Course Descriptions

Within the scope of the Urban Planning and Design Course; the aim is to explain to the students of architecture the relationships between urban scale, urban planning and urban design processes and architectural scale and architectural design processes. The course-related application study aims to give the ability to analyze urban space elements in urban areas with different features and make urban texture analysis, define urban problems, set priorities, reach a synthesis, develop option/alternative thinking and design suggestions. The Urban Planning and Design Course will cover definitions about the city, urban planning and urban design, historical development of cities, plan types and scales, urban planning and design process, and will focus on defining different activity areas in cities, determining population, area, density relationships in settlements, urban space formation and examining the texture of the urban landscape as well as the pedestrian-vehicle transportation systems. The relationship between the studies of urban planning, urban design and architecture will be explained, and the role of the architect in these fields will be defined. In the application study, the sample areas selected from the existing urban environments will be analysed within the framework of potential analysis, potentials, constraints, problems and possibilities, and appropriate design options will be developed.

Area Elective

General Elective

In the studio, making versatile analysis of urban environment within the context of cultural heritage, sustainability, disasters, technological changes etc.; researching a multi-functional architectural program; and developing a critical, experimental and innovative design idea are the main objectives. The outline of the course are elaboration of the original architectural thought; space organization researches; critical evaluation of advanced structural systems and building technologies in the context of current architectural practices; and the development of techniques for visual, written and verbal communication and representation of design idea.

In the Environmental and Zoning Law Course; the aim is to introduce to architecture students the legal processes and legislation related to urban planning, design, environment and zoning. The contents of the Environmental and Zoning Law Course are the place of environmental and zoning law in the Turkish legal system, scope, essential features of environmental law, principles, the Turkish environmental legislation, international agreements on the environment to which Turkey is a party, environmental impact assessment, application of zoning law, building law regulations, planning hierarchy, master plan types, special purpose plans, conservation planning, conservation of natural and cultural areas, urban transformation and renewal areas applications, legal framework, tourism planning, land and land arrangement, the concept of parcelling, building license, unlicensed building, building use permit and amnesty.

The aim of this course is to introduce students with the concepts of historical environment, historical structure and cultural assets, and make them become conscious about the functional changes in historical structures within the historical context. The content of the course is the definition of concepts related to conservation and restoration, explanation of restoration techniques, examination of domestic and international applications, explanation of laws and regulations related to the subject and understanding of contemporary approaches. It is aimed to reinforce the content of the course, with the field study and group seminars in the curriculum.

Consolidation of the knowledge and skills obtained through theoretical and practical lectures of architecturaleducation, with the real design, construction, management and production processes. (Practice inconstruction site)

Area Elective

General Elective

History of occupational health and safety. Work law. Occupational health and safety law. National and international conventions. Occupational diseases. Introduction to the concept of hazard and risk