| Interior Architecture and Environmental Design | |||||
| Bachelor | TR-NQF-HE: Level 6 | QF-EHEA: First Cycle | EQF-LLL: Level 6 | ||
| Course Code: | ICM031 | ||||
| Course Name: | Ecological Approaches in Architectural Design | ||||
| Semester: | Spring | ||||
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| Language of instruction: | Turkish | ||||
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| Does the Course Require Work Experience?: | No | ||||
| Type of course: | Departmental Elective | ||||
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| Mode of Delivery: | E-Learning | ||||
| Course Coordinator: | Doç. Dr. BİLGE YARAREL DOĞAN | ||||
| Course Lecturer(s): | Gökçe Saadet Arpacı Coşkun | ||||
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| Course Objectives: | The course Ecological Approaches in Architectural Design aims to teach architecture and interior architecture students the concept of sustainability, addressing it alongside its environmental and ecological impacts. This course seeks to equip future designers with the ability to create environmentally conscious, energy-efficient, resource-conserving, and socially beneficial spaces. Through both theoretical and practical learning, students will develop the competence to produce projects that embody ecological responsibility. |
| Course Content: | Throughout the course, students will learn how to integrate sustainability into architectural and interior design projects. Topics such as green building certification systems, energy efficiency, water management, carbon footprint reduction, and life cycle analyses will be covered. In the 8th week, students will conduct on-site research on a project with a green building certification and present their findings through poster presentations. During the final week, their knowledge will be reinforced through a written exam. In this context, the course includes an evaluation of ecological design factors from cultural, political, and spatial perspectives. It emphasizes the role and significance of the design object in its interaction with the environment and its place within human relationships. |
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The students who have succeeded in this course;
1) Being conscious and sensitive about ecological design in design thinking. 2) To have awareness and knowledge about ecology, sustainability, energy-efficient design, passive design, and related topics. Developing paradigms on both the ideological backgrounds and futures of these concepts. |
| Week | Subject | Related Preparation |
| 1) | Explanation of course structure and general discussion and debate on the definition of ecological design concepts and design thinking within this context. | |
| 2) | The discussions of ecology, sustainability, and energy concepts, and debates based on sample projects. | |
| 3) | The exploration of biodiversity, greenhouse effect, and energy-efficient designs, along with analysis of design ideas through sample projects | |
| 4) | Documentary screening and question generation workshop, life cycle design | |
| 5) | Climate design, building envelope design, building physics, and sustainability relationship | |
| 6) | Discussions on relational design, energy and liveliness | |
| 6) | Ecologically Based Design Approaches in Furniture Production and Examples of Recyclable Material Use | |
| 7) | The relationship between material and ecology, life cycles, closed systems, cradle-to-cradle design, and the ideology of recycling | |
| 8) | Midterm | |
| 9) | Ecologies of materiality; human-posthuman and new materialism | |
| 10) | Design idea generation and critiques, and post-human ecology | |
| 11) | Critiques on design ideas and productions. Development of idea projects through readings, documentaries and discussions | |
| 12) | Design idea development through readings, documentaries, and discussions on criticisms of design ideas and productions | |
| 13) | Critiques on design ideas and productions. Developing idea projects through readings, documentaries, and discussions | |
| 14) | Critiques on design ideas and productions. Developing idea projects through readings, documentaries and discussions |
