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.
İşbirlikli Mimari Tasarım Eğitiminde Sanal Dünya Kullanımı
(2011) Gül, Leman Figen
Üç Boyutlu (3B) sanal dünyaların işbirlikli tasarım eğitiminde gelişen bir bilişim aracı olarak kullanılması son yıllarda artan bir kabul görmeye başlamıştır. Bu makalede 3B sanal dünyaların mimari tasarım eğitiminde kullanımına dair bir atölye çalışması konu edilmiştir. Öğrenciler uzak coğrafyadaki takım arkadaşlarıyla birlikte sanal dünyada bir ev tasarlamışlardır. Newcastle Üniversitesi (Avustralya) ile Rangsit Üniversitesi’ndeki (Tayland) mimarlık öğrencilerinin katılımıyla gerçekleştirilen bu sanal tasarım atölyesi detaylarıyla ele alınmıştır. Atölyenin tamamlanmasını takiben yapılan anket çalışması ve gözlemlerimize yer verilmiştir. İşbirlikli tasarım atölyesinde kullanılan 3B sanal dünyanın desteklediği ve kısıtlama getirdiği unsurlar tespit edilmiştir. Bu makale teknik ve yöntemsel olarak deneyimlerimizden çıkardığımız sonuçları ve işbirlikli tasarım eğitim platformu olarak 3B sanal dünyalar ile ilgili çeşitli değerlendirmelerimizi içermektedir.
Supporting Architectural Design Competences Via Theoretical Courses
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2012) Sağlam, Hakan
Today Architectural education is one of the most questioned area with respect to its content and form. The debate frame is mostly concentrating on teaching methods, processes of education, credit systems, competencies, and how those competencies are to be tested. The problem is the cohesiveness of architectural competencies of the graduates into global conditions. In this context, the design studios as the backbone of the architectural education have started to involve in their agenda all kinds of new methods and theories concerning contemporary architecture. Loaded with these concerns the teaching staffs of M 102 Design studio in Gazi University have initiated a course "The development of architectural space idea" which found its place in curriculum. The aim of this paper is discuss our elective course, offered for the 3rd year students of architecture, "The Development of Architectural Space Idea". It is a reaction to the degradation effect of that popular culture. The impact of that culture as a "contempor ary approach" is getting stronger not only on architecture in practice but also the education. Under those circumstances, it was a necessity to manifest our perspective on Architecture, space and identity of the Architect. Briefly, our goal is to initiate awareness in students about the ruling - innate ideas and content behind styles, movements, and forms. It is our utmost concern to motivate them to consider the real but unseen, and sometimes ignored, content and components of architecture in their personal - professional - aesthetic judgments. By this way, it would be possible to construct an intellectual-individual competency base on which the professional - technical qualifications could be built upon. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer review under responsibility of Prof. Ayse Cakir Ilhan
Citation - Scopus: 9
Evaluating the Modes of Communication: a Study of Collaborative Design in Virtual Environments
(2012) Gül, L. F.; Wang X.; Çağdaş, G.
With the recent developments in communication and information technologies using Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) in design activity has experienced a significant increase. In this paper, a collaborative learning activity between the University of Sydney (USYD), and the Istanbul Technical University (ITU), Global Teamwork, is presented. This paper explores the use of asynchronous and synchronous communication modes during design activity in a remote context. The paper continues with an evaluation study of the Global Teamwork based on the students' comments and a protocol study, focusing on the communication modes provided by the CVEs used. The paper concludes with insights into the applications of virtual environments in collaborative design teaching. COPYRIGHT: © 2012 The authors.
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Educating New Generation of Architects
(Ecaade-Education & Research Computer Aided Architectural Design Europe, 2012) Gül, Leman Figen
Recently the developments in and the extensive use of digital design technologies have brought about fundamental changes in the way architects design and represent. As a result of the changing architectural design practise, there have been significant changes in architectural curricula to accommodate new demands, opportunities, processes and potentials provided by advance digital design tools and fabrication-based design techniques. Based on this new demand in design education, a number of additional subjects have been introduced in architectural curricula facilitating the experimentation of free-form /complex design artefact, building components and material attributes. Reported in this paper is the experience of the students as well as a commentary on the quality of the outcomes they achieved whilst confronting this new learning experience. Based on the analysis of collected questionnaire answers, this paper will document the issues that the students experienced during digital design development, the modelling and assembling level as well as in the process of fabrication.
