Syllabus

CRP 102 INTRODUCTION TO PLANNING STUDIOS

Meets: Monday 13.00-17.00 and Thursday 13.00-17.00

Instructors:

Assoc.Prof.Dr. Z. Ezgi KAHRAMAN,

Assist.Prof.Dr. Deniz ALTAY KAYA,

Instr. Semih KELLECÄ°

 

AIM

This studio aims to give students the design tools in creating urban patterns including living unit, cluster, neighborhood, city macroform. The studio will continue to apply the Gestalt Laws of Form, urban perceptual attributes, public hierarchy in space, and landscape order of space. Students will gain design skills starting from a living unit scale to urban scale. The studio also seeks to give students an understanding of how to analyze, synthesize, and design urban space.

Upon completion of the studio, students should be able to define, identify and describe guiding design principles for living unit, cluster, neighborhood and urban macroform designs; to construct visual, social, and landscape values in space, and apply these in spatial design by using the conceptual drawing and modeling techniques.

 

COURSE STRUCTURE

This studio stands on the premise of improving students’ skills in the processes of working collaboratively towards innovating outcomes, working both as a participant and as a facilitator. Each student has his/her experiences and standpoint to offer which will differ from what others have to offer.

This course does not stand on the premise of conventional ideology of university life. Being a young undergraduate and expressing your reactions from that position is as valuable for clarifying the issues in the studio as being a highly experienced expert. The contributions of students can often be different from the ones of experts, and yet, they are both highly valued.

The class will normally move between mini-lectures, small group and individual work, and collaborative plenary sessions. Small group work will rely on students’ forming a self-managing group, expressing their own expertise and interests in the process of modifying the itinerary of the course and experiencing participatory group processes.

 

DRAWING MATERIALS AND TOOLS

Logbook A4 size sketch book. Will be collected with all submission.

What has been given? What I have learned? It will include your reflections, sketches, drawings, notes.

All types of drawing and model making materials.

 

REQUIREMENTS AND PERFORMANCE EVALUATION

Students will be evaluated in accordance with;

  • The studio projects, designs, and sketch problems
  • Oral presentations and reports
  • Active participation in class discussions (active class participation including participation in the course discussions; collaboration in the process of class management; collective generation of the group work assignment in each class)

Grading policy of the course is as follows;

  • Semester submissions, sketches, presentations, etc: %55
  • Final project: %40
  • Participation and studio critics: %5

Students are required to upload their projects into the moodle page of the course. Students can see their grades after they upload their submissions to this page.

https://webonline.cankaya.edu.tr/course/view.php?id=1312

STUDIO PROGRAM

Week 1

INTRODUCTION.

Evaluation of 1st semester

Introduction of studio program

Assignment 1: Wording of Basic Design

Weeks

2-3

LIVING UNIT DESIGN

Design a living unit which can accommodate three to four various types of families living together like a commune (approximately total: 300 m², inhabiting 8-10 people) by applying the Gestalt Laws and socio-spatial hierarchical order (private, semi-private, semi-public, public) (1/50).

  • Readings: Chapters from 75 to 79 of A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander.

Weeks

4-5

CLUSTERING LIVING UNITS

Create a cluster of 8-12 living units in the given site. Design the relation between the living units and open spaces created by living units. While arranging the space organization, mind the topographical features of the site as well. (Scale: 1/100)

  • Readings: Chapters from 37 to 39 of A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander.

Weeks

6-7

CLUSTERS COMING TOGETHER

Design model of a group of 2-3 neighbourly spatial clusters, each consisting of approximately 8 to 12 previously produced living units and its modified versions as required, its public/open space, parking space, vehicle and pedestrian circulation, and landscaping at 1/200 scale.

Weeks

8-9-10

NEIGHBORHOOD DESIGN

Design a small neighbourhood for 2000 to 2500 people by using the created cluster units in the previous task in a selected area (1/500). Include the perceptual elements of an urban environment (path, node, district, edge, landmark; spine, heart, growth patterns), the socio-spatial hierarchy of space (private, semi-private, semi-public, public), and the landscape design.

  • Readings: Chapters from 12 to 13 and 30 to 41 of A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander.

Weeks

11-12-13

DESIGN OF AN URBAN SYSTEM

Design the antique city macroform (1/5000) and the selected neighbourhoods (1/1000) by using the visual, geomorphologic, social, and landscape orders.

  • Read Chapters from 42 to 74 of A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction by Christopher Alexander and write a 5-6-page summary of what you have learned.

Final jury date will be announced.

 

REFERENCES

Alexander, C. (1971). A Pattern Language: Towns, Buildings, Construction, London: The Architectural Press.

Collen, G. (1961). Townscape, London: The Architectural Press.

Lang, J. (1987). Creating Architectural Theory: The Role of the Behavioral Sciences in Environmental Design. New York: Van Nostrand Reinhold.

Lozano, E.E. (1990). Community Design and the Culture of Cities, Cambridge University Press.

Lynch, K. (1992). Good City Form. London, England: The M.I.T. Press.

Lynch, K. (1989). Site Planning. The U.S.: Maple-Vail.

Hall, P. (1988). Cities of Tomorrow, UK: TJ International.

Marcus, C.C. & Francis, C. (1998). People Places. New York, NY: John Wiley & Sons.