The MIK course focuses on the human sciences in order to improve urban life by removing the existing forms of life in the context of repetitive actions in a certain place. It is expected that students will learn to understand an environment by creatively observing, saving information and effectively presenting it. Since the method of teaching is based on participation, it is very important for the success of the course in the context of the students' personal participation in the class, worldviews, tendencies and personalities. This is a design workshop where participants share their own exploration and mapping potentials to explore urban dynamics to open up new horizons for conceptual approaches.
Prerequisite(s)
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Corequisite(s)
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Special Requisite(s)
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Instructor(s)
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Course Assistant(s)
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Schedule
The course is not offered this semester.
Office Hour(s)
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Teaching Methods and Techniques
-The semester starts with seminars and theoretical discussions on spatial reading and mapping. A specific place is spatially read and existing networks of relationships are discovered. The information on the time is developed in the form of a final presentation as a language for the student to share. The course is built on workshop studies. Istanbul and Turkey trips can be arranged inside or outside. Evaluation is done through workshops and final presentation. Individual and team work will be experienced.
Principle Sources
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Bu
dett, R., & Sudjic, D.
2011
Living in the Endless City
Phaidon
de Certeau, M., & Rendall, S.
2011
The Practice of Everyday Life
University of California Press
Derviş, P., & Öner, M.
2009
Mapping I
tanbul
Garanti Galeri
Foucault, M.
2012
The Order of Things
Taylor & Francis
Hensel, M., Hensel, D. S., & Ertas, H.
2011
Turkey At the Threshold: Architectural Design
Wiley
Other Sources
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Lefebvre, H.
2002
A Critique of Everyday Life
Verso Books
Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
Introduction
2. Week
Social Aspects of Architecture
Seminar, discussion
3. Week
Spatial reading techniques / communication network research
Seminar, discussion
4. Week
Mapping and presentation techniques
Seminar, discussion
5. Week
Experiencing a designated area network networks
Trip / area study
6. Week
Spatial reading / submission
Presentation and discussion
7. Week
Project: Design of a specific situation
Presentation and discussion
8. Week
Project submission
Presentation and discussion
9. Week
Project submission
Presentation and discussion
10. Week
Project submission
Presentation and discussion
11. Week
Jury: Guest jury member
Presentation and discussion
12. Week
Project submission
Presentation and discussion
13. Week
Project submission
Presentation and discussion
14. Week
Project submission
Presentation and discussion
15. Week
Final Project submission
Jury
16. Week
17. Week
Assessments
Evaluation tools
Quantity
Weight(%)
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations
6
60
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.
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
Communication: appropriate reading, writing, expressing ideas; the ability to use different representation environments to convey design thinking.
LO-2
Research: The comparative evaluation, documentation and implementation skills of the knowledge gained from the design process.
LO-3
Designing: Recreating design knowledge in the creative thinking process; the ability to achieve new and original results in the context of universal design principles such as sustainability and accessibility.
LO-4
Social Responsibility: Understanding the responsibility of the architect for the public good, respect for historical / cultural and natural resources, and for raising the quality of life.
LO-5
Teamwork and Collaboration: Ability to collaborate with project teams and multidisciplinary teams to successfully complete design and implementation projects.