| Course Notes / Textbooks: | Akman, A., (1999), “Ekolojik ve Biyolojik Yapı Uygulamaları” ,Yapı Dergisi, 213: 92-99 Atıcı M., 2002, Ekolojik Mimari ve Felsefi Açılımları, Etik-Estetik, editörler, Şentürer A. Ve diğerleri, s. 36-39, Yapı Yayın, İstanbul Yeang, K. (2012), ‘Ekotasarım -Ekolojik Tasarım Rehberi’, YemYayınları, İstanbul Alexander C., 1965, A City İs Not A Tree, Architectural Forum, vol.122, no.1, p58., Theories and Manifestoes Ciravoğlu A., 2008, Sürdürülebilir Mimarlık: Eskimiş Kavrayışlarla Yeni Söylemler Arasında, Mimarlık Dergisi, sayı 340, İstanbul Ciravoğlu A., 2006, Sürdürülebilirlik Düşüncesi-Mimarlık Etkileşimine Alternatif Bir Bakış:“Yer”in Çevre Bilincine Etkisi, YTÜ Doktora Tezi, İstanbul Çalgüner T., 2003, Çevre mi? Ekoloji mi?, Nobel Yayınevi, Ankara Callenbach E., 1998, Ecology, University of California Pres, London Dodsworth, S., Anderson S. (2015), ‘İç Mekan Tasarımının Temelleri’, Literatür Yayıncılık, İstanbul. Tucker, L.M. (2014), ‘Designing Sustainable Residential and Commercial Interiors’, Fairchild Books, İngiltere. Merchant C., (1980), The Death of Nature, Environmental Philosophy, 2001, edit: Zimmerman, M. and others, Prentice Hall, New Jersey Merchant C., 2005, Radical Ecology The Search for Livable World, Routledge, Newyork hu-Yang F., Freedman B. and Cote R., 2004, Principles And Practice Of Ecological Design, Environ. Rev., volume 12, pp. 97–112 Tato B., Vallejo J. L., G-Setien D., 2008, Soft Urbanizm, Tasarım Dergisi, sayı 181, sf. 142-147 |
| References: | Akman, A., (1999), “Ekolojik ve Biyolojik Yapı Uygulamaları” ,Yapı Dergisi, 213: 92-99 Atıcı M., 2002, Ekolojik Mimari ve Felsefi Açılımları, Etik-Estetik, editörler, Şentürer A. Ve diğerleri, s. 36-39, Yapı Yayın, İstanbul Yeang, K. (2012), ‘Ekotasarım -Ekolojik Tasarım Rehberi’, YemYayınları, İstanbul Alexander C., 1965, A City İs Not A Tree, Architectural Forum, vol.122, no.1, p58., Theories and Manifestoes Ciravoğlu A., 2008, Sürdürülebilir Mimarlık: Eskimiş Kavrayışlarla Yeni Söylemler Arasında, Mimarlık Dergisi, sayı 340, İstanbul Ciravoğlu A., 2006, Sürdürülebilirlik Düşüncesi-Mimarlık Etkileşimine Alternatif Bir Bakış:“Yer”in Çevre Bilincine Etkisi, YTÜ Doktora Tezi, İstanbul Çalgüner T., 2003, Çevre mi? Ekoloji mi?, Nobel Yayınevi, Ankara Callenbach E., 1998, Ecology, University of California Pres, London Dodsworth, S., Anderson S. (2015), ‘İç Mekan Tasarımının Temelleri’, Literatür Yayıncılık, İstanbul. Tucker, L.M. (2014), ‘Designing Sustainable Residential and Commercial Interiors’, Fairchild Books, İngiltere. Merchant C., (1980), The Death of Nature, Environmental Philosophy, 2001, edit: Zimmerman, M. and others, Prentice Hall, New Jersey Merchant C., 2005, Radical Ecology The Search for Livable World, Routledge, Newyork hu-Yang F., Freedman B. and Cote R., 2004, Principles And Practice Of Ecological Design, Environ. Rev., volume 12, pp. 97–112 Tato B., Vallejo J. L., G-Setien D., 2008, Soft Urbanizm, Tasarım Dergisi, sayı 181, sf. 142-147 |
| Course Learning Outcomes | 1 |
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| Program Outcomes | ||||||||||||||
| 1) Continuously following up-to-date publications and developments related to the profession of Interior Architecture and shaping the design process in line with the theoretical and practical knowledge in the field of architecture and art. | ||||||||||||||
| 2) Acquiring universal knowledge in the fields within the discipline of interior architecture. | ||||||||||||||
| 3) To have the right professional communication skills in professional life by using all the inputs and conditions related to Interior Architecture profession and to have mastered the methods of interior architecture representation and professional terminology. | ||||||||||||||
| 4) Focusing on the various functions within the whole interior design design and handling the pieces of space as a whole. | ||||||||||||||
| 5) Evaluating the concept of space design through different disciplines. | ||||||||||||||
| 6) To be able to make contemporary designs suitable for the person by relating the relationship between human-space-scale concepts with the needs of the people. | ||||||||||||||
| 7) Ability to use all presentation and expression techniques with the necessary knowledge of fine arts in order to express the design process correctly. | ||||||||||||||
