PALACE ARCHITECTURE IN ISTANBUL AND ITS CONSERVATION PROBLEMS
Course Code
Semester
Course Name
LE/RC/LA
Course Type
Language of Instruction
ECTS
MIM0320
PALACE ARCHITECTURE IN ISTANBUL AND ITS CONSERVATION PROBLEMS
3/0/0
DE
Turkish
4
Course Goals
Ottoman palaces are complex buildings which include the buildings of sultan’s residence and imperial management center. General settlement and architectural styles of buildings are different. Evaluation of the principles of architectural design of Ottoman palaces between Turkish and Islamic palaces are imported. Today the palaces in İstanbul are belong to different foundations. There are some conservational problems arising from having different ownership.
Seçkin, N., “Osmanlı Mimarisi’nde 15. Yüzyıla İlişkin İki Saray Yerleşimi: Edirne (Yeni) Sarayı ve Topkapı Sarayı”, 9. Milletlerarası Türk Sanatı Kongresi Bildiriler, KB Yayınları, Ankara, 1705, Kongre Dizisi/20-1, 1995, C.3, s. 178-190.
Seçkin, N., “Observations on the Restoration Techniques of the Çırağan Palace”, International Conference on Studies in Ancient Structures, YTÜ, İstanbul, 14-18 July 1997, YTÜ Yayını, İstanbul, 1997, s. 633-642.
Seçkin, N., Topkapı Sarayının Biçimlenmesine Egemen Olan Tasarım Gelenekleri Üzerine Bir Araştırma, (1453-1755), A.K.D.T.Y.K. Atatürk Kültür Merkezi Başkanlığı Yayınları: 163, Ankara, 1998.
Seçkin, N., Çırağan Sarayı: Tarihçesi, Mimarisi ve Yenilenmesi, Yıldız Teknik Üniversitesi, yayınlanmamış Doçentlik çalışması, İstanbul, 1998.
Seçkin, N., “Arşiv Belgeleri Işığında Geç Dönem bir Osmanlı Sarayı: Çırağan Sarayı”, İstanbul Dergisi, Tarih Vakfı Yayını, İstanbul, Sayı: 36, Ocak 2001, s.12-19.
Seçkin, N., “Topkapı Sarayı’nda Işık ve Gölge”, Japon Devlet Televizyonu (NHK), NHK Special Dizisi, Mart 2004, Japonya (danışmanlık ve sunum).
Seçkin, N., “19, Yüzyıl İstanbul Saraylarında Sultan Hamamları”, 150. Yılında Dolmabahçe Sarayı Uluslararası Sempozyumu, 23-26 Kasım 2006, Bildiriler, I. Cilt, Dolmabahçe Sarayı, İstanbul, 2007, s.294-315.
Seçkin, N., “Topkapı Sarayı Birinci Avlu Onarımları”, Mimarist, Mimarlık Kültürü Dergisi, sayı:26 (Kış 2007), TMMOB, Mimarlar Odası İstanbul Büyükkent Şubesi, 2007, İstanbul, s.75-78.
General Information about Palaces around the World
Lecture
3. Week
General Information about Palaces around the World
Lecture
4. Week
Ottoman Palaces outside of Istanbul: Edirne Palace
Lecture
5. Week
Palace and Kiosks in Istanbul
Lecture
6. Week
Topkapı Palace
Excursion/Presentation
7. Week
Beylerbeyi Palace
Excursion/Presentation
8. Week
Dolmabahçe Palace
Excursion/Presentation
9. Week
Ihlamur Kiosk
Excursion/Presentation
10. Week
Küçüksu Kiosk
Excursion/Presentation
11. Week
Maslak Kiosks
Excursion/Presentation
12. Week
Yıldız Palace
Excursion/Presentation
13. Week
Term Project Control
Lecture
14. Week
Term Project Submission
Submission
15. Week
16. Week
17. Week
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations
1
25
Attendance
1
15
Final Exam
1
60
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.
PO-4
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
To have detailed information about architectural characteristics of Ottoman palaces with different dates, functions, designs, materials and dimensions. (knowledge)
LO-2
To be able to estimate and determine design principles of Ottoman palaces according to Turkish and Islamic palaces.(ability)
LO-3
To be able to examine different factors of conservation problems in historic palaces. (ability)
LO-4
To be able to interpret and evaluate problems of historic palaces in order to conservation principles.(ability)
LO-5
To be able to evalute the environmental conditions of historic palaces and their relations with the people. (competence)
