Basic Information
Course Name:
Architectural Design Studio III
Language of Instruction:
English
Instructor:
Öğr. Gör. SELİN AKDEĞİRMEN ERCAN
Course Objectives
The studio guides students to explore spatial experience, context, user, function, scale, and formal composition, while critically engaging with underutilized urban abandoned areas and their relationships within the urban fabric. Within the project site located in Antalya’s Haşim İşcan neighborhood, students are expected to investigate the transformation potential of inner-city abandoned areas and develop programmatic proposals based on the concept of hospitality, determining the specific functions themselves and questioning how these programs can integrate with the neighborhood context. Throughout the studio, iterative design processes will encourage students to examine strategies connecting Antalya’s urban identity, cultural narratives, and landscape, while testing diverse design approaches and developing a critical understanding of architectural representation in the regeneration of neglected urban spaces
Course Content
This studio explores hospitality as a spatial framework for reactivating underutilized urban areas in Antalya’s Haşim İşcan neighborhood. Rather than approaching hospitality as a predefined building typology, the course examines it as a strategy for negotiating thresholds, inclusion, and urban encounter. Students will design a hospitality-oriented building of 1000–1200 m² grounded in a layered site analysis structured around physical-spatial and relational dimensions. Through the investigation of topography, environmental conditions, existing urban fabric, everyday use patterns, boundaries, traces of dereliction, and collective memory, students will develop proposals that respond critically to the site’s material and socio-temporal conditions. Architectural proposals are expected to combine enclosed, semi-open, and open spaces as gradients of hospitality, mediating between public and private realms while engaging Antalya’s urban identity, cultural narratives, and landscape context. Programmatic functions will not be prescribed; instead, they will emerge from the students’ analytical readings and their interpretation of hospitality as a spatial and ethical position within the urban fabric.
Prerequisites / Corequisites
ARC 1012 Architectural Design Studio II
Course Books / Materials / Recommended Resources
1. Gehl, J. (1971). Life Between Buildings: Using Public Space. Washington DC: Island Press. 2. Carmona, M. (2003). Public places urban spaces: The dimensions of urban design. Routledge. 3. Lynch, K. (1964). The image of the city. MIT Press. 4. Rossi, A. (1984). The architecture of the city. MIT Press. 5. Sung,Y. (2009). New uses for neglected spaces. 6. Velazco, T. K. (2010). Full and Void: Activating Public Space in the Contemporary City. Electronic Dissertation. 7. Whyte, W. H. (1980). The social life of small urban spaces
Academic Integrity and Artificial Intelligence
It includes violations of school integrity, but is not limited to cheating, plagiarism, but also handing over the work of others, using the work of a lecturer or someone else without permission. Any breach of integrity is a serious academic offense and is subject to disciplinary action.