COURSE UNIT TITLE

: THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE AND ENERGY ON DESIGN

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
URD 5194 THE IMPACTS OF CLIMATE AND ENERGY ON DESIGN ELECTIVE 2 2 0 7

Offered By

Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences

Level of Course Unit

Second Cycle Programmes (Master's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSISTANT PROFESSOR GÜLŞAH KAÇMAZ AKKURT

Offered to

Urban Design
M.Sc. Urban Design

Course Objective

The aim of the course is to explains students to climate change and the problems that arise in cities at macro and micro scales due to climate change, and to analyze and apply climate models that can be used to create climate sensitive designs in relation to this issue. In addition, with this course, the effects of climate and climate change on human life, climate and environment, bioclimatic comfort, urban climate adaptation, landscape-design elements and climate relationship, green space-climate interaction to convey to the students and it is aimed to gain students climate sensitive design skills.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to interpret climate parameters, climate change and its effects
2   To develop awareness of global climate change based on scientific knowledge
3   To be able to analyze the relationships between climate change and environmental factors
4   To learn climate sensitive urban design approaches in urban environments
5   To be able to use climate models for design applications

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Climate terminology and climate elements relationship
2 Climate change-temperature-design relationship
3 Climate change-wind-humidity-design relationship
4 Rainwater management - Effective use of water in landscape design
5 The effect of climate on the urban waterscape
6 The effect of climate on green spaces and topography design
7 Urban climate adaptation
8 Midterm
9 Bioclimatic comfort applications Description of the assignment
10 Examination of world and Turkish examples of climate sensitive urban design
11 Land use, climate change and climate models used (1)
12 Land use, climate change and climate models used (2)
13 The development of a climate-sensitive design project on the selected area (Assignment review)
14 The development of a climate-sensitive design project on the selected area (Assignment review)
15 The development of a climate-sensitive design project on the selected area (Assignment review)
16 Assignment submissions and presentations

Recomended or Required Reading

1. Olgyay, V. (1963) Design With Climate: Bioclimatic Approach to Architectural Regionalism, New York, John Wiley & Sons Inc
2. Hoyer, J., Dickhaut, W., Kronawitter, L. and Weber, B. 2011. Water Sensitive Urban Design: Principles and Inspiration for Sustainable Stormwater Management in the City of the Future. Jovis, ISBN-10: 3868591060.
3. LETI Climate Emergency Design Guide, 2017. 252d09_3b0f2acf2bb24c019f5ed9173fc5d9f4.pdf (leti.uk)
4. Mertens, E. (2021). Resilient City: Landscape Architecture for Climate Change. Birkhäuser.
5. Randall, D.A., Wood, R.A., Bony, S., Colman, R., Fichefet, T., Fyfe, J., & Taylor, K.E. (2007). Climate models and their evaluation. The physical science basis. Contribution of Working Group I to the Fourth Assessment Report of the IPCC (FAR) (pp. 589-662). Cambridge University Press

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Conceptual explanations will be through presentation and learning will be supported by readings, question-answer, brainstorming, case study methods. Students are expected to develop climate sensitive design projects by analyzing the climate in accordance with the information provided in the course.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 ASG ASSIGNMENT
2 PAR PARTICIPATION
3 ASG ASSIGNMENT
4 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) ASG * 0.40 + PAR * 0.10 + ASG * 0.50


Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Learning outcomes will be evaluated by assignment and final project.

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

All class members are expected to attend and both the lecture and project design hours and take part in the discussion sessions.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

gulsah.kacmazakkurt@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 13 3 39
Student Presentations 2 3 6
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 13 4 52
Preparing assignments 2 20 40
Preparing presentations 2 19 38
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 175

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16
LO.111
LO.211
LO.3111
LO.41
LO.51

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