ARC2941 Architectural Presentation TechniquesBahçeşehir UniversityDegree Programs INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGNGeneral Information For StudentsDiploma SupplementErasmus Policy StatementNational QualificationsBologna Commission
INTERIOR ARCHITECTURE AND ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
Bachelor TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 QF-EHEA: First Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 6

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code Course Name Semester Theoretical Practical Credit ECTS
ARC2941 Architectural Presentation Techniques Spring 0 4 2 4
This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester.

Basic information

Language of instruction: English
Type of course: Departmental Elective
Course Level: Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator : Instructor İLHAN AYDIN MELTEM
Course Lecturer(s): Instructor İLHAN AYDIN MELTEM
Recommended Optional Program Components: None
Course Objectives: This course has the objective to improve ways of seeing, sketching and presenting techniques.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
- Ability to use appropriate representational media, such as traditional graphic and digital technology skills, to convey essential formal elements at each stage of the programming and design process.
- Ability to respond to site characteristics such as soil, topography, vegetation, and watershed in the development of a project design.
- Ability to gather, assess, record, apply, and comparatively evaluate relevant information within architectural coursework and design processes.

Course Content

Presentation Techniques Course provides students new ways of seeing, and representing what they see via sketching techniques, abstractions and images. Main aim of this course is to define a place and explore the context while tracing of genius loci. This method will help students to understand existing one before designing new.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Introduction to the course and introduction to sketching Studiowork 1: Drawing from the mind – collaborated sketch experiment
2) Proportion Studiowork 2: Fast sketching - making your own module
3) Representing volume Studiowork 3: Sketching space feeling with sections and plans rendering with various techniques including watercolors and markers
4) Perspective Drawing and shading Studiowork 4: Drawing perspective sketches, shading, rendering with various techniques including watercolors and markers
5) Sketching around town Studiowork 5: Field trip, observing a part of the city
6) Abstraction Studiowork 6: Sketching with abstractions
7) Context Studiowork 7: Sketching a place figuring out the actors that create the place
8) Continuety Studiowork 8: Articulation to city within context and abstraction
9) Midterm exam (Submission)
10) Ways of seeing 01 – Observation-Peeping Studiowork 9: Field trip, observing a part of the city
11) Ways of seeing 02 – Practice Studiowork 10: Using sketching and photography, copy-pasting a place as a memory
12) Ways of seeing 03 – Abstractions- Seeing in an other way Studiowork 11: Making a proposal as a spectator. A change in point of view.
13) Ways of seeing 04 – Paralax Studiowork 12: Converting an image to a a functional object
14) Final presentation Studiowork 13: Presentation of final work
15) Final Submission

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:
References: Elam K. (2007) Typographic Systems
Farelly L. (2008) Representational techniques
Berger J. (1972) Ways of seeing (Görme Biçimleri)
Crary J. (1990) Techniques of the observer (Gözlemcinin Teknikleri)

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Attendance 14 % 10
Homework Assignments 1 % 30
Midterms 1 % 20
Final 1 % 40
Total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 60
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 40
Total % 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities Number of Activities Duration (Hours) Workload
Course Hours 14 4 56
Study Hours Out of Class 10 4 40
Final 1 4 4
Total Workload 100

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

No Effect 1 Lowest 2 Low 3 Average 4 High 5 Highest
           
Program Outcomes Level of Contribution
1) Setting up various spaces in national and international contexts, carrying out designs, planning and applications that could satisfy various user groups and respond various requirements in the field of Interior Architecture,
2) Analyzing the information gathered from the framework of actual physical, social and economical constraints and user requirements, and synthesizing these with diverse knowledge and considerations in order to create innovative spatial solutions,
3) Generating creative, innovative, aesthetic and unique spatial solutions by using tangible and abstract concepts,
4) Using at least one of the illustration and presentation technologies competently, that the field of interior architecture requires,
5) Reporting, presenting and transferring the design, practice and research studies to the specialists or laymen by using visual, textual or oral communication methods, efficiently and accurately,
6) Embracing and prioritizing man-environment relationships, user health, safety and security, and universal design principles in the field of interior architecture,
7) Design understanding and decision making that respects social and cultural rights of the society, cultural heritage and nature,
8) Being aware of national and international values, following developments and being equipped about ethical and aesthetical subjects in the fields of interior architecture, design and art,
9) Having absolute conscious about legal regulations, standards and principles; and realizing professional ethics, duties and responsibilities in the field of Interior Architecture,