COURSE UNIT TITLE

: DESIGN OF ARCHITECTURAL ENVIRONMENT

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ERA 3023 DESIGN OF ARCHITECTURAL ENVIRONMENT ELECTIVE 2 0 0 3

Offered By

Architecture

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR INCI UZUN

Offered to

Architecture
City and Regional Planning

Course Objective

To gain an analytic conception on architecture and natural & urban environment integrity, to identify architectural environment design principles and elements and to develop an architectural design concept that integrated with environmental design while taking natural and urban environment context into consideration.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   1. To define the environment in various scales and aspects
2   2. To explain the architectural environment design elements and principles
3   3. To relate architectural design with natural and urban environment context
4   4. To evaluate architectural and environmental design as a whole

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 1. Introduction to course
2 2. Natural environment-architecture relationships and environmental analysis
3 3. Urban environment-architecture relationships and environmental analysis
4 4. Open and semi-closed spaces in architecture
5 5. Public space and urban open spaces
6 6. Environmental design elements: Relating with ground
7 7. Mid-term Exam
8 8. Environmental design elements: Horizontal and vertical surfaces
9 9. Environmental design elements: Planting
10 10. Environmental design elements: Water
11 11. Environmental design elements: Urban furnitures
12 12. Students' assignment presentations
13 13. Students' assignment presentations (continues)
14 14. Students' assignment presentations (continues), summary of the course

Recomended or Required Reading

*Lynch, K. (2011). Kent Imgesi. Iş Bankası Yayınları, Istanbul.
*Lynch, K. (1990). City sense and city design. MIT Pres, Cambridge, Mass.
*Broadbent, G. (1990). Emerging concepts in urban space design/ G. Broadbent. Van Nostrand Reinhold, London.
*Carr, S., ve diğ. (1992). Public space/ S. Carr ve başkaları. Cambridge University, Cambridge.
*Aymonino, A., Mosco, V.P. (2006). Contemporary public space : un-volumetric architecture. Rizzoli International, Milano, Italy; Skira; New York, NY.
*Crysler, C. G. (2003). Writing spaces : discourses of architecture, urbanism and the built environment. Routledge, New York.
*Carlson, A. (2002). Aesthetics and the environment : the appreciation of nature, art, and architecture. Routledge, London.
*Hawkes, D. (1996). The Environmental tradition: Studies in the architecture of environment. E and FN Spon, London.
*Simonds, J. O. (1961). Landscape architecture : The shapping of man's natural environment. Mc Graw-Hill, New York

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The lecturer will give information supported by visuals on the subject and the homeworks prepared by the students on related subjects will be presented and discussed.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 FINS FINAL EXAM
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.30 + FINS * 0.40
5 RST RESIT
6 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTE * 0.30 + ASG * 0.30 + RST * 0.40


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Midterm, final and make-up exams can be taken as homework submission in compulsory cases determined by the institution.

Assessment Criteria

Midterm Exam % 30 (LO1, LO2, LO3)
Assignment % 30 (LO 4)
Final Exam % 40 (LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4)

Language of Instruction

English

Course Policies and Rules

Assignments should be submitted on announced time and method. Late / irregular submissions will be subject to a %30 reduced evaluation.

Scientific and professional ethics is essential. Cheatery will be processed through discipline regularities.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

inci.uzun@deu.edu.tr
+90 232 3018489

Office Hours

Office Hours: To be announced

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 10 2 20
Preparation for midterm exam 1 6 6
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing assignments 1 15 15
Preparing presentations 1 5 5
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 10 1 10
Midterm 1 2 2
Final 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 70

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16PO.17
LO.11
LO.2
LO.3
LO.4