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Arch 102 Introduction to Architectural Design
Studio Instructors
Arch101 Basic Design
Assoc. Prof. Selahattin Önür
Asst. Prof. Mine Özkar
Part Time Inst. Derin İnan
Res. Asst. Pınar Aykaç
Res. Asst. Gökhan Kınayoğlu
Res. Asst. Güler Özyıldıran
Arch102 Introduction to Architectural Design
Assoc. Prof. Selahattin Önür
Asst. Prof. Mine Özkar
Inst. Dr. Nihal Bursa
Part Time Inst. Derin İnan
Res. Asst. Pınar Aykaç
Res. Asst. Gökhan Kınayoğlu
Res. Asst. Nida Naycı
Res. Asst. Güler Özyıldıran
Assoc. Prof. Selahattin Önür
Asst. Prof. Mine Özkar
Part Time Inst. Derin İnan
Res. Asst. Pınar Aykaç
Res. Asst. Gökhan Kınayoğlu
Res. Asst. Güler Özyıldıran
Arch102 Introduction to Architectural Design
Assoc. Prof. Selahattin Önür
Asst. Prof. Mine Özkar
Inst. Dr. Nihal Bursa
Part Time Inst. Derin İnan
Res. Asst. Pınar Aykaç
Res. Asst. Gökhan Kınayoğlu
Res. Asst. Nida Naycı
Res. Asst. Güler Özyıldıran
Arch 101 Basic Design
Projects
The first semester of the beginning year aims at preparing the students to the general trait of design through exercises where they are expected to acquire a sense of order, develop strategies for organization, mental and manual skills as well as visual and spatial values for structuring compositions in different media. The very first exercise in 2007-2008 academic year aimed at encouraging the students to think about what architectural design might entail. The students were asked to walk around, choose and photograph a space from inside the Faculty of Architecture to discuss what makes it designed. In this publication, we present a visual selection of only a few of the semester assignments.
Assignment 3 and 4
With the objective of studying relations between various forms, students were asked to organize a number of shapes based on three-dimensional transparent objects on a sheet of a given size. Observed at visits to the Anatolian Civilizations Museum, the Roman Baths, and the Augustus Temple, ancient inscriptions served as the elements of one other similar organization.
Assignment 6
With the aim of studying rhythmic relations in spatial organizations, students were asked to build a relief by simply folding out a predefined basic geometric shape from a five-layered corrugated cardboard. Discussions focused on the repetitions and variations, as well as different hierarchies of relations between the elements of design that is the folded out individual and grouped flaps.
Assignment 7
Encouraged to look at forms in nature that have a strong solid-void relation as a dominant value, students were asked to carve out a three-dimensional composition which focuses on the relations of solids and voids. Understanding and making use of the potentials of the specified material and a formal quality achieved for both the solids and the voids were essential in this exercise.
Assignment 8
In their first fully three dimensional exercise, students were asked to build up a simple prism by using the cut-and-fold technique. The elements of the composition were defined as folded planes and the volumes that they define. Relations between pairs and larger groups of design elements were explored and analyzed graphically according to formal properties they embody together. During the process, students were encouraged to carefully observe the different volumes defined in terms of how they control the light.
Final Assignment
A solo dancer, who travels with a well-known circus from town to town, performs his art to the people in a public open space. Wherever the circus goes, he takes along his stage, which is demountable and made from tensile and stickform elements, behind his caravan. Students were asked to design the stage with the spatial settings for a music composed with four parts, each with its characteristically distinct thematic variation. Along with the design principles focused on throughout the semester, togetherness of four different thematic variations in a single cubic volume, use of tensile and stickform elements both as structural and as design elements were the main criteria of the project.
The first semester of the beginning year aims at preparing the students to the general trait of design through exercises where they are expected to acquire a sense of order, develop strategies for organization, mental and manual skills as well as visual and spatial values for structuring compositions in different media. The very first exercise in 2007-2008 academic year aimed at encouraging the students to think about what architectural design might entail. The students were asked to walk around, choose and photograph a space from inside the Faculty of Architecture to discuss what makes it designed. In this publication, we present a visual selection of only a few of the semester assignments.
