Within the scope of Human, Environment and Spatial Studies, research on human environment and the spatial perception are examined in order to assist architectural design
Prerequisite(s)
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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.)
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The course will be supported with the help of slides and papers. Students are asked to research a subject and expected to present on, according to their determinations.
Principle Sources
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Lang, J., 1987, Creating Architectural Theory: The Role of the Behavioral Sciences in Environmental Design, New York, Van Nostrand Reinhold Co.
Lynch, K., 1960. The Image of the City, Cambridge, Mass: MIT Press.
Lynch, K., 1977. Growing Up in Cities: Studies of the Spatial Environment of Adolescence in Crakow, Melbourne, Mexico City, Salta, Toluca, and Warszawa, The MIT Press, Cambridge, massachusetts, and London, Englend, UNESCO, Paris,
Rapoport, A., 1969, House Form and Culture, Englewood Cliffs, N.J. Prentice Hall.
Rapoport, A., 2004, Kültür, Mimarlık Tasarım, Yapı Yayınları, ISBN:9758599526
Norberg-Schulz, C. (1979) Genıus Loci, Towards a Phenomenology of Architecture,Rizzoli, Newyork.
Le Corbusier. (1987). The City of Tomorrow and Its Planning, The Architecture Press, London.
Tschumi,B. (1994). The Manhattan Transcripts, Academy Editions,NY.
Ünügür,M.,Hacıhasanoğlu,O.,Turgut,H.,(1997).Culture and Space in Home Environment, Globus-Dünya Basınevi, İstanbul.
Norberg-Schulz, C. (1985) The Concept of Dwelling, On the Way to Figurative Architecture, Electa/Rizzoli, Newyork.
Pallasmaa, J. (2011). Tenin Gözleri, YEM Yayın-177, İstanbul.
Baudrillard, J., Nouvel,J., (2011). Tekil Nesneler: Mimarlık ve Felsefe, YEM Yayın-178, İstanbul.
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Course Schedules
Week
Contents
Learning Methods
1. Week
Introduction to course terms and issues
Lecture
2. Week
Researchs on human-environment and space
Lecture
3. Week
Theories on environmental perception 1
Lecture
4. Week
Theories on environmental perception 2
Lecture
5. Week
Changes in public spaces and daily life: Concepts on new housing-business life and transformation of spaces
Lecture
6. Week
Changes of representation in public and physical space: New information transfer, virtual reality, technology, and intelegent spaces
Lecture
7. Week
Mid-term exam
Exam
8. Week
Living in a new metropolitian and spatial organization
Lecture
9. Week
presentation 1
10. Week
presentation 2
11. Week
presentation 3
12. Week
presentation 4
13. Week
presentation 5
14. Week
presentation 6
15. Week
16. Week
17. Week
Assessments
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Weight(%)
Homework / Term Projects / Presentations
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50
Final Exam
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50
Program Outcomes
PO-1
To gain knowledge and understand the socio-economical and spatial components and processes which are both the subjects and the outcomes of an urban design project.
PO-2
To gain knowledge and critical awareness about the relations in between urban design and the other disciplines like architecture, urban planning, economy and sociology; and the opportunuties and threats that will arise by these relations.
PO-3
Ability to realize an urban design project or a research on urban design in a multidisciplinary process, using both the theoretical and practical knowledge infrastructure, developing new methods and techniques.
PO-4
Ability to direct socio-economical and spatial components and processes in the urban design process.
PO-5
Ability to make research, to analyse and to criticise in the area of academical knowledge and design processes, using the appropriate techniques, producing original results.
PO-6
To gain competency on conducting an indivudial research or project on urban design.
PO-7
To gain competency on working as a group member and to work out the complicated processes that will occur during the urban design.
PO-8
To gain competency to transfer the knowledge gained using a foreign language, both in verbal and visual way, via contemporary computer programmes and techniques.
PO-9
To gain competancy to produce an original academical/scientific research, to present and to discuss in a dialectical framework.
PO-10
To gain competency on strategical decision making as a component of the urban design project and to produce original solutions considering ethical values.
Learning Outcomes
LO-1
Learn the theories of environmental perception
LO-2
Investigate the relationship between perception, body and space in new physical media
LO-3
Design the new physical spaces in the context of transformed external factors
LO-4
Investigate the relationship between home-office-space with the context of changes on daily life order.
LO-5
Becoming an architect who can research and examine architectural design outputs in every situation.
