Mimarlık Bölümü / Department of Architecture

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3d Virtual Worlds in Collaborative Design Teaching
(Middle East Technical Univ, 2011) Gül, Leman Figen
With recent developments in communication and information technologies, using collaborative virtual environment in design practice has experienced a remarkable increase. Today. those advanced technologies also bring new challenges for design education. Particularly, employing 3D virtual worlds in design teaching, which requires the consideration of new pedagogical approaches, has been accepted and widely practiced. However, there is a general lack of formal evaluation with empirical evidence of the performance of virtual worlds and students' perception of using 3D virtual worlds in design collaboration. The paper starts with a collaborative design studio over Second Life which took place in a virtual island, 'NU Genesis', between the University of Sydney and Rangsit University. The paper presents the design outcomes and an analysis on the result of an inclusive questionnaire completed by the participated students. In this paper, based on the teaching experience in 3D virtual worlds and the results of the questionnaires, the benefits and shortcomings of virtual worlds on collaborative design education have been evaluated.
Alternative Pedagogies Integrating Architectural Design and Technology [chapter 21]
(Caleıdoscópıo, 2019) Acar, Sibel
Realization of an architectural design requires a proper structural design, suitable materials, and construction technology. Possibilities and restrictions of construction technology have always had a decisive role in materialization of architecture. Accord-ingly, architects need to be knowledgeable about structures, materials, and technol-ogy. For this reason, curricula of schools of architecture include a set of technologi-cal courses such as statics, strength of materials, basic structural analysis and related topics of building science. Most of the students, while they are struggling with calcu-lations, fail to understand the meaning of all this knowledge to a design. Because they can’t find any design relevance, students question that if this learning is ever needed by the architect. Therefore, knowledge gained is not engaged in architectural imagi-nation. This paper briefly addresses why “design” and “technology” fall apart in ar-chitectural education and then presents several examples of alternative pedagogies including the one conducted by the author to constitute a link between technological courses and design practices.
The Architect of Today on The Edge of Chaos; an Approach Through Chaos Theory
(Gazi University, 2017-02) Koç, Çiğdem; Sönmez, Murat
Today, in the frame of the transformation of the city and the social dynamics, there can be seen a congestion and repetition in the context of the city/citizen/architecture. It is possible to examine the spatial consequences of the social transformations that modern individuals experience, but only by comprehending the importance of the strong relationship between the space and the identity of individual. It seems difficult to produce ‘the new’ in architecture as long as the new ways of seeing not produced in this complex situation. Today, since the Chaos Theory gives us hope concerning the social sciences that include architecture and sociology, it can be used as a tool to investigate the current situation of architecture. Metropolitan cities can now be assumed as the most complex scene of architectural experience in the context of nonlinear natural atmosphere and linear orders created by society. There is a direct relationship between design process and the views of today's architect in the face of chaos and order. Through the Chaos Theory, this paper will discuss the views of the today’s individual on the line of complexity in daily life and the role of today’s architect on the edge of chaos. This role is evolving within the framework of the attitude and potential of the architect in today's metropolitan cities, in the face of complex problems. Therefore, this research focuses on which attitude of today’s architect can be an intervention tool to initiate the transformation of city/society.
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Architectural Literary Analysis: Reading "the Death of the Street" Through Ballard's Literature and Trancik's "lost Space"
(METU, 2015) Ultav, Zeynep Tuna; Çağlar, Tayyibe Nur; Drinkwater, S. Bahar Durmaz
[No abstract available]
Architecture and Media
(Caleidoscopio, 2022) Bancı, Selda
The modernization process of the Republic of Turkey in the early 1930s is one of the finest examples among various others, illustrating the role of communication media in the formation of modern societies. As is well known, new social orders require a systematic means of communicating ideas to achieve their goals. In this context, ar- chitecture and the built environment take on a new meaning as an enduring means of a new way of living to be realized, and correspondingly, turning into communica- tion tools. Similarly, during the same era in Turkey, the republican reforms and pol- icies attempted to communicate with the public through architecture. Subsequently, architecture, which also began the process of modernization, created its media. Thus, architectural and political thought did not seem to exist without being embodied in the media, because communicating ideas must be almost entirely mediated and me- diatized. In this sense, this chapter is concerned with the issue of the complex rela- tionships between architecture and media in the context of materializing ideas in early republican Turkey. To portray the issue, the instrumentality of mediums, such as architectural exhibitions, competitions, journals, books, photography, and film, in the materialization of ideas during the formative years of the country is addressed.