Assignment 3 and 4
With the objective of studying relations between various forms, students were asked to organize a number of shapes based on three-dimensional transparent objects on a sheet of a given size. Observed at visits to the Anatolian Civilizations Museum, the Roman Baths, and the Augustus Temple, ancient inscriptions served as the elements of one other similar organization.
Assignment 6
With the aim of studying rhythmic relations in spatial organizations, students were asked to build a relief by simply folding out a predefined basic geometric shape from a five-layered corrugated cardboard. Discussions focused on the repetitions and variations, as well as different hierarchies of relations between the elements of design that is the folded out individual and grouped flaps.
Assignment 7
Encouraged to look at forms in nature that have a strong solid-void relation as a dominant value, students were asked to carve out a three-dimensional composition which focuses on the relations of solids and voids. Understanding and making use of the potentials of the specified material and a formal quality achieved for both the solids and the voids were essential in this exercise.
Assignment 8
In their first fully three dimensional exercise, students were asked to build up a simple prism by using the cut-and-fold technique. The elements of the composition were defined as folded planes and the volumes that they define. Relations between pairs and larger groups of design elements were explored and analyzed graphically according to formal properties they embody together. During the process, students were encouraged to carefully observe the different volumes defined in terms of how they control the light.
Final Assignment
A solo dancer, who travels with a well-known circus from town to town, performs his art to the people in a public open space. Wherever the circus goes, he takes along his stage, which is demountable and made from tensile and stickform elements, behind his caravan. Students were asked to design the stage with the spatial settings for a music composed with four parts, each with its characteristically distinct thematic variation. Along with the design principles focused on throughout the semester, togetherness of four different thematic variations in a single cubic volume, use of tensile and stickform elements both as structural and as design elements were the main criteria of the project.
Arch 102 Introduction to Architectural Design
Landmarking a Point of Transition
Projects
Objective: Developing a sense of structure through forces of compression and tension
It is expected to design an object by uniting 15-18 structural units of tensegrity that will mark a boundary, a point of transition in the boundary a turning point. Planes with any of the surface values of color, opacity, transparency, translucency and texture can be introduced.
Objective: Developing a sense of structure through forces of compression and tension
It is expected to design an object by uniting 15-18 structural units of tensegrity that will mark a boundary, a point of transition in the boundary a turning point. Planes with any of the surface values of color, opacity, transparency, translucency and texture can be introduced.
Carrel for an Artisan Jewellery Maker
Projects
Objective: Acquiring an understanding of a design process involving human component.
As a preliminary study in this project, students are introduced into an initial experience of working on human body by building the model of one yoga pose already tried out. The aim is to grasping the size and proportional relationships of human body, therefore increasing awareness of the interactive relationship between human body and its space.
Following this stage, they are expected to design a module to work-in, a carrel for an artisan jewelry maker. Regarding the spatial requirements of such a small scale manufacturing, that will be a space sculpted for the movements and the activities of an artisan jewelry maker who needs to use the space efficiently and safely. Each individual module will eventually be plugged into an ensemble of its own kind, so it will sustain the cooperative system in the guild as well as offering private spaces for this small scale production.
Each carrel is expected to be conceived within the bounds of an invisible cube of 3m; usable working space will occupy approximately 12 m3 of the total volume of cube.
Medium and method: Corrugated cardboard and wire. Three corrugated cardboard planes each having one of the cross-sections of the space will intersect each other, so as to be major components of your structure. Then, parallel lines of wire at successive intervals will be constructed in relation to the cardboard planes to define boundaries of the carrel space. The model will be to the scale of 1/10.
Objective: Acquiring an understanding of a design process involving human component.
As a preliminary study in this project, students are introduced into an initial experience of working on human body by building the model of one yoga pose already tried out. The aim is to grasping the size and proportional relationships of human body, therefore increasing awareness of the interactive relationship between human body and its space.
