COURSES AND DESCRIPTIONS
- SUBE 599 Term Project (Non-Credit) (ECTS: 10)
It is project work of graduate students without thesis.
- ARCH 510 Recycling Architecture (3+0+0)3, (ECTS: 10)
This course aims to use the concept of recycling at different scales in terms of sustainability, identity and quality as a new aesthetic tool in terms of design from the viewpoint of students' current developments on architectural recycling.The architect's recycling involves the conversion of disused and neglected buildings to modern uses and is an integral part of contemporary architectural design. Approaches related to the issue require to master certain strategies in order to consolidate the present tactical future. The course consists of lectures, student presentations and classroom discussions.
- ARCH 573 Ecology and Sustainability in Architecture (3+0+0)3, (ECTS: 10)
The main aim of the course is to convey to the students how ecological and sustainability trends that are increasingly valid throughout the world are reflected in the use of plants for architectural design studies. This approach is also intended to provide disciplinary communication between the architects, interior architects, landscape architects and city planners in terms of their ecological spatial design steps and principles. By defining definitions of ecology and sustainability trends, especially the importance of plants in architectural design and design are explained and related design information is taught in this framework. In this context, the systems and the spatial standards of planting a building are emphasized and examples are examined from the application.
- ARCH 519 Sustainable Currents in Settlements (3+0+0)3, (ECTS: 10)
The main aim of the course is to transfer the effects of the concept of sustainability, which is increasingly valid throughout the world, to the students, on the settlement areas through the new urban development trends. Individual definitions of existing and emerging settlement trends are made in terms of sustainability, their characteristics are specified, differences between currents and common directions are explained.
- ARCH 520 Sustainable Livability in Future Cities (3+0+0) 3, (ECTS: 10)
This course examines the current research on the future in the context of sustainable cities on the urban scale. As is known, the number of people living in cities is increasing day by day and the concept of livability is gaining importance in cities. This course will cover the concept of sustainable livability in cities; urban space, energy, ecology and mobility, and presents predictions and conclusions about the cities of your future.
- ARCH 525 Future Living: Shaping Architecture with Technology (3+0+0) 3, (ECTS: 10)
Parallel to the advances in digital technology, it has become an indispensable element of city life and built environments. Urban mobility in life is monitored and related to the built environment is monitored through data. In this process, "data" is an important concept and proactively means city, architecture and urban as a powerful tool. This course includes discussions on the ways in which future cities can be used for the prediction of the relation established by the city, architecture and urban concepts of the verse. In addition, the interactions of the built environment, human and digital technologies are revealed and the indispensable elements of future smart cities centering on human beings are addressed.
- PA 509 Environmental Policies and Local Governments (3+0+0) 3, (ECTS: 6)
This course will develop the capacity of the students to define, analyze and understand the complex nature of environmental problems at the local level. Students will be able to identify, develop and adapt policy instruments for the resolution of environmental problems and diagnose the implementation of the most appropriate scenario. Students will have the capacity to set a strategic environment for societal focal points and to identify a qualified environmental understanding in the direction of social benefit. Students will learn the lifestyles, behaviors and values necessary to achieve a positive social transformation. In addition, students will be able to evaluate the skills required for social action and their ability to reflect them critically with an interdisciplinary content. The course, causes and prevention policies of environmental problems, national and international environmental policy, sustainable development and environmental issues while examining the role of local governments in the development of environmental policies in Turkey and will be analyzed effect.
- CE 565 Sustainable Cities (3+0+0) 3, (ECTS: 10)
Energy performance criteria of buildings; alternative approaches to improving performance; developing policies and strategies for sustainable cities; energy efficiency in buildings; reduction of GHG emissions of buildings; clean water; solid waste management policies and technologies; approaches to the determination of climate change parameters in cities.
- CE 564 Sustainability Management and Legal Framework (3+0+0) 3, (ECTS: 10)
Basic principles of sustainability; techniques for sustainable environmental and economic management; financial, managerial and political issues, environmental policies; international agreements; sustainability economy.
- LAUD 525 Sustainability and Urban Resilience (3+0+0) 3, (ECTS: 10)
In this lesson, topics such as climate change sensitive planning, social durability are examined by examining the forms of urbanization in developed and developing countries as well as the social, physical / spatial problems that they have created from the 20th century to the present day. Strategies and sustainable urban planning and urban sustainability strategies of major international institutions and organizations, particularly the United Nations and the European Union, will be examined in this framework.
- LAUD 505 Sustainable Urban Open Spaces (3+0+0) 3, (ECTS: 10)
This course aims to examine sustainable urban design and the concepts and practices for realizing sustainable urban and sustainable urban life creation goals. In the course; sustainability concepts, history and development, sustainable design and planning principles and methods, green building materials and practices, sustainable urban design principles, sustainable cities and developments in the world in recent years.
- LAUD 506 Urban Open Space Quality (3+0+0) 3, (ECTS: 10)
In this course, access to high quality urban open space; quality of life, health, user satisfaction and improvement of social ties, so that the effect on sustainability is emphasized. Within the scope of the course, the criteria for the quality characteristics of the physical and spatial structure of urban open spaces will be discussed on the examples by examining the effects of these criteria on the use of these areas.
