ARCHITECTURE
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
ARC2001	Architectural Design I	Fall	2	6	5	10

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 :	Dr. Öğr. Üyesi BELİNDA TORUS
Course Lecturer(s):	Dr. Öğr. Üyesi BERNA YAYLALI Instructor KUTSAN ÖZORAL Instructor SERENGÜL SEÇMEN Instructor GÖZDE KIZILKAN Instructor SEDA CİVELEK Instructor İLHAN AYDIN MELTEM Instructor MERİÇ ÜĞDÜL KATMERCİ Dr. Öğr. Üyesi DURNEV ATILGAN YAĞAN Dr. Öğr. Üyesi BELİNDA TORUS
Recommended Optional Program Components:	None
Course Objectives:	ARC2001 aims to develop architectural interventions and proposals that are programmatically sustainable upon research and investigations on the community commons, environmental characteristics and contextual relations of a neighborhood. The course challenges students to formulate architectural questions and responses both in short and long term thinking and reasoning.

Learning Outcomes

The students who have succeeded in this course;
The students who complete this course, will be able to:
1 record and document sites/places and make observations on existing practices of social, physical, spatial, programmatic and cultural nature in neighborhoods and of communities.
2 learn from places and profile users through their experiences, activities and practices.
3 develop programs/scenarios relating to the users.
4 use appropriate representational media, such as traditional graphic and digital technology skills, to convey ideas compatible with the stages of design processes.
5 understand the architect's responsibility to work in the public interest and to improve the quality of life for affected parties.
6 work in collaboration with others to successfully complete design projects.
7 understand the architect's criticize their peers’ works with informed and well-reasoned criteria.

Course Content

Places will be the material to reconsider in terms of social, cultural, political, technological, and contextual aspects of architectural design. Students are to search for characteristics of the site in multiple aspects (such as physical, cultural, social, natural and man-made etc.) and represent and question them with appropriate tools and techniques. Students are to study the existing and/or deteriorating commons via rehabilitating, restoring and/or envisioning new commons.
The studio is composed of two main parts. First part requires extensive study and research of sites and places of direct and indirect experience of students. Students are to observe, record, raise questions and propose small-scaled interventions in public space. A small-scaled intervention is proposed and detailed according to the findings of the first part.
Second part requires ARC2001 studio students to develop their programmatic responses for selected sites and themes. With the knowledge from the small-scaled intervention, students are to propose a program for a groups’ commons. Projects will be proposed and developed according to the themes of common studied by the students.

Weekly Detailed Course Contents

Week	Subject	Related Preparation
1)	1a –Introduction / 1b- Part 1 - Lectures, discussion and critics on site
2)	2a & 2b -Lectures, discussion and critics on site
3)	3a & 3b - Lectures, discussion and critics on site and commons
4)	4a & 4b - Discussion and critics on site and commons and small-scaled intervention
5)	5a & 5b - Interim Jury 1
6)	6a & 6b – Developing the architectural program
7)	7a & 7b - Pin-ups & critiques
8)	8a & 8b - Pin-ups & critiques
9)	9a & 9b - Interim Jury 2
10)	10a & 10b - Pin-ups & critiques
11)	11a & 11b - Pin-ups & critiques
12)	12a & 12b - Pin-ups & critiques
13)	13a & 13b – Pre-final Jury
14)	14a & 14b - Critics on final presentation

Sources

Course Notes / Textbooks:

Tasarım problemleri için seçilen konuyla ve tartışmalarla ilgili okumalar dönem boyunca paylaşılacaktır. / Related reading based on the chosen topic for the design problems and discussion will be shared during the semester.

References:

• Ching, F. (2007). Architecture: Form, Space, and Order (3rd ed.). Hoboken, New Jersey: John Wiley & Sons.
• Crase, J., Crawford, M., Kaliski, J. (Eds.) (1999). Everyday Urbanism. New York: Monacelli Press.,
• De Chiara, J., Panero, J. & Zelnik, M. (Eds.) (2001). Time-Saver Standards for Interior Design and Space Planning. New York: Mc Graw-Hill.
• Dellenbaugh, M., Kip, M., Bieniok, M., Müller, A.K., Schwegmann, M. (Eds.) (2015). Urban Commons: Moving Beyond State and Market. Basel/Berlin/Boston: Birkhäuser.
• González García, S. (Ed.) (2013). Community Centre Design. Hong Kong: Design Media Publishing Limited.
• Harvey, D. (2012). Rebel Cities: From the Right to the City to the Urban Revolution. London: Verso.
• Interior Space: Permanent and Temporary Exhibition (2007). Seoul, Korea: Archiworld.
• Mills, A. (2010). Streets of memory: Landscape, tolerance, and national identity in Istanbul. University of Georgia Press.
• Panero, J. & Zelnik, M. (1979). Human Dimension & Interior Space: A Source Book of Design Reference Standards. New York: Whitney Library of Design.
• Sanchez, J. (2020). Architecture for the Commons: Participatory Systems in the Age of Platforms. London: Routledge.

Evaluation System

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Presentation	20	% 20
Preliminary Jury	1	% 15
Final	1	% 45
Jury	1	% 20
Total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 55
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 45
Total		% 100

ECTS / Workload Table

Activities	Number of Activities	Duration (Hours)	Workload
Course Hours	28	4	112
Study Hours Out of Class	20	5	100
Preliminary Jury	1	8	8
Jury	1	10	10
Final	1	20	20
Total Workload			250

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)	Using the theoretical/conceptual and practical knowledge acquired for architectural design, design activities and research.	5
2)	Identifying, defining and effectively discussing aesthetic, functional and structural requirements for solving design problems using critical thinking methods.	5
3)	Being aware of the diversity of social patterns and user needs, values and behavioral norms, which are important inputs in the formation of the built environment, at local, regional, national and international scales.	3
4)	Gaining knowledge and skills about architectural design methods that are focused on people and society, sensitive to natural and built environment in the field of architecture.	5
5)	Gaining skills to understand the relationship between architecture and other disciplines, to be able to cooperate, to develop comprehensive projects; to take responsibility in independent studies and group work.	5
6)	Giving importance to the protection of natural and cultural values in the design of the built environment by being aware of the responsibilities in terms of human rights and social interests.	4
7)	Giving importance to sustainability in the solution of design problems and the use of natural and artificial resources by considering the social, cultural and environmental issues of architecture.	2
8)	Being able to convey and communicate all kinds of conceptual and practical thoughts related to the field of architecture by using written, verbal and visual media and information technologies.	3
9)	Gaining the ability to understand and use technical information about building technology such as structural systems, building materials, building service systems, construction systems, life safety.	2
10)	Being aware of legal and ethical responsibilities in design and application processes.	2