Following this stage, they are expected to design a module to work-in, a carrel for an artisan jewelry maker. Regarding the spatial requirements of such a small scale manufacturing, that will be a space sculpted for the movements and the activities of an artisan jewelry maker who needs to use the space efficiently and safely. Each individual module will eventually be plugged into an ensemble of its own kind, so it will sustain the cooperative system in the guild as well as offering private spaces for this small scale production.
Each carrel is expected to be conceived within the bounds of an invisible cube of 3m; usable working space will occupy approximately 12 m3 of the total volume of cube.
Medium and method: Corrugated cardboard and wire. Three corrugated cardboard planes each having one of the cross-sections of the space will intersect each other, so as to be major components of your structure. Then, parallel lines of wire at successive intervals will be constructed in relation to the cardboard planes to define boundaries of the carrel space. The model will be to the scale of 1/10.
Sculpturing the Terrain for a Summer Arts & Architecture Workshop in Cunda
Projects
Objectives:
a- Developing the ability to establish a hierarchy of relationships between parts and whole while fulfilling functional requirements.
b- Achieving a conscientious and responsible design approach while reflecting on previous experiences in the semester.
The previous surveying study on the formal components of the existing traditional environment in Cunda is followed by a design study to create an environment to accommodate a summer workshop for a group of students to make architectural survey on the natural terrain south to the small chapel of St. John (the Agios Yannis Chapel) and the wind mill, which are located at the highest point in Cunda. This terrain is also bounded by a narrow street on the south which was part of the key routes of the historic settlement. It will mainly be an accommodation of open and semi-enclosed spaces for university students who will be preparing documents of their architectural survey in Cunda. Besides, participation of local children to some of the workshop activities is promoted to increase interaction. These spaces should provide;
- an appropriate setting for accomplishing the task for surveying, i.e. producing technical drawings, finalizing the analyses, etc. considering spaces to contain individual and group work.
- various spots for making free-hand sketches from the environment so as to provide a changing relationship to the surroundings and to orient the viewing eye.
This steep terrain should be conceived as a succession of open spaces defined by sculpting the ground surface and building few extensions where necessary. The windmill and the chapel restored recently as a public library stand as strong elements, as landmarks, confining the site on the north.
The street on the south will also be considered as a significant part of the spatial scenario acting as one of the prominent approach points to this site.
Masonry construction will be used for supporting the sculpted ground along with a timber frame system.
Objectives:
a- Developing the ability to establish a hierarchy of relationships between parts and whole while fulfilling functional requirements.
b- Achieving a conscientious and responsible design approach while reflecting on previous experiences in the semester.
The previous surveying study on the formal components of the existing traditional environment in Cunda is followed by a design study to create an environment to accommodate a summer workshop for a group of students to make architectural survey on the natural terrain south to the small chapel of St. John (the Agios Yannis Chapel) and the wind mill, which are located at the highest point in Cunda. This terrain is also bounded by a narrow street on the south which was part of the key routes of the historic settlement. It will mainly be an accommodation of open and semi-enclosed spaces for university students who will be preparing documents of their architectural survey in Cunda. Besides, participation of local children to some of the workshop activities is promoted to increase interaction. These spaces should provide;
- an appropriate setting for accomplishing the task for surveying, i.e. producing technical drawings, finalizing the analyses, etc. considering spaces to contain individual and group work.
- various spots for making free-hand sketches from the environment so as to provide a changing relationship to the surroundings and to orient the viewing eye.
This steep terrain should be conceived as a succession of open spaces defined by sculpting the ground surface and building few extensions where necessary. The windmill and the chapel restored recently as a public library stand as strong elements, as landmarks, confining the site on the north.
The street on the south will also be considered as a significant part of the spatial scenario acting as one of the prominent approach points to this site.
Masonry construction will be used for supporting the sculpted ground along with a timber frame system.