As You See: Photographic Constructs of Architecture
(Caleidoscopio, 2022) Acar, Sibel
From the earliest days of its invention, photography and architecture have been in a continuous interplay. Through photography, all kinds of images of the built envi- ronment have been produced and circulated. Photography has not been a passive or naïve tool for recording, describing, and documenting architecture. As a process of image-making, it has had many choices for picturing architecture. It renders what a camera sees in a photographic space. As a technique operated by different ways of seeing tocapture images and construct a discursive medium, photography has had significant effects on architectural imagination, design, practice, and critique. This essay aims to track photography’s implications transforming architecture by displaying several interfaces between architecture and photography.
Being Modern: Turkey and Turkish Pavilion at Expo 58
(BİLSEL, 2023) Bancı, Selda
The aim of this paper is to examine how Turkey's architecture evolved during the 1950s by focusing on the Turkish Pavilion at Expo 58. Although the pavilion was situated in Brussels for merely six months, there were plans to reconstruct it in Turkey once the Expo concluded. Unfortunately, this plan was never realized, and the pavilion was eventually forgotten. Nevertheless, despite its short existence, the pavilion holds significance in Turkish architectural literature as a remarkable instance of modern architecture. In contrast to initial assessments that primarily focused on the Pavilion's formal characteristics, this paper aims to present the Pavilion's unique architectural features. By doing so, the goal is to expand the analysis beyond the physical structure itself. This includes providing a brief overview of the broader context of Turkey and the world during the 1950s, as well as Turkish participation in this significant event. Through an examination of this particular case, the paper uncovers contrasting viewpoints regarding the modernist ideals prevalent during that era. My objective is to explore the concept of multiple modernities and how they manifest in relation to this case study.
Bioclimatic Interventions for Reducing Cooling Energy Demand in Hot and Humid Climates
(Alanya Üniversitesi, 2019-05) Dönmez, Burak; Elias, Özkan Sofia Tahira; Rahbarianyazd, Rokhsaneh; Nia, Hourakhsh A.
While development of industry and science has been tremendous, population has also increased dramatically in the last centuries. As a consequence, unchecked consumption of energy mainly based on fossil fuels is the main culprit for triggering climate change worldwide. Meanwhile, an impressive amount of energy is being used for just cooling or heating the existing building stock. The need for energy can be reduced by adopting traditional bioclimatic measures that can be tested for their appropriateness through building performance simulations. To this end, collection and evaluation of empirical data through parametric design simulations can enable predictions about the adaptability and appropriateness of different bioclimatic interventions/features in different buildings in different climates. For instance, predictions about the impact of all or a combination of some interventions on energy performance of buildings may be helpful for optimizing the retrofit design. This approach may also help to provide a design process where the parametric variations in the building design are made according to the building performance simulation outputs. The aim of this research is to determine, test, select and implement the most effective passive cooling strategies in retrofitting a local government building located in the hot and humid climate of Alanya, in Turkey
Blurring the Borders Between History and Design: a Complementary Approach in Architectural Education [chapter 20]
(Caleıdoscópıo, 2019) Gürol Öngören, Pelin
The subject matters, scope and methods of architectural history have been a matter of discussion for decades. It has been long considered something different than the his-tory of spatial and tectonic typologies that has been regarded as canon or further be-yond a bunch of architectural knowledge operating as a supportive kit to increase the quality of architectural education. Architectural history, positioned within the De-partment of Architecture since 1960s, has tended to define itself as an autonomous field by dissociating from architectural design. The answer of the following question is contradictive: “Is history an autonomous discipline or a ‘service’?” In that sense would it be possible if one calls architectural history courses neither autonomous nor service by blurring the borders between those two? Could architectural history be a basic, inseparable and complementary component of architectural design and theory?This paper is based on an academic trial that has been practiced through the first year undergraduate students in the school of architecture that I am affiliated with. The model is formulated to customize and carry out architectural history courses togeth-er with Basic Design Studio. What two courses suggest is an integrated model that relies on theory, history and design. This model also attempts to initiate a new rela-tionship with other disciplines like history, archaeology, philosophy and many oth-ers. In the overall, this paper tries to discuss the potential of a new form of learning that reveals permeable and intimate relationship with other design and other relat-ed disciplines by blurring the borders between fields.
