation planning, planning at different scales, management of cities, legal framework guiding the formation of cities.
This is the fifth studio in the Architectural Design Studio series, which totals 6 studios in all. The Architectural Design Studio series constitutes the core of the architectural curriculum. The Architectural Design Studio series allows students to apply their theoretical and technical knowledge/skills to specific design problems. Each studio in the series covers various aspects of design and places a different emphasis on the topic, concept, scale, and context of the design problem. The main focus of this course is on the contextual interpretation of design problem within a historical context. The topic and scale vary depending on design problem.
The overall design and building/construction process is complex and integrated with other disciplines. Each architectural design is unique and has its content considering its design and building/construction processes. Based on these stances, this course will help students to improve their visions to take part in integrated design teams and finding new pathways for management of complex designs in building environment considering the ethical values. This course covers content and context of management principles of architectural design process, building/construction process and their interactions including stakeholders. The course also includes definitions and discussions of ethical values, basic ethical norms and the architects’ code of ethics. Last not but the least, the course analyses processes of design, building planning, project organization based on time, cost, quality and risks.
Within the scope of this course; definitions and concepts of workers and employers, basic information on occupational health and safety, occupational diseases and work accidents, occupational health and safety in law, protective equipment, ergonomic risks, biological risk factors are included.
This is the sixth studio in the Architectural Design Studio series, which totals 6 studios in all. The Architectural Design Studio series constitutes the core of the architectural curriculum. The Architectural Design Studio series allows students to apply their theoretical and technical knowledge/skills to specific design problems. Each studio in the series covers various aspects of design and places a different emphasis on the topic, concept, scale, and context of the design problem. The main focus of this course is on the contextual interpretation of design problem within a complex urban context. The topic may vary depending on the design problem. The scale encompasses an extra large and complex building programme and/or the design of an extra large building complex.
Within the scope of this course the responsibilities of government, employer and workers in health and safety. The effects of workplace on employees. The health and safety problems and their solution techniques in office and construction site, analysis and discussion of construction accidents, risk assesment methods, disaster and emergency management are included.
This course provides information to the students of architecture about the processes of emerging and developing architectural conservation concerns in Turkey. The subject is discussed considering the basic heritage conservation concepts of past and present as well as the development of architectural conservation ideas throughout the time.
This course aims to provide architecture students a comprehensive understanding on the multi-dimensional and complex relationship between acoustics and architecture. To achieve that, design considerations will be given in terms of room acoustics including the formation of basic theory of acoustics. Moreover, course will introduce students a new software; Odeon Room Acoustics Software
This course focuses on the concept of historic environment and its conservation by analyzing and discussing urban conservation, urban archaeology, archaeological sites, cultural landscapes, historic towns and villages, rural heritage, historic sites and neighbourhoods, new design in historic context, heritage management planning, related issues and new trends.
Passive and active solar systems, general principles of passive solar design, design alternatives achieved by thermophysical and optical properties of building components, direct solar gain systems, indirect solar gain systems, separate and hybrid solar gain systems, principles of solar cooling systems are covered within the content of this course.
This course explores and tests the ideas that shape architecture within a given context. For this purpose, a specific architectural research topic will be selected each semester. “Decoding” and “coding” methodologies/procedures will be used in order to develop conceptual awareness of the current spatial/architectural/urban problems and various design responses to them. Correspondingly, the course covers dissolving of case studies, as well as, study of seminal literary/audio-visual sources on the selected architectural research topic. Relying on this in-depth study and “decoding” procedure, students are expected to rewrite theme specific “codes” and to reinterpret the architectural problem.
This course aims to explore the concept, content and architecture of museums. This is aimed to be achieved through the lectures, readings & discussions on the history and type of museums; on functional & technical requirements of museums; as well as on contemporary approaches to museum architecture.
This course explores the principles of earthquake resistant architectural design. Definition of the earthquake phenomenon, seismic characteristics of Turkey are among the topics covered during the semester. Main focus will be on the material and mechanical properties of reinforced concrete and seismic performance of reinforced concrete structures from an architectural point of view. Common seismic design mistakes made by designers will be explored and methods of avoiding them will be studied.
Energy, climate and design relationship, macroclimate and microclimate, natural, renewable and clean energy sources, passive heating and cooling systems, thermal response of the building components, wind and air movement inside and outside of the building, energy efficient building and urban design parameters, are covered within the content of this course.
This pro-seminar course focusing on the aspects of architectural culture, urban forms, uses and representations of spaces in Ottoman Architecture and Ottoman cities. The material presented in this course is drawn from the beginning of the 15th century through the 19th centuries and will focus particularly on the Ottoman architectural examples of Istanbul, Bursa, Edirne and other Ottoman provincial cities. The course will deal with Ottoman architecture and the built environment within a contextual frame. The concept of urbanism, representation, monumentality are going to discuss by making comparisons with other cultures’ developments.
