COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ARC 5156 SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE ELECTIVE 3 0 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ILKNUR TÜRKSEVEN DOĞRUSOY

Offered to

Architectural Design
Architectural Design

Course Objective

Sustainable architecture is dealt with three main dimensions of sustainability, which are physical sustainability, socio-cultural sustainability and economical sustainability. The aim of this course is to introduce the multifaceted properties of sustainable architecture with students in different views and to make them discover which political, economic, social and ecological factors threatens sustainability in current architecture in critical point of view. Additionally, students improve themselves to determine a research problem about sustainable architecture, to make presentations and write a research report about their research subjects in this course.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   to learn main dimensions of sustainable architecture
2   to learn threatening factors of sustainability
3   to determine a research problem about sustainable architecture
4   to make presentation about their research subject
5   to write a research report about their research topic

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Meeting with the students, aims and content of the course, giving the reading list
2 Introduction to sustainability and sustainable architecture. What is the main dimensions of sustainability
3 Environmental problems, preservation of physical resources and importance of energy efficiencyarchitectural design and sustainability
4 Socio cultural issues, social identity, cultural values, design for human and sustainable architecture
5 Economical dimension of sustainable architecture
6 The political, economical, social and ecological problems threatening sustainable architecture
7 Determination of the research problem
8 Presentation of the research problem (Student presentation)
9 Literature review and limitation of the research problem
10 Research
11 Research
12 Presentation of research results (Student presentation)
13 Main principles of writing a research report
14 Presentation of research report and discussions (Student presentation)

Recomended or Required Reading

Sassi, P. (2006). Strategies for sustainable architecture http://library.uniteddiversity.coop/Ecological_Building/Strategies_for_Sustainable_Architecture.pdf
Bennetts, H., Radford, A. , Williamson, T. (2004). Understanding Sustainable Architecture, Taylor and Francis: NewYork.
Steele, J. (1997). Sustainable Architecture: Principles, Paradigms, and Case Studies, McGraw-Hill.
Türkseven Doğrusoy I, Erhan Serin (2015). "A Holistic Approach of Energy Efficient Building Design, Case Study: A Housing Design Proposal in Seferihisar, Izmir, Turkey", Journal of Settlements and Spatial Planning, vol. 6, no. 1, 37-49.
Türkseven Dogrusoy I, Dalgakiran A (2011). "An Alternative Approach in Sustainable Planning: Slow Urbanism", Archnet-IJAR, International Journal of Architectural Research, Volume 5 / Issue 1 / 127-142.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

1. Courses / Application
Theoretical courses will be given regarding research subjects of the students,
2. Presentations
Students will make presentations and write research reports about their research topics.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 PRS PRESENTATION
2 PAR PARTICIPATION
3 FIN FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE PRS * 0.40 + PAR * 0.10 + FIN * 0.50
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) PRS * 0.40 + PAR * 0.10 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Presentations: 40 %
Participation to Discussions: %10
Research report: 50 %

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

Attendance to the course is compulsory.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ilknur Türkseven Doğrusoy, 0090 232 301 8453
ilknur.turkseven@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

to be announced

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Tutorials 9 3 27
Student presentations 3 3 9
Preperations before/after weekly lectures 12 2 24
Preparation for research report 1 70 70
Preparing Presentations 3 15 45
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 175

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

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