The Book of Architecture School
(TOBB ETU Publications, 2019) TOBB Ekonomi ve Teknoloji Üniversitesi; Öztoprak, Zelal; Sipahioğlu, Işıl Ruhi; Çağlar, T. Nur
Borderline: an Interdisciplinary Spatial Installation
(İstanbul Kültür University, 2022) Acar, Aktan; Koç, Mustafa; Bancı, Selda; Abbas, Günsu Merin
The relation of architecture and technology has always been a necessity and dependent on each other. The advancements in technology and understanding of both fields made this relation inseparable. Technology has always shaped the design parameters in history and continues to with increasing effect. Architectural education should embrace such a relation to adapt to the changes. The first-year basic design studio at TOBB ETU, considers that ways of thinking and producing together with technology should be a part of architectural design education. This paper is motivated by and the coupling of technology and architecture at the firstyear basic design studio. In this respect, the content of the course challenges the students to question the relationship between technology and design, space, and technology. In this context, the collective working within the scope of assignments is accentuated during the course. The “BORDERLINE” installation is a work created in this context in 2017 with the participation of all basic design studio students that is shaped during the semester by students' discussions, interactive work, and exchange of ideas in the studio. The core of the work was that the students aimed to demonstrate changing boundaries of space by using technology. To this end, the spaces are designed to physically change with human interaction by using Arduino programmable boards, sensors, and DC motors. Six 1x2 m modules consisting of 8x0.15 m fabric strips are assembled. The length of the fabric strips changes by Arduino boards and DC motors according to feedback from the sensors. Borderline is not only a spatial installation but also a study on the impact of technology on space and the results of interdisciplinary education. Borderline, as an interdisciplinary work, aimed to couple the methods of different disciplines. At a time when technology shapes design parameters, Borderline was designed and realized by thinking about architecture together with technology. First-year architecture education is the period in which space, the tools that make space possible, and design as a form of research and learning are explored. In this sense, such a period should embrace an interdisciplinary approach to develop fundamental infrastructure for unexplored practices
Brutalism: as a Preferred Style for Institutional Buildings in Modern Architecture Period
(EDP Sciences, 2021) İmani, E.; İmani, S.
From the 1950s onward, Brutalist style spread all over the world and dedicate many breathtaking architectural movements to buildings. Architect's opinion about this prominent approach to building design varies greatly. Brutalist style has known primarily for its aesthetics and property for institutional buildings with the use of functional reinforced concrete, steel, modular, and repetitive elements. Besides all advantages of brutalism, this style is sharply criticized for being cold, crude, cruel, and not appropriate for many climates. Brutalism also became popular with governmental and institutional buildings in modern architecture period and most of the well-known university campuses were built in this style. The purpose of this paper is to study the adaptability of brutalist style with institutional buildings and evaluate it from this point of view. Three institutional buildings have been selected as case studies for evaluating in this research such as The Royal College of Physicians, Brunel University Lecture Theatre, and Metu faculty of architecture. Due to this study, Brutalist style through their fire-resistant and durable materials which don't need to be renovated constantly is suitable for institutional buildings. © The Authors, published by EDP Sciences, 2021.