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Opening the "black-Box" of Interior Design Education: the Assessment of Basic Design Project Work
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2012) Sipahioğlu, Işıl Ruhi
Interior design education differs from education in other disciplines due to its use of design studio as the setting for project based reflective learning environment. This setting is criticized for being a pedagogy derived from a preexisting 'apprenticeship' model that reproduces prevalent and dominant notions of "architectural habitus." This paper carries out a case study on the first year basic design course of 26 interior architecture students in Turkey over one semester to discuss how "thinking like an architect" has been transmitted by critics to the new members of the profession. (C) 2012 Published by Elsevier Ltd. Selection and/or peer review under responsibility of Prof. Ayse Cakir Ilhan
Citation - Scopus: 13
Constructivist Learning Theory in Virtual Design Studios
(IGI Global, 2012) Gül, L. F.; Williams A.; Gu, Ning
In the authors' design teaching, they have been employing virtual world technologies, allowing students the capacity to collaborate and design within a constructivist immersive design platform such as Second Life (www.secondlife.com) and Active Worlds (www.activeworlds.com). These environments support synchronous design communication and real-time 3D modelling. Particularly, 3D immersive design environments have the potential to make a major contribution to design education as constructivist learning environments. Based on authors' teaching experience and the students' learning experience, this chapter discusses 3D virtual world as constructivist learning environments that support team-based design and communication skill-building and presents the challenges faced by design education today. The chapter firstly provides a critical analysis of various design learning and teaching features offered in 3D virtual worlds as constructivist learning environments, secondly, identifies a number of key issues in addressing engagement and interaction in virtual design learning, thirdly, addresses the core skills and cognitive processes of designing in 3D virtual worlds, and finally, provides several strategies for the facilitation of virtual worlds as the constructivist design teaching platform. © 2012, IGI Global.
The Multi-Level Perspective on Sustainable Building Design: an Account on Building Environmental Assessment Tools
(Czech Technical Univ Prague, 2013) Sipahioğlu, Işıl Ruhi
Based on the middle-range theory in the field of socio-technical transitions, the Multi-Level Perspective (MLP), the paper considers the practice of 'sustainable' building guided by building environment assessment tools (LEED, BREEAM or la Procedure HQE) as a niche activity under the mainstream construction regime. The MLP views transitions as a result of the interplay between three analytical levels: Niches (for radical innovations), socio-technical regimes and socio-technical landscapes. This perspective reveals how structuring effects reflect upon practices and thus how practices (re)produce structures. Where regimes tend to produce 'normal' innovation process pattern, niches refer to activities mostly protected from the structuring effects of regimes. In this framework, higher levels are more stable than lower ones and transitions are the shifts from one regime to another. In Turkey, although the number of certified buildings in one of these assessment tools remains small, these tools have gained significant appeal in marketing the projects. Regardless of the inadequacies of these tools in encouraging professionals towards environmentally sensitive buildings, their assessment methodology and criteria are seen to be highly influential on orienting the local discourse on sustainability. Considering the call for attaining a regenerative paradigm for a sustainable built environment, such an orientation might favor only one type of structure, by relinquishing others and, maybe more fruitful alternatives. Following the MLP, this paper discusses how such a niche activity interacts with the overarching construction regime in Turkey. It examines if such a niche-regime translation occurs and dwells upon possible counterproductive consequences for the future.
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A Framework of Collaborative Virtual Environments for Design Research
(Nova Science Publishers, Inc., 2013) Gül, F. L.; Wang X.; Kim M. J.
Recent advances in Collaborative Virtual Environments (CVEs) have attracted noted research efforts in using it for assisting design and facilitating design collaboration. This paper proposes a CVEs framework for design research that focuses on practicability of each variable for providing design assistances in specific projects. Although previous work in CVE in design has properly addressed the variables in an isolated manner, comprehensive issues in terms of CVE effectiveness in design assistance need to be further developed. The comprehensive CVE framework consists of three dimensions and thirteen categories, which further address the variables for theory and implementation. The paper further critically reviews each of the variables in its implication of design assistance based on the findings from representative literature. Thisframework provides a basis for evaluating potential and important research areas and identifying driving factors for future CVE research in design assistance. © 2013 by Nova Science Publishers, Inc. All rights reserved.
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Istanbul's Taksim Square and Gezi Park: the Place of Protest and the Ideology of Place
(Vilnius Gediminas Technical University, 2014) Gül, M.; Dee J.; Nur, Cünük C.