This course provides an introduction to theories and research methods in Environmental Psychology and applies them to the study of urban public space. The course provides students with a preliminary “analytical framework” to critique and analyse public space design. The analytical framework consists in examining the relation between environmental attributes of urban public spaces and people’s uses and activities. The course draws from the ecological perception theory and the notion of affordances to enquire how designers and practitioners can modify the physical environment to design public spaces which promote health and well-being for city dwellers.
This course attempts to examine recent theories and research results on the cognitive impact of cultural knowledge in creativity and architectural design. It includes theoretical discussions on cognition, culture, creativity and architectural design.
| This course is one of the elective courses offered in the undergraduate program, which is specialized in the area of conservation of cultural heritage. It will provide student a general knowledge on twentieth century architectural heritage, a crucial issue particularly in Ankara where significant examples of modern architecture exist. The course will focus on twentieth century architectural heritage by investigating the concept of modern particularly in architecture, selection and designation as cultural property, related legislative regulations, conservation problems and intervention methods. Theoretical background will be discussed through international and local case studies. |
The aim of this course, is to make a research design approaches in urban historic areas. The main principles and information which must be taken in consideration for the design of new buildings in dense historic areas. Discussions on the examples of different important approaches and international decisions related to these principles.
This pro-seminar course focuses on theoretical and methodological issues in the Traditional Anatolian Houses. Texts and visual sources on the subject will be read and discussed. Traditional Anatolian Houses will be examined through key notions of the tradition of construction in Anatolia. In this course, students read resources about Anatolian housing culture, analyze tradition, and the reasons of regional differences.
Approaches for comprehension, analysis, assessment and representation in/of multi-layered contexts; survey of stratification formed by the relations through historical continuity in space, ranging from settlements to edifices; constitution of the plano-volumetric image of multi-layered settlements in reference to data obtained from diverse studies as a mean to define specific case studies; representative, interpretative and transformative design explorations and utopias in selected historic towns.
Generating knowledge on the purposes and systematic operations of surveying in the matter of architectural conservation; providing an experimentation platform related to surveying with photogrammetric, optical and electronic equipment recently being applied on cultural heritage; establishing a critical assessment about the different methods used for recording the data gathered from the historical edifices.
This course introduces students what Utopia/Dystopia/Heterotopia is and what their conceptual relations with architectural spaces are. Through readings of selected texts and visual documents, the course will examine which architectural space elements used to represent and to reflect the concepts, Utopia/Dystopia/Heterotopia. This course will pursue that what the role of the concepts, Utopia/Dystopia/Heterotopia, in constructing new/critical/ heterogeneous life structures for understanding current urban life.
This course introduces students to fundamental texts and concepts of modernity. Through readings of selected texts, the course will examine what the modernity is and new approaches came with modern thoughts in literature, music, cinema and architecture. It will pursue that what the modernity brings to life and how it changed the whole cogito.
This course is built around analysis of concepts of green buildings and green building certification systems; to inform on utilizing costs/benefits analysis, life cycle costs, embodied energy evaluation and overall sustainability. The course also aims to analyze the certification systems used worldwide based on their, techniques, documentation and certification systems.
This course introduces students to architectural documentaries related with urbanism. Through readings of selected texts, the course will examine transformations in urban life from the second half of 20th century to now. Course is designed to understand new urban issues via the architectural documentaries.
The students are expected to write a short essay (max. 2 double-spaced pages, and references) for each week, describing and discussing the concept or issue in question each week, basing their essays on a selection of the provided readings for the week. During the final period, students will have the opportunity to rewrite or revise two of the essays they have previously submitted.
This course investigates the significant issues in the architectural profession within the scope of case studies. In this respect, information on the fields of study of an architect, professional responsibilities, and professional ethics are given in this course. Potential problems and solution methods in the architectural practice are presented. The importance of constant professional development is underlined. The importance and necessity of teamwork in practical fields. The duties of supervisor agents and administrative bodies in the profession are presented. The production processes are discussed based on the case studies. The course provides an opportunity to learn about ethical and legal concerns of the cases by discussion besides the theoretical presentations.
This course aims to develop an understanding on the general concepts of social housing and community planning from design and planning to spatial and social formation for the students of architecture. The course deals with economic and social interventions as well as spatial actions in social housing as an operative field at the disciplinary intersection of architecture, urban design and planning. Surveying and analysing social housing projects from different countries is part of the course.
This course introduces students to theoretical texts written after the year 2000 in architecture. Through readings of selected texts, the course will examine what kinds of transformations have been happened in architectural theory, while theory has minor importance according to praxis in contemporary architecture. This course will pursue that what the role of theory on contemporary practical architectural milieu.