Course Code: | ICM031 | ||||
Course Name: | Ecological Approaches in Architectural Design | ||||
Semester: |
Fall |
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Course Credits: |
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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): | Lecturer Ozan Gürsoy | ||||
Course Assistants: |
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 |
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 |
2 |
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Program Outcomes |
No Effect | 1 Lowest | 2 Average | 3 Highest |
Program Outcomes | Level of Contribution |
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 |
Activities | Number of Activities | Workload |
Course Hours | 14 | 42 |
Midterms | 1 | 3 |
Final | 1 | 3 |
Total Workload | 48 |