| 8) To be able to manage the process that goes from design to application by showing the details related to the application after the interior architecture has matured in the design stage. | ||||||||||||||
| 9) Project and construction site management and applications, employee health, environmental and occupational safety awareness, professional standards and business law. | ||||||||||||||
| 10) To be able to choose the right materials and application methods with sufficient and up-to-date information about building materials and their applications. | ||||||||||||||
| 11) To be able to understand problems related to construction, design, application and engineering. | ||||||||||||||
| 12) To be able to make original interior design by combining aesthetic, technical and functional conditions, and to continuously develop the professional knowledge and skills. | ||||||||||||||
| 13) According to a foreign language education level, in terms of European Language Portfolio criteria; at least B1; use at general level. | ||||||||||||||
| 14) Use computer software and information and communication technologies at the advanced level of European Computer Driving License required by the field. | ||||||||||||||
| No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Average | 3 Highest |
| Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution | |
| 1) | Continuously following up-to-date publications and developments related to the profession of Interior Architecture and shaping the design process in line with the theoretical and practical knowledge in the field of architecture and art. | 3 |
| 2) | Acquiring universal knowledge in the fields within the discipline of interior architecture. | 2 |
| 3) | To have the right professional communication skills in professional life by using all the inputs and conditions related to Interior Architecture profession and to have mastered the methods of interior architecture representation and professional terminology. | 1 |
| 4) | Focusing on the various functions within the whole interior design design and handling the pieces of space as a whole. | 1 |
| 5) | Evaluating the concept of space design through different disciplines. | 2 |
| 6) | To be able to make contemporary designs suitable for the person by relating the relationship between human-space-scale concepts with the needs of the people. | 1 |
| 7) | Ability to use all presentation and expression techniques with the necessary knowledge of fine arts in order to express the design process correctly. | |
| 8) | To be able to manage the process that goes from design to application by showing the details related to the application after the interior architecture has matured in the design stage. | 1 |
| 9) | Project and construction site management and applications, employee health, environmental and occupational safety awareness, professional standards and business law. | |
| 10) | To be able to choose the right materials and application methods with sufficient and up-to-date information about building materials and their applications. | 1 |
| 11) | To be able to understand problems related to construction, design, application and engineering. | 2 |
| 12) | To be able to make original interior design by combining aesthetic, technical and functional conditions, and to continuously develop the professional knowledge and skills. | 2 |
| 13) | According to a foreign language education level, in terms of European Language Portfolio criteria; at least B1; use at general level. | |
| 14) | Use computer software and information and communication technologies at the advanced level of European Computer Driving License required by the field. | 1 |
| Semester Requirements | Number of Activities | Level of Contribution |
| Homework Assignments | 1 | % 40 |
| Final | 1 | % 60 |
| total | % 100 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK | % 40 | |
| PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK | % 60 | |
| total | % 100 | |
| Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
| Course Hours | 14 | 28 |
| Field Work | 3 | 6 |
| Study Hours Out of Class | 14 | 28 |
| Presentations / Seminar | 2 | 8 |
| Homework Assignments | 8 | 16 |
| Quizzes | 2 | 4 |
| Midterms | 1 | 2 |
| Final | 1 | 2 |
| Total Workload | 94 | |