- LAUD 507 Design with Nature (3+0+0) 3, (ECTS: 10)
In this course, examine all components of the design taken together with the common denominator of nature as a natural system and "Design with Nature" is intended to reveal the importance of sustainability in the use of professional practice. In the course; All components of nature as a system; Functioning of natural systems and understanding of ecosystem; Basic concepts, approaches and tools of nature and design; Use of natural elements (land structure, plant material, water etc.) in design; Ecological Design Approach will be examined.
- LAUD 508 Ecological Sustainabiliy and Restoration (3+0+0) 3, (ECTS: 10)
The aim of the course is to give information about the basic principles and techniques for the improvement of ecology and environment-nature conservation issues and the rehabilitation, restoration and re-evaluation of problem areas. Within the scope of the course, an examination of contemporary examples such as urban ecology, ecosystem services, environmental problems, problematic areas and sustainability, legal framework, abandoned industrial areas, mine and quarries, solid waste areas, forest areas, dune areas, wetlands and restoration ecology and innovative approaches.
- LAUD 512 Inclusive Urban Design (3+0+0) 3, (ECTS: 10)
The aim of this course is to understand the importance of universal design for everybody, to learn the legislation about barrier design with accessibility, the physical disability, mentally disabled, sick, to transfer the necessary information and criteria for the design of urban spaces to suit the needs of different user groups, and to acquire habit of using unobstructed design criteria in each project.
- LAUD 514 Climate-sensitive Urban Design Approaches (3+0+0) 3, (ECTS: 10)
Urban design to promote of the climate and energy-efficient design for the role played by design factors, to promote design components and innovations related to improving the climate comfort and energy efficiency, climate with balanced and sustainable in different climatic zones venues to teach the method to be followed to design, to create awareness of the effects of habitat global warming.
- LAUD 522 ‘Right to the City’ from a Social/Sociological Perspective (3+0+0) 3, (ECTS: 10)
The aim of this course is to enable students to follow the debates in the social sciences in the light of Henri Lefebvre's concept of "right to the city". Starting from Lefebvre, the course aims to discuss how the city can be more friendly, socially sustainable and inclusive cities in terms of these groups by leaning on the experiences of disadvantaged groups such as children, young people and urban poor in social discrimination in the city in the course of researchers such as Purcell, Mayer and Harvey .
- LAUD 523 Sustainable Urban Regeneration (3+0+0) 3, (ECTS: 10)
This course aims to industrialization after applied in cities and urban centers after the surveying of urban transformation projects, not only physically and economically thriving oriented as a response to this approach is applied and today holds an important place in various policy and regional funds of the European Union 'social sustainability', accessible housing policies, and 'sustainable urban transformation'.
- LAUD 524 Urban Image and Placemaking (3+0+0) 3, (ECTS: 10)
The aim of this course is to discuss the importance of having a strong built environment image by analyzing the components of the urban image, an essential element of the urban common memory. Where there is attachment and sense of belonging, but there is a well-designed urban image, there is a fate. In this context, the environmental image phenomenon will be examined in the context of the theories of various theorists, discussing placemaking practices, the role of cultural heritage in the formation of the cause, design principles for sustainable tourism, and design methods to create and protect the urban / environmental image.
- LAUD 528 Green Infrastructure (3+0+0) 3, (ECTS: 10)
The aim of the course is to analyze the infrastructures of the cities with natural elements and approaches and examples. Green infrastructure is a system designed to preserve and manage the ecological benefits that nature systems and other open spaces will bring to people and the environment, creating green corridors between them. Creation of different types of green spaces within the city for the prevention of heat island effect, large green spaces and green passage corridors where the animals can live in the city, creation of natural drainage systems and biological ponds, rainwater management, collection of rain water with soil channels and ponds, solar and wind energy use at the building level, urban agriculture, green roof, terrace gardens and vertical gardens.
- ARCH 526 Contemporary Wood Conservation, (3+0+0)3, (ECTS: 10)
In this course, contemporary wood preservation practices; morphology of wood material used as building material The reasons for the decay of wood, the deterioration patterns of old wood, and the modern wood preservation technology are explained by giving examples of coniferous trees-broad-leaved trees, examined under their headings. "ICOMOS 2017 Timber Frame Heritage Conservation Decisions" will be discussed in detail.
- ARCH 527 Stone Conservation Studies, (3+0+0)3, (ECTS: 10)
In this course, contemporary stone protection practices; the petrology of the rocks used as building blocks, the causes of the stone deterioration in the old monuments after exploring under the titles of Magmatic, Sedimentary and Metamorphic Rocks are examined and the contemporary stone protection technology is explained with examples. New technologies such as natural and artificial stones will be explored for the protection of inorganic porous building materials (IPBM).
- MSN 500 Fundamentals of Materials Science, (3+0+0)3, (ECTS: 10)
It is aimed at students coming from different disciplines. It is aimed to give the bases of materials science and solve problems with common examples. The physical, mechanical, optical, electrical, electronic and magnetic properties of materials, crystal chemistry, crystallography, crystal systems, phase diagrams, material production technologies, corrosion and protection will be handled in relation to crystal structures.