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Building Typologies in Between the Vernacular and the Modern: Antakya (antioch) in the Early 20th Century
(Sage Publications Inc, 2020) Bilgi, Elif Mihcioğlu; Tümer, Ege Uluca
Antakya, also known as Antioch, is a special historic city for many reasons. It has maintained a unique blend of authentic values that result from a deep historical background, a rich culture, and a diverse religious population living together with tolerance and in peace for centuries. As a city in the southeastern corner of Turkey near Syria, its rich cultural identity is reflected in various aspects and parts of the city. Kurtulus Avenue is one of the major urban axes of Antakya and is a remarkable case. It stands out from other parts of the city for having a unique architectural style that is defined by an interesting group of buildings with characteristics between vernacular and modern. Kurtulus Avenue, a version of the ancient Herod Road, was widened and redirected during the French Mandate Period. Half of its buildings were demolished and renewed and the other half were renovated and reused, creating this particular group of buildings that define this new main artery with a new Western architectural style. The buildings are the products of a nuanced synthesis with common references to vernacular and modern architecture. Kurtulus Avenue can be considered as a good example for the reflections of the transformations from vernacular to modern architecture and can help to understand this process from a different perspective. With the aim of analyzing, defining, and presenting the reflections of the transformations of urban and architectural characteristics of the buildings located along Kurtulus Avenue, urban morphology and typo-morphological methods are used.
A Cartography of Contemporary Earthen Buildings in Türkiye
(IKSAD Publishing House, 2024) Gedikli, Furkan Taha; Ruhi Sipahioğlu, Işıl; Pedergnana, Matthieu Joseph
Earthen construction techniques hold promise in fostering sustainable practices in resource utilization and environmental impact mitigation compared to conventional carbon-intensive techniques. Despite inherent challenges such as standardization issues and the pursuit of mass production characteristic of the "Industrial Revolution," earthen construction techniques have regained attention and spurred discussions on their contemporary applicability, facilitated by latest technological advancements and awareness of their sustainability.Türkiye boasts a rich heritage of earthen architecture, with contemporary practitioners continuing to innovate within this traditional craft. This study is part of on-going master thesis research that aims to assess the positioning, potential, hurdles, and underlying factors influencing the limited adoption of earthen construction methods and materials within the mainstream construction sector in Türkiye. By characterizing earth construction practices as a distinct "Niche" within the broader industry, this research seeks to elucidate and validate its status within the Turkish context.To understand this niche practice in this context, this ongoing study conducts interviews with people working in this field. Apart from the qualitative analysis of these interviews, this cartography maps the various types of modern earthen buildings in Türkiye as well as their geographical distribution. It documents the different techniques, architectural characteristics, and materials used by architects, engineers, and builders. The mapping data is attained through the structured questionnaire sent to interviewees and individuals working in the field. By achieving these objectives, the study aims to provide valuable insights into the status and potential of earthen construction practices within Türkiye's construction industry, informing future strategies for sustainable building practices in the region.
Çebiş Evi’nden Hisartepe’ye
(TMMOB Mimarlar Odası İstanbul Büyükkent Şubesi, 2019) Bancı, Selda
[No abstract available]
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Collective Residential Spaces in Sustainability Development: Turkish Housing Units Within Co-Living Understanding
(Institute of Physics Publishing, 2019-07) Ataman, Cem; Dino, I. G.
