The course aims to explain housing-led renewal policies, programmes and projects in different contexts within a historical perspective and discuss contemporary programmes and projects with a critical outlook. Renewing housing areas has always been a challenge in both developed and developing countries. In order to overcome this challenge, different solutions were developed in different time periods within different political, economic and social contexts. Today, understanding the impact of the contextual circumstances on housing-led renewal policies and programmes has become a significant issue in research and discussions. This understanding enables current innovative approaches in this field to be evaluated with their specific contexts which in turn supports drawing more valuable and effective lessons.
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Corequisite(s)
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Special Requisite(s)
The minimum qualifications that are expected from the students who want to attend the course.(Examples: Foreign language level, attendance, known theoretical pre-qualifications, etc.)
Ward, P. 2015. “Editorial: Housing rehab for consolidated informal settlements: A new Policy agenda for 2016 UN-Habitat III”. Habitat International 50 (2015) 373-384.
Ward, P. M,, Jimenez Huerta, E. R. & di Virgilio, M. M. (Eds.) 2015. Housing Policy in Latin American Cities: A New Generation of Strategies and Approaches for 2016 UN-HABITAT III. USA: Routledge.
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Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
Introduction to the course
Lecture and discussion
2. Week
Historical dynamics that shaped housing-led renewal policies in developed countries: Industrial Revolution, welfare policies, de-industrialization etc
Lecture and discussion
3. Week
Housing-led renewal in North-western Europe
Lecture and discussion
4. Week
Housing-led renewal in Southern Europe
Lecture and discussion
5. Week
Housing-led renewal in Eastern Europe
Lecture and discussion
6. Week
Mid-term Exam
Exam
7. Week
Historical dynamics that shaped housing-led renewal policies in developing countries: late industrialization, rural-to-urban migration, informal housing, lack of welfare policies etc.
Lecture and discussion
8. Week
Housing-led renewal in Asia
Lecture and discussion
9. Week
Housing-led renewal in Latin America
Lecture and discussion
10. Week
Group assignments
Weekly critique
11. Week
Group assignments
Weekly critique
12. Week
Group assignment presentations
Presentations and discussion
13. Week
Group assignment presentations
Presentations and discussion
14. Week
Group assignment presentations
Presentations and discussion
15. Week
16. Week
17. Week
Assessments
Evaluation tools
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Weight(%)
Midterm(s)
1
30
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations
1
30
Final Exam
1
40
Program Outcomes
PO-1
Critical Thinking: Ability to inquire, use abstract ideas to interpret information, consider diverse points of view, reach well-reasoned conclusions.
PO-2
Communication: Ability to use appropriate representational media to transmit essential formal elements at design process.
PO-3
Investigation: Ability to gather, record, apply, and comparatively evaluate relevant information within design processes.
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Design: Ability to reproduce the design information in the creative thinking process, to reach new and original results through universal design principles such as sustainability and accessibility.
PO-5
World Architecture: Understanding world architecture in terms of their historical, geographical and global factors.
PO-6
Local Architecture / Cultural Diversity: Understanding the architectural formations and samples of a geography through its historical and cultural context. Understanding the divergent canons of cultural values, behavioral, social and spatial patterns.
PO-7
Cultural Heritage and Conservation: Understanding of conservation discourses and methods, and the subjects of cultural heritage, conservation awareness, environmental concerns and ethical responsibility.
PO-8
Sustainability: Ability to design projects by using the information regarding the natural and built environment to reduce the undesirable environmental impacts on future generations through means.
PO-9
Social Responsibility: Understanding of the architect’s responsibility about protecting the commonweal, having respect for historical/cultural and natural resources and improving the life quality.
PO-10
Nature and Human: Understanding of the relationship between human, the natural environment and the design of the built environment.
PO-11
Geographical Conditions: Understanding the relationships of site selection, settlement and building design by considering the cultural, economical and social properties as well as the natural characteristics such as soil, topography, vegetation and watershed.
PO-12
Life Safety: Understanding the basic principles of security and life-safety systems in the conditions of natural disasters, fire, etc. through building and environment scales.
PO-13
Structural Systems: Understanding of the basic principles of structural behavior in withstanding gravity and lateral forces and the evolution, range, and appropriate application of contemporary structural systems.
PO-14
Environmental Systems: Understanding the principles of physical environmental systems’ design such as lighting, acoustics, climatization and the use of appropriate performance assessment tools.
PO-15
Building Envelope Systems: Understanding of the basic principles involved in the appropriate application of building envelope systems and associated assemblies.
PO-16
Building Service Systems: Understanding of the basic design principles of building service systems such as plumbing, electrical, vertical transportation, security, and fire protection systems.
PO-17
Building Materials and Assemblies: Understanding of the basic principles utilized in the appropriate selection of construction materials, products, components and assemblies, based on their inherent characteristics and performance, including their environmental impact and reuse.
PO-18
Integration of Building Service Systems: The ability of assessing, selecting and integrating the structural, environmental, security, envelope and service systems of the buildings for building design.
PO-19
Programming and Evaluation: Ability to prepare and evaluate an architectural project program by considering the public benefits in regards of client and user needs, appropriate examplers, space and equipment requirements, financial limitations, site conditions, relevant codes, laws and design principles.
PO-20
Comprehensive Project Development: Ability to produce a comprehensive architectural project that demonstrates to make design decisions across various scales.
PO-21
Considering Building Costs: Understanding the fundamentals of building construction and use costs.
PO-22
Architect-Client Relationship: Understanding of the responsibility of the architect to elicit, understand, and reconcile the needs of the client, owner, user groups, and the public and community domains.
PO-23
Collaboration: Ability to work in collaboration with others and in multidisciplinary teams to successfully complete design projects.
PO-24
Project Management: Understanding of the methods for competing for commissions, selecting consultants and assembling teams, and recommending project delivery methods.
PO-25
Practice Management: Understanding the basic principles in the architectural practice processes like financial management, business planning, quality management, risk management, discussion and reconciliation.
PO-26
Leadership: Understanding of the techniques and skills architects use to work collaboratively in the building design and construction process and on environmental, social, and aesthetic issues in their communities.
PO-27
Legal Rights and Responsibilities:
Understanding of the architect’s responsibility to the public and the client as determined by regulations and legal considerations involving the practice of architecture.
PO-28
Professional Practice: Understanding and fulfillment of employer and intern rights and responsibilities for development of profession.
PO-29
Ethics of Profession: Understanding of the ethical issues involved in profession regarding social, political and cultural issues in architectural design and practice.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
Acquiring the ability to evaluate contemporary examples in a comparative and critical outlook in terms of current dynamics shaping housing-led renewal policy and programmes.
LO-2
Acquiring the ability to gather, record, comparatively evaluate and present relevant written and visual information concerning contemporary housing-led renewal examples.
LO-3
Gaining the knowledge on the impact of different political, economic and social contexts on the priorities, aims, contents and methods of housing-led renewal policy and programmes.
LO-4
Gaining the knowledge about the discussions on concepts and phenomena created or made apparent by housing-led renewal processes such as the right to housing/accommodation, urban poverty/deprivation, social exclusion, gentrification, participation etc.
LO-5
Acquiring the ability to work in collaboration with fellow classmates to successfully complete the research and evaluation of contemporary housing-led renewal examples.
