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Cities in evolution: diachronic transformation of urban and rural settlements
(Grünberg Verlag, 2021) Camiz, Alessandro; Architecture; CAMIZ, Alessandro
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Istanbul's heritage at risk : the Galata district
(FrancoAngeli, 2020) Orlandi, Luca; Ivkovska, V.; Architecture; ORLANDI, Luca
Istanbul's Galata district is a multicultural crossroad in the Mediterranean. Throughout Istanbul's transformation into a modern metropolis Galata maintained its distinctive and cosmopolitan character due to the cultural diversity of its inhabitants. This aspect of Galata was perpetuated by the continuous arrival of foreigners, who brought their own culture, traditions, and religion. This study demonstrates the architectural richness of the district by examining its coexisting civilizations, past and present. The district today faces the alarming possibility of disappearance due to neglect and lack of improvements. It is important to define Galata and its past layers as a historical and cultural asset and to preserve the richness and multicultural origins of this integral part of Istanbul's identity.
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Modelli progettuali del locus fratrum predicatorum: Ravenna (1269). Design models of the locus fratrum predicatorum: Ravenna (1269)
(Steinhäuser Verlag, Wuppertal, 2021) Camiz, Alessandro; Architecture; CAMIZ, Alessandro
On March the 2nd 1269 Philip from Pistoia, archbishop of Ravenna, in presence of a large group of persons, ordered the commune of Ravenna to assign a substantial urban area for the construction of the church, the convent and the cemetery of S. Domenico. The document describes the properties to expropriate in particular the church of S. Maria in Gallope, a turreted palatial complex whose construction dated back to the Byzantine times (VI century), and a number of houses. The centrality of the place, previously linked to the exarchal residence, thus assumed a new character oriented towards the settlement of the Dominicans in Ravenna. Subsequently, on October 19th of the same year, the municipal council ordered the extimatio of the area, and in a meeting discussed the construction modalities, including the property’s boundaries detailed description, the construction of a new road and the project’s financial details. The interest for this case study relies on the double instrumentum, archiepiscopal and municipal, testifying a concordia inter clericos et laycos that, even though noted in the communal statute for over 50 years, assumed here a specific and programmatic character. The reconstruction of the pre-existing and subsequent topography of the site, based on the emphyteutic lease documents (V-XIII cent.), superimposed on the rectified redesign of the Gregorian cadaster2, allowed an in-depth study of the design models of the locus fratrum predicatorum in Ravenna, and through the comparison with other coeval examples, the individuation of the typical formation process of the western conventual building.
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Reminiscences of Ottoman vernacular in Galata
(Center for Cities, University of Moratuwa, 2019-06) Orlandi, Luca; Architecture; ORLANDI, Luca
The aim of this paper is to present the lost heritage of the vernacular architecture in Galata district in Istanbul that existed during the Ottoman period. It presents the Ottoman vernacular houses that once existed in the area that were lost throughout the centuries due to the big fires and rapid reconstructions. The paper presents this rich vernacular architecture by detecting its existence and analysis from gravures, sketches and images from the past. After the Ottoman conquest, Galata as well as the city of Constantinople was affected by the process of Ottomanization. The transformations were very much predominant in the urban layout and the texture of the area was improved by more domestic and traditional architecture in wood, remarking Galata into a typical Ottoman environment. After the conquest, the former Genoese colony evolved, in architectural manner. This was achieved through the towns‘ growth marked with arrival of foreigners, the so called ‘Franks’ or Levantines, who were attracted to those lands by the new possibilities to expand trades and commerce from the European and Mediterranean coasts towards the East. These populations settled in the Galata area, bringing their own cultural habits, customs, traditions as well as religion, —contaminating” the already existing and mixed local population, composed predominantly of Greeks, or better Rum, Armenians and Jews and later on of Moors, Arabs as well as Turks. The Ottoman Galata was affected severely during the mid-nineteenth century and up until the proclamation of the Turkish Republic, when the rich vernacular built environment slowly disappeared leaving very little traces today, of what once used to be a typical example of an Ottoman vernacular in the capital. The paper traces this history and presents a glimpse into the ottoman vernacular in Galata.