Housing models that target rather typical family structures are increasingly failing to meet the needs of the new social changes regarding the rapid urbanization due to the mass-migration to cities, the lack of affordable housing, and the adoption of the sharing economy practices. As an architectural counterpart of the social dimension of sustainable development, co-living is introduced as a connected way of living, enabling sustainable living practices through efficient use of resources and space while sharing consumption. With respect to this, adapted collective residential units (namely informal co-living environments) come into use in places where affording a house becomes a challenging aspect and the conventional residential units do not reflect the transforming social demographics and economy. The reflection of the requirements of changing social and economic structures on urban settings can be seen in Turkish houses as well. This research, accordingly, focuses on co-living environments in Ankara, Turkey that were transformed from typical single-family residential units by its residents. Through investigating these co-living spaces, it is aimed to contribute to the current understanding of co-living practices, explore the spatial, economic and social underpinnings of these living models, and their relevance to the sustainable development while presenting initial findings regarding spatial use that can be of guidance for future co-living design processes. © 2019 IOP Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved.
Confrontation With Future Anxiety in Architectural Design Studio
(Eindhoven University of Technology, 2022) Bancı, Selda
[No Abstract Available]
Dark Ecology in Industrial Areas: the Case of Turkish Sugar Factories
(Caleidoscopio, 2022) Sönmez, Murat
The sugar industry is one of the most important representatives of industrialization and modernization in Turkey. Sugar Factories have become the tools of urban and social transformation and developed the regions where they are established. But, over time, the ideologies that formed sugar factories decayed. Such a decay could be caused by reasons such as the lack of adaptation to the changing economic and technological conditions in a short time, the restriction of sugar production with the amendments made to the law, the inability to maintain the continuity of the modern daily life in the campus areas. In this respect, this study is to discuss the dark-depression faced by the sugar industry theoretically within the framework of Timothy Morton’s con- cept of Dark Ecology. This phenomenon is developed from ecological awareness and is dark-depressing. This concept is a way of thinking about future coexistence called Dark Ecology. Sugar factories will become inactive and turn into brownfields as an inevitable end of all industrial areas such as the Ruhr region in Germany and Dock- lands in England. When the day of this inactivity comes, methods of accepting the dark sides of these areas and living with them have to be found. With this discussion, the uncertain future of sugar factories, which are the places of industrialization and modernization, will be approached with the new-dark perspective created by Timo- thy Morton. Thus, it will be possible to contribute to the infrastructure for the future of the areas theoretically.
Dialogue Between Architecture and Material Sciences for Sustainable Urban Ecosystems: Biodegradable Polymer Plastic Seed Capsule Production Process for Porous Concrete Structures
(İstanbul Kültür University, 2022) Duran, Hatice; Acar, Aktan; Aşçı, Cem; Öztaş, İsmail; Tiftik, Öznur
The presented study introduces an interdisciplinary and inter-scale collaborative research project of the Department of Material Science and Nanotechnology Engineering and the Department of Architecture. The main objective of the project is to investigate appropriate methods of developing polymer capsules made of upcycled waste plastics for plant seeds, which are to place in permeable/porous concrete mixture. Furthermore, we plan to modify recycled plastic to make it biodegradable. Porous concrete is a special type of concrete with a high permeability rate due to its material composition. It is composed of narrowly-graded course aggregate, cement or cementitious materials, and water. It does not include sand. Therefore, it is able to transmit water and air because of its inner voids, 15-35% compared to conventional concrete. The voids are considered for seed capsules. The teams of Material Science and Nanotechnology Engineering and Architecture discussed and elaborated on the issues and problems of developing waste plastic upcycling for biodegradable seed capsules in porous concrete. The recycling of waste plastic, thermal conditions of porous concrete during curing, uniformity, controllability, versatility, mass-productivity, high efficiency, and reproductivity of polymer encapsulation methods for properly scaled dimensions have been considered. The process has been formulated but could not have been tested due to the pandemic. It is planned to carry out the project in early 2022. It is our utmost concern to initiate projective and experimental research for innovate technological advancement and know-how to introduce, develop and settle new, smart, resilient, and sustainable human-nature ecosystems and biodiversity by means of creative dialogue/collaboration among various disciplines and professions.
Digital Materiality of Historic Heritage Sites Through Augmented Reality
(Caleidoscopio, 2022) Çalışkan, Şeyma Nur; Acar, Aktan
[No Abstract Available]

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