MIM5502 Computer Aided DesignBahçeşehir UniversityDegree Programs ARCHITECTURE (TURKISH, NON-THESIS)General Information For StudentsDiploma SupplementErasmus Policy StatementNational QualificationsBologna Commission
ARCHITECTURE (TURKISH, NON-THESIS)
Master TR-NQF-HE: Level 7 QF-EHEA: Second Cycle EQF-LLL: Level 7

Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code Course Name Semester Theoretical Practical Credit ECTS
MIM5502 Computer Aided Design Fall 0 3 3 12
This catalog is for information purposes. Course status is determined by the relevant department at the beginning of semester.

Basic information

Language of instruction: Turkish
Type of course: Departmental Elective
Course Level:
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator : Assoc. Prof. SUZAN GİRGİNKAYA AKDAĞ
Recommended Optional Program Components: None
Course Objectives: The experience of digital technologies in architecture introduced and required a variety of digital skills as a new type of architectural knowledge. This course aims to inform these digital skills and knowledge with a theoretical framework. Computability concepts and techniques are to be evaluated as a possibility to open up channels in translating ideas and transferring concepts from other disciplines to develop architectural interpretations. Through theory, critical study and research, contemporary digital design methods are to be understood in a relationship beyond techniques only.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
1. To construe different concepts in computing terms theoretically.
2. To make use of basic techniques to transfer concepts in to computing terms.
3. To evaluate theoretical framework for digital techniques.
4. To write an academic paper.

Course Content

The course is taught in a lecture and seminar format and requires attendance to workshops. Along with the study of weekly reading lists and seminar sesssions in the class, a concept outside of the field of architecture is proposed by the student in the beginning of the course to be studied for and during the workshops. As for the completion of the requirements of the class, workshop studies are to be presented in an academic research paper proposing the architectural implications and possibilities,and relevance of techniques used within a theoretical framework.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Introduction to Digital Design in Architecture -
2) Development of Computational Concepts in Architecture The assigned reading list is to be studied
3) Hybridization of Architectural Design. The assigned reading list is to be studied. Project Proposal is to be prepared.
4) Parametric Design The assigned reading list is to be studied.
5) Algorithmic Design The assigned reading list is to be studied.
6) Pre-Workshop study and presentations: Structuring concepts for computing Project proposal is to be studied
7) Workshop 1: Parametric Application Project proposal is to be studied
8) Workshop 1 Evaluation Workshop 1 Products to be revised and presented in a portfolio
9) Generative Systems in Design The assigned reading list is to be studied.
10) Shape Grammer Applications in Design The assigned reading list is to be studied.
11) Fractal Geometry Studies in Design The assigned reading list is to be studied.
12) Workshop 2: Fractal Geometry and Algorithmic Application Project proposal is to be studied.
13) Workshop 2 Evaluation Workshop 2 Products to be revised and presented in a portfolio
14) Final paper reviews Final Paper to be drafted.
15) - -
16) Submission of term paper

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: Picon, Antoine. (2010). Digital culture in architecture : an introduction for the design professions. Birkhauser, Basel.
Martin Lister, Jon Dovey , Seth Giddings, Iain Grant, Kieran Kelly. (2009,2nd ed, 2003). New Media: a critical introduction. Routledge, London .
William W.Braham and Jonathan A.Hale, John Stanislav Sadar (eds) (2007). Rethinking Technology: A Reader In Architectural Theory. Routledge, NewYork.
Terzidis, K., (2006), Algorithmic Architecture, MA: Architectural Press/Elsevier.
Neil Leach, David Turnbull, Chris Williams (eds) (2004). Digital Tectonics. Wiley, London.
Picon, A. and Ponte, A., eds.(2003) Architecture and the Sciences: Exchanging Metaphors, Princeton Architectural Press, New York.
Kalay,Y. E.(2004) Architecture’s New Media: Principles,Theories, and Methods of Computer-aided Design. MIT Press, Cambridge.
Oxman, R., (2006) Theory and design in the first digital age.Design Studies, 2006, 27(3), p.229-265.
Oxman, R., Digital architecture as a challenge for design pedagogy: theory,knowledge, models and medium, Design Studies,2008, 29(2), p.99-120
Lynn, G.(1999). Animate Form. Princeton University Press, Princeton.
Gallagher, S.(2006). How the Body Shapes the Mind, Oxford University Press, Oxford.
Mitchell,W. J.(1990).The Logic of Architecture: Design, Computation, and Cognition, MIT Press, Cambridge.
Kolarevic, B. (ed) (2003). Architecture in the digital age: design and manufacturing. Spoon Press, New York.
Terzidis, K. (2003) Expressive Form: A conceptual approach to computational design, Spoon Press, New York.
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Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Project 2 % 40
Final 1 % 60
Total % 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK % 0
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK % 100
Total % 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities Number of Activities Workload
Course Hours 14 42
Application 2 4
Study Hours Out of Class 13 68
Homework Assignments 1 30
Final 1 1
Total Workload 145

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) 1 4
2) 2 2
3) 3. 4
4) 4 5
5) 5 4
6) 6 4
7) 7 5
8) 8 3
9) 9 3