scholarly journals INCORPORATING SUSTAINABILITY PRINCIPLES INTO ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN EDUCATION: RESULTS OF AN EXPERIMENTAL DESIGN STUDIO

2019 ◽  
Vol 14 (3) ◽  
pp. 143-158
Author(s):  
Kamal Eldin Mohamed ◽  
Soofia Tahira Elias-Ozkan
Keyword(s):  
Experimental Design ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Sustainable Design ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Building Projects ◽  
Final Design ◽  
Design Projects ◽  
Negative Impacts ◽  
Sustainability Principles

Design is a structured process or a tactical guideline to accomplish a unique expectation of a product, while a design studio is the environment where students are taught the skills to design the product, which may be a building. Hence, the design studio course is the most important component of the architectural education curriculum; it is where the students get an opportunity to apply the theoretical knowledge gained through lecture-based courses. Yet most theory is not put into practice; consequently, the principles of sustainable design solutions are developed. There is an urgent need to teach future architects how to integrate sustainable design principles into their projects in order to prevent or mitigate environmental degradation due to the negative impacts of building projects. This experimental study initiated a new design studio pedagogy and a novel teaching structure for integrating sustainability principles into the architectural design projects of 3rd year students. It also evolved a testing method to assess the success of the new pedagogy and the students' final design projects. This paper presents the results of the experimental design studio and delivers recommendations for subsequent sustainable design studio courses.

scholarly journals Sustainable Architectural Design Education: An Improved Experimental Method in a 3rd Year Design Studio

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 64
Author(s):  
Kamal Eldin Mohamed
Keyword(s):  
Design Education ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Improved Method ◽  
Education Programs ◽  
Knowledge And Skills ◽  
Instructor Interaction ◽  
Architectural Design Studio ◽  
Curriculum Education ◽  
Sustainability Principles

The design studio is a unique class format within the architectural curriculum education, in which learning is based on student-instructor interaction and learning by experiences while architectural design is the collective of knowledge and skills to accomplish a unique expectation of a product. Sustainable design has been incorporated into many architecture curriculum education programs but there has been lack of merging in design studio project. This study introduces an improved method of the first experimental Sustainable Architectural Design Studio (SADS) with restructured teaching tools for integrating sustainability principles in design studio along with the studio outcome. In additional, it presents the evaluation and the assessment of the improved method as well as the finding along with the recommendations for the future experimental.

scholarly journals Sustainable architectural design education: A pilot study in a 3rd year studio

2018 ◽  
Vol 2 (3) ◽  
pp. 126 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kamal Eldin Mohamed ◽  
Soofia Tahira Elias Özkan
Keyword(s):  
Pilot Study ◽  
Resource Use ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Design Strategies ◽  
Design Decisions ◽  
Human Needs ◽  
Existing Problems ◽  
Sustainability Principles

A design studio is the heart and soul of the architectural education curricula where students learn to make repetitive design decisions that result in design strategies for resource use in order to create an environmental system that reacts to the human needs and requirements or solves existing problems. Integrating sustainability principles into the undergraduate design studio is an urgent need in order to teach young architects sustainable design principles that can stop the continued environmental degradation of the planet. This study proposed a new design studio pedagogy for integrating sustainability principles with a method to test the new pedagogy and the students’ final products. This paper presents the tests results of the pilot study and provides recommendations for the experimental design studio of the following semesters.

Towards a Personalised Learning in Basic Design Studio: The use of Neuropsychological Tests

2017 ◽  
Vol 4 (11) ◽  
pp. 200-204
Author(s):  
Aktan Acar
Keyword(s):  
Educational Psychology ◽  
Neuropsychological Tests ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Instructional Methods ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Basic Design ◽  
Key Factors ◽  
Personalised Learning ◽  
Learning Domains

Basic design education was conventionally structured around standardised lesson plans and instructional methods. Although each architectural school considers itself as an ecole, the content and the methods of basic design courses mostly follow a particular layout. The principles or qualities, elements and compositional rules of design constitute the content, whereas the methods can vary according to the instructors. These content and dependent methods consider students as passive receivers, whereas students of basic architectural design course should be active learners, participants and even contributors to the process. Hence, it is of importance to consider the students as individuals with particular skills and learning domains. The characteristics of each student should be depicted. In this way, it could be possible develop personalised learning methods and more active and productive basic design studios. This study aims to present methods of educational psychology, particularly neuropsychological tests as key factors of personalised learning in studios. Keywords: Basic design studio, educational psychology, neuropsychological tests.

scholarly journals Immateriality in Design and Pedagogy

2019 ◽  
pp. 68-71
Author(s):  
James F. Eckler
Keyword(s):  
Design Education ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Educational Setting ◽  
Instructional Models ◽  
Micro Scale ◽  
Virtual Spaces ◽  
Conventional Design ◽  
Architectural Design Studio

