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Master | TR-NQF-HE: Level 7 | QF-EHEA: Second Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 7 |
Course Code | Course Name | Semester | Theoretical | Practical | Credit | ECTS |
ARC5502 | Digital Design in Architecture | Fall Spring |
3 | 0 | 3 | 12 |
The course opens with the approval of the Department at the beginning of each semester |
Language of instruction: | En |
Type of course: | Departmental Elective |
Course Level: | |
Mode of Delivery: | Face to face |
Course Coordinator : | Assoc. Prof. SUZAN GİRGİNKAYA AKDAĞ |
Course Lecturer(s): |
Assoc. Prof. SUZAN GİRGİNKAYA AKDAĞ |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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 |
Course Notes: | 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. Saunder, A.(2009) Baroque Parameters. in Puglisi, L. P. (ed)Theoretical Meltdown, Wiley & Sons, Oxford. |
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Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
Attendance | % 0 | |
Laboratory | % 0 | |
Application | % 0 | |
Field Work | % 0 | |
Special Course Internship (Work Placement) | % 0 | |
Quizzes | % 0 | |
Homework Assignments | % 0 | |
Presentation | % 0 | |
Project | 2 | % 40 |
Seminar | % 0 | |
Midterms | % 0 | |
Preliminary Jury | % 0 | |
Final | 1 | % 60 |
Paper Submission | % 0 | |
Jury | % 0 | |
Bütünleme | % 0 | |
Total | % 100 | |
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 0 | |
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 100 | |
Total | % 100 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Workload | |
Course Hours | 14 | 42 | |
Laboratory | |||
Application | 2 | 4 | |
Special Course Internship (Work Placement) | |||
Field Work | |||
Study Hours Out of Class | 13 | 68 | |
Presentations / Seminar | |||
Project | |||
Homework Assignments | 1 | 30 | |
Quizzes | |||
Preliminary Jury | |||
Midterms | |||
Paper Submission | |||
Jury | |||
Final | 1 | 1 | |
Total Workload | 145 |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Low | 3 Average | 4 High | 5 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
1) | Develops the conceptual/theoretical and practical knowledge gained in undergraduate level to higher proficiency level. | |
2) | Be able to conduct researches at proficiency level in Architecture and related disciplines individually and participate or take responsibility in groups. | |
3) | Demostrate an ability to develop new approaches and produce knowledge at proficiency level researches both in architecture and related disciplines. | |
4) | Apply critical thinking methods , identify, formulate, and effectively communicate the critical issues involved in the solution of design problems. | |
5) | Evaluate the phenomena in Architectural History and analyse historical, social, political backgrounds of the contemporary developments . | |
6) | Be able to conduct qualitatif and quantitatif researches on the discipline of Architecture. | |
7) | Be able to communicate the results of his researches, design proposals , conceptual and practical thoughts in the field of architecture using written, oral, visual media | |
8) | Develops the lifelong learning abilities. | |
9) | Engage social, legal, ethical and aesthetical responsibility in the discipline of architecture. |