metu | arch 101+102

first yeardesign studio

basicdesign

Türel SaranlıŞenol Yağız

İpek Gürsel DinoA. Berrin Zeytun Çakmaklı

Seray TürkayHayri Dörtdivanlıoğlu

Ece YoltayAylin Atacan

metu | arch 101

The main objective of the course is to prepare architecture students to architectural design and introduce them to the studio culture by establishing the fundamental skills of design thinking and design exploration. The students are expected to explore organization, form and space using a variety of design elements and materials. The formal and tectonic characteristics of design are placed into the focus. Experimental techniques of design thinking and making are emphasized.

course objective

3d designwith modularplanar geometry

1 mm cardboard in grey, white and black color.

Make a design. In this design, the elements should define and organize voids. The overall size of your design should not exceed 35x35x35 cm.

Design elements with modular planar geometry. The dimensions of your elements should be greater than 4cm and smaller than 16 cm.

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3d designwith reversibletransformations

1 mm cardboard in grey, white and black color.

Make a design. In this design, the elements should define and organize voids. The overall size of your design should not exceed 35x35x35cm.

You are required to generate your own design elements by physically transforming a number of design elements that you will choose from your previous exercise (exercise 7). You should apply reversible transformations (folding, bending), and also can cut without clipping out parts. Prior to transforming, your element size should be greater than 4cm and smaller than 16 cm.

material

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interscapeintersectingvoids in space

Timber sticks (balsa), wire, wire mesh, cardboard, acetate, balsa board, metal board, etc.”

Construct a number of prismatic volumes made of timber sticks or wire. Organize these design units in intersection with each other, and generate new spaces of intersection. Your organization should ensure multiple instances of spatial continuity between spaces of intersection. The physical intersections should endure structural stability by taking construction principles into account. Moreover, such spatial continuities should demonstrate the transition of different spatial qualities, such as opaque to transparent, permeable to impermeable, light to dark, small to large, etc. The overall design should fit within 125000cm3.

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introduction toarchitectural design

Türel SaranlıŞenol Yağız

A. Berrin Zeytun Çakmaklıİnci Basa

Seray TürkayHayri Dörtdivanlıoğlu

Ece YoltayEgemen Berker Kızılcan

metu | arch 102

3d designexploring differentspatial qualities

Wooden sticks, nylon thread.Materials with different colors and textures.

In this exercise, you will continue to explore the design of different spatial qualities by means of light, texture and color. You first need to construct a cube of 45 x 45 x 45 cm. Subdivide this cube with a nylon thread into a 3x3x3 grid. Within this grid, determine a number of spaces adjacent to each other. In order to create various visual experiences in these spaces, you need to make use of the potentials of different spatial qualities. You need to introduce a set of principles that guide the flow of spaces by means of light and different surface attributes. The relationships between these spaces can be based on rhythm, repetition, contrast, harmony, proportion, scale, etc.

Light and surface attributes such as color, texture and pattern are intrinsic qualities of architectural spaces. They can help define spatial boundaries, expand and accentuate spatial conditions, create links and delineate one space from another.

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workshopexperiencingmaterial and structure

exploring structure

pavillion for warm-uparchitectural studio

Appropriate tension materials and compression sticks

For your pavillion you are asked to design a suspension structure with cables and membranes and generate a spatial hierarchy, with a set of activities within the space. Remember that spatiality of your pavillion will be defined both by the surface of the land and the form of the suspension structure that you will create. On the other hand, your structural form will develop within an interaction with your planning of the area. Thus, an integration of space and structural form is expected. Approach and entrance to the pavillion should be considered as a fundamental design parameter.

You are expected to design a pavilion –a representative structure, that will provide adequate space for a warm-up architectural studio. It is important that this space should attract the high-school students / future architects and represents a specific honesty, simplicity, and economy in structure, which can be simplified as structural integrity. This exercise requires the provision of a workshop area, indoor and outdoor exhibition areas. (max. 80 m2).

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workshopmapping andsurveying

[re]creation of self

exploring bodyand space

In this exercise you are expected to design a complex and multipartite spatial object having several parts or divisions for different motives for regenerating yourself in a public open area. Your object is required to display an interaction capacity through the dynamic emergence and flow of transformations of the elements (and components) of your design.For this task on space-body relationship, you need to make a research on human postures and dimensions in relation with different activity patterns. It is also important that your unit should have a structural stability, as well as a creative and aesthetic expression in form and size.

given

- Model 1/20- Abstract human figure 1/20- Concept Board, vertical A3- Photograph of the model

asked

a survey ofbodily topographies

landspace

LANDSPACE is a continuous environment resulted from an expansion of topographies by the forces of bodily interaction.

In the pursuit of designing LANDSPACE, you are expected to benefit from and further your experiences in the processes of designing spatial object to explore interaction between body and architectural space. Yet, LANDSPACE should be considered neither as a spatial object nor as a landscape but rather as a constructed environment within which landscapes and architectural spaces merge and emerge as a single homogenous formation for bodily interactions.

For this task, you should seek for the possibilities of bodily interactions through and within architectural space; LANDSPACE should create an experiential environment that offers a survey of bodily topographies.

To achieve expressive environments sustaining structural durability and formal coherency, a systematic understanding of design and production should be embraced. In other words, the selected way of production should lead the way of design and vice-versa. By employing a consistent way of making through the design process, you are expected to achieve an integrated system of design and production, which will lead to a coherency of form and structure in the LANDSPACE.

For your design processes, you are asked to select and sustain one of the following production methods/systems:

- layering / sectioning / sequential framing- tessellation / folding- modulation / repetition- aggregation / stacking

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