May 2013 saw Istanbul witness a massive public demonstration. The incident began on 28 May when a small group of environmental activists tried to save Gezi Park, one of the most iconic green spaces in the Taksim district of central Istanbul. The park dates back to the 1940s and is well-known as public promenade. The modest demonstration was triggered by a government decision to reconstruct a former Ottoman Artillery Barracks. Within a few days, it developed into a violent uprising on an unprecedented scale lasting almost an entire month. Crowds not only gathered in Istanbul but also in many other Turkish cities such as the capital, Ankara. International media broadcast the protests live from Taksim Square turning the Gezi Park protest into an international phenomenon. Today the Park has become a reference point in Turkish politics where almost every issue is linked to the 'spirit of Gezi'. It made a modest protest over an inner city promenade into a vivid symbol of political opposition. This paper will analyse historically the Taksim Square project and the ideological conflicts it evoked in Turkish society. © 2014 Vilnius Gediminas Technical University (VGTU) Press Technika.
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The Impact of Digital Design Representations on Synchronous Collaborative Behaviour
(Department of Computer Science, 2014) Gül, L. F.
Recent technological developments in Human Computer Interaction (HCI) are offering new collaborative design environments to designers. Design thinking and design representations have changed with the introduction of digital tools such as digital sketching, 3D modeling applications, rendering, multi-user 3D virtual worlds and collaborative virtual environments. The aim of the study is to identify similarities and differences between remote digital sketching and 3D modeling in virtual environments, in order to have a better understanding of the impact of design representation on design collaboration. We report the results of an experiment using protocol analysis. Our analysis shows that the designers demonstrate different collaborative cognitive actions in the remote sketching and the 3D modeling environment. The results of the study with regard to the research objectives are discussed. © 2014 The authors.
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Methods for Assessing 3d Virtual Worlds in Design Education [pp. 152-169]
(Igi Global, 2014) Gül, Leman Figen; Gu, Ning; Kim, Mi Jeong; Wang, Xiangyu
With the advancement and increasing adoption of information and communication virtual worlds, being a part of these revolutionary forces, have the potential to make a major contribution to design education as a new teaching and learning environment. Considering this changing trend, we have been employing 3D virtual worlds in the design curriculum over the past decade. To critically understand the impact of the technologies on design education, this chapter explores and demonstrates three different assessment methods of 3D virtual worlds in design education, through three case studies. The chapter also concludes with insights into the applications of virtual environments in collaborative design teaching.
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Re-Thinking the Concept of "ornament" in Architectural Design
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2014) Sağlam, Hakan
The concept of ornament has emerged as a result of the existence of the human being and its relation to its environment. Ornament of objects, which aim at adding qualitative features to objects alongside their quantitative states, is a practice that is as old as humanity. Within this process of the individual's efforts in thinking, designing, creating, and communicating, one comes across ornament in every field of design, from little objects to urban planning. Discussions especially on architectural ornament has been popular in every age. Since the time of Vitruvius who set the stage for conceptual discussion of architecture, ornament, due to its social and psychological functions, has almost uninterruptedly been a major topic for discussion. This can be seen as the language's (that is used to perceive and narrate architecture as a spatial art) benefitting from formal-physical elements (which are mostly rather found on a more superficial and easily understood level) of artistic communication. Ornament, whose function-meaning and/or form go through changes according to ages, within the context of architecture, where it belongs to the highest level of artistic communication language, has been at the core of these discussions. The aim of this paper is to re-evaluate architecture-ornament relation within history and to re-discuss it in a rather popular way by drawing attention to the most controversial climaxes in new architectural perspective. (C) 2013 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.
Sinema ve Mimarlık Etkileşimi: Tim Burton Filmlerinde Modernizm Eleştirileri
(Mimarlar Odası, 2014-01) Güleç, Gülşah; Çağlar, Nur
The fruitful interaction between the fields of cinema and architecture has started to be referred often. The authors provide a reading on the criticism of modernism raised by these two disciplines, which have close associations in the production and presentation of space, through analysing Tim Burton movies. The criticism rose towards 21st century modernism in the movies of Burton, who is after novel contextual and semantic structure, make it inevitable for the architectural discipline witnessing a period named as “super modern” as a derivation of the term “modern”, to start thinking about the past, present and future of the modern world.
A SEARCH FOR DIGITAL DESIGN PEDAGOGY: DIGITAL FABRICATION AS A CHALLENGE
(Iated-Int Assoc Technology Education A& Development, 2015) Öztoprak, Zelal
This paper aims to expose current developments in digital architectural design, digital fabrication techniques and their relations to design pedagogy. The conjoining of machine and material computation potentially has significant and unprecedented consequences for design and built environment. With the influence of the emerging technologies, architectural design has become engaged with the exploration of complex geometries, free forms as well as related materialization processes of fabrication technologies. Today, with the emerging interest in fabrication techniques and through file to factory processes, architects are able to design, fabricate and assemble digitally created form, structure and surface. As a result of these developments, architects became closer to the production process and to have a better control over building parts and materials. Accordingly, there is an emerging need for a new digital design pedagogy, responsive to contemporary conditions in which digital fabrication techniques are integrated as a unique body of knowledge consisting of the relationship between digital architectural knowledge and digital fabrication skill. The discussion of this very paper will be based on the design curriculum of the Architectural Association Summer DLAB 2014, in which the author was one of the participants. With the experimental design approach of Summer DLAB, a search for a new pedagogical approach emphasizing the integration of conceptual content, experimental methodologies, digital architectural knowledge and digital fabrication skill will be demonstrated.