Instructional models are increasingly online, remote, and accessible whenever convenient, ostensibly leaving the conventional design studio behind. What are the consequences of design education without a place of its own — the studio? What are the consequences if architecture Schools resist the pressures to move to a remote platform? The Architectural design studio is unique educational setting in which Information doesn’t flow in a single direction, from professor to student. Instead, it is exchanged in complex patterns of dialogue and production that form the foundation of a micro-scale community. the quality of the education is predicated on the interaction among members of this community. This presents a challenge to the virtual spaces of education that are increasingly becoming the norm. And, while virtual spaces and places of education have not yet fully assimilated the design studio, this does not mean the studio can’t leverage advantages of these emergent grounds of discourse.

scholarly journals The Metaphoric Perceptions of Architectural Design Students On The Concept Of Jury System In Architectural Design Education

2017 ◽  
Vol 7 (2) ◽  
pp. 35-39
Author(s):  
Elvan Elif Özdemir ◽  
Fulya Pelin Cengizoglu
Keyword(s):  
Design Education ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Assessment Tool ◽  
Learning By Doing ◽  
Study Data ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Learning And Teaching ◽  
Design Students ◽  
Jury System ◽  
Architectural Design Education

The core of the architectural curriculum is based on the design studio which focuses on learning by doing. The learning process in the design studio is takes place in critic sessions. These sessions are kind of communication of ideas and transmitting of knowledge from instructor to student. In contrast to other disciplines, in the architectural design education the evaluation and the assessment are the important part of the learning and teaching process. The Jury system is a traditional architectural learning assessment tool. In this system the student present his/her work in the front of the jury and get feedback or criticism. According to Webster (2006), Jury is the most performative stage of education where the student and agency (the discipline of architecture-as represented by the critics) actually interact. (Webster, 2006). The aim of this study was to reveal the perceptions of architectural design students’ about the ‘Jury system’ as an grading system in architectural design studios. The participants for this study included second, third and fourth grade architectural design  students enrolled in the Department of Architecture  at the Faculty of Architecture of Mersin University during the 2014-2015 school year. To collect data, each participant was asked to complete the prompt “A jury is like . . . …because . . . …..”  . Phenomenological design was used in the study. The content analysis technique was used to analyze and interpret the study data. The detailed discussion will be presented in full paper.

scholarly journals Intuition in the Design Studio: A Perspective on Student’s Creativity and Design Process

2021 ◽  
pp. 37-48
Author(s):  
Zeynep Ozge Yalcin ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Design Process ◽  
Design Education ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Rational Approach ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Design Problems ◽  
Final Project ◽  
Scientific Approach ◽  
Architectural Design Studio ◽  
Architectural Knowledge

In the twentieth century, as a result of the transition to a scientific approach in design, intuition lost its validity and design became a rational act. In well-defined problems, the design process could be structured with this scientific approach, however, in an ill-defined structure, rationality needs to be combined with intuition to analyzing the design problems, decisions making and generate solutions by supporting the creativity of design students. In this respect, intuition can assist to strengthen and develop the required abilities during the process. Accordingly, the aim is to understand the role of intuition, how students use it to work creatively through sketches, and conceptual ideas, and the problematic process of transformation into architectural knowledge in the design process. The study carried out a literature review to draw an understanding of the dimensions of intuition and its role in the architectural design studio. The results of the study demonstrate that intuition has a crucial role in the design process. Relatedly, the lack of intuition becomes problematic, due to the non-conveyable character that it cannot find a place for itself in the design education in terms of crits from tutors, and alteration of intuition into concrete representations leads to a gap between intuition and the final project. Furthermore, these problems could be eliminated through the coherent use of two features which are rational approach and intuition. In this respect, intuition, creativity, and rationality is needed to perform together in order to achieve success by deciphering the potentials of the project through the process.

Thinking manifesto on basic design studios in architectural education

2018 ◽  
Vol 5 (6) ◽  
pp. 96-100
Author(s):  
Hakan Saglam
Keyword(s):  
Design Education ◽  
Architectural Design ◽  
Architectural Education ◽  
Design Studio ◽  
Basic Design ◽  
Architectural Theory ◽  
Final Project ◽  
History Of ◽  
Education Design ◽  
Education Delivery

Design education delivery is reconsidered every semester from the first basic design course through to the final project class, and while there are diverse approaches to architectural theory worldwide, the problem of teaching architectural design is a continual question to educators, especially for design educators. Over different periods of time, very different approaches to design education have been pursued. These differing theories form the basis for architectural design education. Throughout this process, the history of design education has been shaped and it is important to be able to use the accumulation of knowledge from different fields within the context of ‘architectural education’. When we consider the transformation of design education historically and the differing approaches today, such as the effects of changing theories, scientific-culturalsub-structures, transformed super structures and the ever-changing theories on architectural education, the design studio educators should incorporate the benefits of this diverse learned knowledge into the design studio education.Keywords: Basic design, architectural education, design studios.

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