Course Introduction and Application Information

Course Code:

ICM031

Course Name:

Ecological Approaches in Architectural Design

Semester:

Fall

Course Credits:

ECTS

Language of instruction:

Turkish

Course Condition:

Does the Course Require Work Experience?:

Type of course:

Departmental Elective

Course Level:

Bachelor

TR-NQF-HE:6. Master`s Degree

QF-EHEA:First Cycle

EQF-LLL:6. Master`s Degree

Mode of Delivery:

E-Learning

Course Coordinator:

Doç. Dr. BİLGE YARAREL DOĞAN

Course Lecturer(s):

Lecturer Ozan Gürsoy

Course Assistants:

Course Objective and Content

Course Objectives:

The aim of this course is to understand and critically examine ecological, biodiversity-based, and sustainability-focused design approaches, as well as to explore their position, significance, and implementation methods in the design process. The course also evaluates environmental conditions, energy consumption and use, and material selection from an ecological design perspective, particularly in relation to interior spaces.

Course Content:

This course examines ecological approaches in architectural design, the design process, and the problems formulated in this context, focusing on concepts such as ecosystems, energy flows, sustainability, biodiversity, vitality, and formation. Through discussions and readings that emphasize the relational dimension of design, along with precedent studies, the course aims to bring critical perspectives from various axes to these debates, by addressing the relationships between the physical environment and design, materiality, time, and experience in the design process structure, with a focus on global-local problems. Students are expected to generate their own ideas on this subject through alternative productions in different scales and forms of representation.

In this context, the course includes the evaluation of ecological design factors from cultural, political, and spatial perspectives. This course emphasizes the role and importance of the design object in human relationships with the environment

Learning Outcomes

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.

Course Flow Plan

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

Sources

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:

Course - Program Learning Outcome Relationship

Course Learning Outcomes	1	2
Program Outcomes

Course - Learning Outcome Relationship

No Effect	1 Lowest	2 Average	3 Highest

Program Outcomes

Level of Contribution

Assessment & Grading

Semester Requirements	Number of Activities	Level of Contribution
Midterms	1	% 40
Final	1	% 60
total		% 100
PERCENTAGE OF SEMESTER WORK		% 40
PERCENTAGE OF FINAL WORK		% 60
total		% 100

Workload and ECTS Credit Calculation

Activities	Number of Activities	Workload
Course Hours	14	42
Midterms	1	3
Final	1	3
Total Workload		48