Architectural Design 4

Objective

The main objective of Design Studio 4 is to develop the designing skills of the students with respect to the design subject and program that they have derived from observations and findings during the analysis process that covers a range from the scale of urban context and urban relations to that of architecture.

Scope

Scope of the studio covers subjects on design issues stated below and such that deal with settlements featuring particular attributes of the urban texture, functions, historical, natural and topographical qualifications. The study starts with determining the functional and spatial qualifications of the given context after which discussions will be held on the functional proposals the students will bring. More topics such as the emerging functions in the changing urban structure, historical features of the city, rehabilitation of the buildings, infill applications of the urban voids and landscape design will be brought into question. Some of the essential steps of the design proposal within this approach involve the functional relationships and design problems that originate from the superposition of differing functions.

Implementation

The field study will be intended towards the comprehension of the social, cultural, economic and physical structure of the area and will be carried out with analytical observations, questionnaires and bibliographical techniques.

Process

The course is studio oriented and will take place in the studio rooms with the supervision of the academic staff stated in the list below. Each student is expected to participate in the studio work with the required material (such as sketching paper, pens, modeling cardboards, notebooks, etc.,).

Submission, Evaluation and Jury Sessions

Two sketch exams, two general jury sessions and two group meetings will be held during the semesters which are stated in the course program. The Final Project Submission as well as the Final Jury session date and time will be announced by Architectural Department Secretariat. The students are required to pay the highest attention to those date and time and expected to hand in their project when they are due. Any delay will result in rejection of their final submissions.

STUDIOS

208

prof.dr. meral erdoğan

assoc. prof. dr. zühre sözeri

res. assis. gülçin özen

411

assoc. prof. dr. ayşen ciravoğlu

lecturer jose manuel garcia torres

res. assis. özde özdal

Submission and Jury Session Guide

Project Submissions:

Media size is A1 (59.4 by 84.1 cm). Orientation is portrait. The number of media is advised not to exceed 4 pages. The presentation technique and style is free and subject to the student’s own choices and preferences but expected to be considered as a part of the design (see: MIMED, archiprix competitions). 2cm from top and bottom of the submitted media will be reserved for the name of the university, department and studio information on top and name of the studio tutor and student at the bottom. Media when brought near one another (within the exhibition order) is expected to become a part of the graphic whole. In either method of digital and analogue presentations, use of color, hues and shades (letratone, brush pen, crayons, paint brushing, etc.,) is recommended. Required drawing material is as follows:

1) One or several pages that contain 1/10000, 1/5000, 1/2000, 1/1000 scale drawings that represent the analytical data, contextual urban relations, general concept and approach to the design, site selection criteria, causality of the design proposal, the development process of your architectural form, decision making and the design inputs that should be accompanied by texts, sketches, model photography, collages, etc.,

2) 1/500 scale site plan with the existing environment and silhouettes (some projects may require 1/1000 or 1/2000 representations as well)

3) 1/200 scale drawings (some projects may require 1/500 representations as well) that include plans, sections and elevations that takes account the existing environment.

4) Explanations, texts, sketches…

5) 1/50 scale detail sketches to elaborate the structural/constructional settings.

6) The final representation will be submitted in digital format as .jpeg files in a CD (the hand drawings should be scanned and included in this digital record). See CD folder structure below.

Jury Session

7) Materials that show the improvement process of the project will be submitted in a dossier by the student that include the midterm studies. In this dossier, the model photography, sketches, drawings that are criticized during the studio process and the 1^st and 2^nd jury submissions should be present. This dossier will be present alongside your projects during the jury session.

8) 1/1000 cardboard model (it should be located in its proper place in case of a collaborative model)

9)1/200 cardboard model (1/500 and/or 1/100 model in necessary cases)

CD Folder Structure

(*) The decisions on the following matters should exist in the project report: Site selection criteria, subject selection, the environmental impact of the design proposal, site plan decisions, building form-existing environment relationship, general concept/anathema, project levels, details, materials.

Caution!

ü Students that use digital media during the submission process should back up the digital material daily in several external storage units. The printout is recommended to be stretched out through the study process and not be made in the termination day.

ü The projects should be submitted within the date and time interval. The projects submitted overdue the given time interval shall not be accepted and will be regarded failed for the final term evaluation.