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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
ARC2928 Analysis of Built Form Fall 2 0 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: Must Course
Course Level: Bachelor’s Degree (First Cycle)
Mode of Delivery: Face to face
Course Coordinator : RA BÜŞRA ATAM
Recommended Optional Program Components: Visit to certain architectural examples.
Course Objectives: The main objective of this course is to give vision to students on the formative ideas and intensions in their future designs through the analysis of architectural precedents in history, devoloping inferences for the new design problems. Although this is not a history course, linkages to historical and theoretical aspects will be established for a more complete understanding of architectural history and design.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
- Ability to raise clear and precise questions, use abstract ideas to interpret information, consider diverse points of view, reach well-reasoned conclusions, and test alternative outcomes against relevant criteria and standards.
- Ability to gather, assess, record, apply, and comparatively evaluate relevant information within architectural coursework and design processes.
- Understanding of parallel and divergent canons and traditions of architecture, landscape and urban design including examples of indigenous, vernacular, local, regional, national settings from the Eastern, Western, Northern, and Southern hemispheres in terms of their climatic, ecological, technological, socioeconomic, public health, and cultural factors

Course Content

The course focuses on the conceptual and material aspects of architecture introduced in connection with the development of architectural built-form. Main Topics are: design Methodologies, definitions and theories of form / space / material and structure / function program and context.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week Subject Related Preparation
1) Introduction/ Discussion on the content of the course
2) Design as an end product and process
3) "Context" in Architecture Reading 1. Idea. 85 Context / Idea. 16 Platform
4) "Context" in Architecture Reading 2. Stratification pp.147-151 in Unwin, Simon (1997) Analizing Architecture, Routledge, New York.
5) Theories of Form Reading 3. Design Tactics pp.200-205 : Lawson, Bryan (2005) How Designers Think: The Design Process Demystified,4th ed.,Elsevier
6) Theories of Form Okuma 4.Gelernter, M.(1995) Sources of Architectural Form, New York: Manchester University Press, pp.1-18
7) Space and Spatial Organizations in Architecture; Changes in understanding of 'space' in Architectural History Reading 5. Theo van Doesburg - Towards a plastic architecture
8) Space and Spatial Organizations in Architecture; Changes in understanding of 'space' in Architectural History Reading 6.1. Woods, L.,The question of space, http://lebbeuswoods.wordpress.com/2009/11/19/the-question-of-space/ Reading 6.2. "Space", pp. 256-275 in Adrian Forty,(2004) Words and Buildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture, London: Thames and Hudson
9) MID-TERM EXAM
10) On Form and Function: A Comperative Analysis of Different Built Forms with Same Function and A Comperative Analysis of Similar Space Organisations with different Built Forms Reading 7. "Function", pp. 174-195 in the book: Forty, Adrian (2004) Words and Buildings:A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture, London: Thames and Hudson.
11) Technological Developments, materials and Structural Systems in Architecture: Comperative Analysis of Selected Built Examples Reading 8: Deplazes,A.(2008) Constructing Architecture,materials processes structures,2nd ed.,Birkhauser pp.13-16
12) Comperative Analysis of Selected Built Forms
13) Presentations of Selected Examples by the Students
14) Review of the topics..

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks: Excerpts of asked reading materials will be given on weekly basis
References: 1.Clark, R. H. and Pause, M., (1996) Precedents in Architecture, New York: John Wiley and Sons, 2.Deplazes, Andrea (2008) Constructing Architecture: Materials, Processes, Structures, Birkhäuser Architecture; 2nd ed.
3.Forty Adrian (2004)Words andBuildings: A Vocabulary of Modern Architecture, London: Thames and Hudson.
4.Kakkonen (2008) Basics: Design Methods, Birkhauser.
5.Moussavi, Farshid (2009) The Function of Form, Actar.
6.Müller, W. (2012) Mimarlık Atlası Cilt 1 Mezopotamyadan Bizans’a Mimarlık Tarihi,Trans. by Doğan Tuna, YEM Yayınları.
7.Müller, W. (2012) Mimarlık Atlası Cilt 2 Romaneskden Günümüze Mimarlık Tarihi, Trans. by Doğan Tuna, YEM Yayınları.
8. Ots, Enn (2010) Decoding Theory Speak : An Illustrated Guide to Architectural Theory, Routledge. 9.Unvin, Simon (2009) Analysing Architecture, Routledge.
10._(2011) Biçim ve İşlev, ed. by. Hakan Anay ve Ülkü Özten, Eskişehir Osmangazi Üniversitesi, Mimarlık Kuram Kitaplığı

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements Number of Activities Level of Contribution
Attendance 14 % 10
Presentation 1 % 20
Midterms 1 % 30
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 12 2 24
Study Hours Out of Class 9 8 72
Presentations / Seminar 1 1 1
Midterms 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
Total Workload 101

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,