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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
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The Effect of The Education Models on Primary School Structures From The Early Years of The Republic To Present
(Iated-Int Assoc Technology Education A& Development, 2015) Koç, Çiğdem; Sağlam, Hakan
Education systems have changed many times in Turkey during the last 91 years. School building typology underwent significant changes, particularly, in the early periods of the Turkish Republic. Village institutions, school of arts, vocational high schools, and especially primary schools constitute the leading structures of these periods. These structures have unique characteristics and are suitable for this period's social structure, and also suitable for economic and cultural conditions. However, school structures have been significantly affected by the changes of political, economic and social conditions during the past years. These changes also affect the architecture of primary school structures and create spatial differences. This paper aims to discuss these school structure changes in the past years. Following the analysis of the general conditions of primary schools, it appears that current problems are the result of changes within education systems over the years. The school system in the Ottoman Empire eventually became insufficient and several reforms were applied to primary schools to make them better once the era of Turkish Republic began. However, there are still many problems with the architecture of primary schools. This paper considers the primary school structures from the reformist days of the Ottoman Empire to the modern Turkish Republic. The paper also discusses the changes and transformations of architectural structures of primary schools within the context of educational systems from the Ottoman Empire to present. The methodology of this paper includes the analysis of architectural approaches on school structures over the years, while considering political, economic and social conditions. A detailed comparison of these factors is also included.
L’arquitectura de dema:un enfocament radical
(RACO, 2015-10) Çağlar, Nur
L’arquitectura sempre ha repensat i analitzat amb caràcter continu de temps i especificitatde lloc. En aquest sentit, avui dia, les especulacions de l’arquitectura vinent estan fortamentrelacionades amb els esdeveniments, les eleccions i els desitjos actuals de l’ésser l’humà. L’elaboraciód’arquitectura no assumeix prediccions, previsions i estimacions sobre com serà el futur, com undeure o una preocupació. No obstant això, el pensament arquitectònic pot beneficiar l’exercici deles especulacions i les futures perspectives que no sols especifiquen els problemes, sinó tambélluiten per trobar possibles solucions. Per tant, en lloc de discutir la projecció de la interrelació del’arquitectura actual i l’arquitectura de demà, jo advoque per la necessitat de discutir sobre qüestionscom ara què ha de ser l’arquitectura i com haurien de ser els arquitectes. La preocupació hauria deser el futur de l’arquitectura, no l’arquitectura del futur.
Visual Structuring for Generative Design Search Spaces
(Budapest University of Technology and Economics Faculty of Architecture, 2016) Abbas, Günsu Merin; Dino, İpek Gürsel
With generative design strategies, the act of design, the problem-solving process, and the interaction, understanding and representation of design artefacts have changed. As such strategies entail a large number of possible design solutions, they also expand the design search space immensely. In addition, due to the automated design generation process, the interaction of the designer through the design process has decreased. This research problematizes two major points as (1) the broad design spaces of generative design systems that are populated by many design instances and (2) the elimination of designerly decisions and evaluation from the design artefact due to automated generation processes. As a solution to these problems, a visual structuring strategy is proposed. This strategy aims to act as a mediator between the designer and the design artefact during the generative process and manage the complexity resulting from the multiplicity of solutions. For visual structuring, three methods are proposed and classified as (1) perception-based visual structuring, (2) retrieval-based structuring, and (3) optimality-based structuring within the scope of this research.
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Meanings and Social Roles of the Republic Period Urban Parks in Ankara
(Elsevier Science Bv, 2016) Ekinci, Zuhal; Sağlam, Hakan
Meanings of urban parks as open public spaces will be explored in urban readings. Social roles of parks will be discussed by using published resources and observations. The daily life in Ankara changed with the urban gardens. However, over time, they lost their characteristics because of new development. Interventions on urban structure reflect the current ideology and its physical presence. Although urban parks change physically, they still continue the task of representing ideology. In this perspective, the aim of this paper is to examine and identify the meanings of urban parks with respect to sustainability and conservation of cultural heritage. (C) 2016 The Authors. Published by Elsevier Ltd.

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