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Green infrastructure in water management: Stakeholder perceptions from South East Queensland, Australia
(Elsevier, 2023-06) Sheng, B.; Cushing, D.; Satherley, S.; Özgün, Abdulkadir Kaan; Architecture; ÖZGÜN, Abdulkadir Kaan
Green infrastructure (GI) originated in landscape architecture and landscape ecology and is widely used as an approach to sustainable water management. However, there is no commonly accepted definition of GI for water management in the literature. This research was undertaken in South East Queensland (SEQ), Australia, which has experienced a long-term cycle of floods and droughts. The research employed the Q-sort methodology supplemented with semi-structured interviews to understand perceptions of GI amongst various stakeholders. Twenty-seven research participants included design, planning, and engineering practitioners, government officers, scientists and community members familiar with GI. Our findings indicate these participants regard GI as a broad concept containing both natural and engineered semi-natural assets offering multiple benefits and functions, yet rarely recognised its economic benefits. Participants were divided on GI's effectiveness for drought management. We propose a new, consolidated definition of GI for stormwater management: “GI is a strategically planned network of high-quality natural and semi-natural assets that mimics natural processes, with multiple benefits and multifunctionality, such as enhancing stormwater management and providing environmental quality, with social and economic benefits”. We recommend that water management-related policies, strategies, plans, and design guidelines in SEQ and elsewhere, should include a consistent definition of GI for water management to assist professional and community understanding and inform decision-making about flood and drought.
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Design workshops as a tool for informal architectural education
(Open House International Association, 2015) Turgut, Hülya; Cantürk, E.; Architecture; TURGUT, Hülya
Although the design studio has formally been the locus for design education, informal education approach has gained more and more acceptance in the world. Informal education, which is the education outside the confines of curricula, includes the acquisition of knowledge and skills through experience, reading, social contact, etc. Workshops cover the essential weight of this informal education. Although the role of the design workshops in architectural design education has been very limited through overall design education’s past, many schools of architecture have taken steps to consider workshops as the part of informal learning and education. “Culture and Space in the Build environment” (CSBE) Network of IAPS have been organizing “culture and design workshop series” for graduate and post graduate students in Turkey since 2001. In these workshops, a design teaching approach based on the conceptual framework of culture and space interactions is applied. The conceptual framework developed for the architectural design education, takes three fundamental starting points for workshops as the part of informal design education: as a tool for informal design education (method), as a tool for learning & understanding culture-environment relations (content), and as a tool for awareness of different environments/contexts (scale/place). The foundation of the conceptual framework is based on the general approach that discusses the “architectural design process” with regards to environmental context and content. Within this context the aim of the paper is to discuss and evaluate the importance and the contribution of workshops as tool for informal architectural design education. These discussions will be held on the case of IAPS-CBSE Network’s last workshop “Istanbul as a Palimpsest City and Imperfection”. In the paper, the process, the method, the content and the results of workshop studies will be discussed and evaluated.
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The digitalization of studio practices and its impact on the development of design literacy of first-year architecture students
(Oslo Metropolitan University, 2023-12-31) Yorgancıoğlu, Derya; Dağlıoğlu, E. K.; Architecture; YORGANCIOĞLU, Derya
Digital skills are emphasized in the ongoing process of digital transformation in higher education. In this article, digital literacy is discussed within the broader perspective of design literacy and the acceleration of the digitalization process of first-year design education at the time of the outbreak of the COVID-19 pandemic in spring 2020is highlighted. The article interrogates the role of digital skills in the develop-ment of designliteracyof first-year architecture students through a multiple case analysis of ARCH 101 design studio practices executed in the Bachelor of Architecture programmes at the Özyeğin University,Department of Architecture andtheMiddle East Technical University,Department of Architecture. The digitalization processesof ARCH 101 studiosincreased rapidly when the COVID-19 pandemic started and resulted in the integration of digital tools into basic design education in ways thattransformed(1) the communication modalities and the representation and research strategies used by students, and (2) the understanding and methodologiesof the design process when used as generative design tools
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Türkiye'de tarım üretimindeki değişim dinamiklerinin buğday üretimindeki mekânsal yansımaları
(Yüzüncü Yıl Üniversitesi, 2015) Göçer, Kenan; Architecture; GÖÇER, Kenan
Türkiye'de tarım sektöründe üretim, dış ticaret ve istihdam açısından önemli boyutta değişim gözlenmektedir. Önemli bir tahıl üreticisi olan Türkiye'de özellikle tahıl üretiminde dışa bağımlılık artarak dünya ortalamasına yaklaşmaktadır. Bu durum gıda güvenliği için hayati olan buğday üretimine de olumsuz yansımaktadır. Bu çalışmada ilçelere göre buğday üretiminin coğrafi dağılımını üretim alanı, üretim miktarı ve verimliliği dikkate alarak nasıl bir mekânsal dinamiğe sahip olduğunu mekânsal ekonometri teknikleri kullanarak göstermek amaçlanmıştır. Yakın gelecek için buğday üretiminde sürdürülebilirlik açısından avantajlı ve dezavantajlı ilçeler tespit edilmiştir. Buğday üretim alanı, üretimi ve verimliliği açısından artış gösteren ilçeler sürdürülebilirlik açısından avantajlı durumu göstermektedir. Sürdürülebilirlik şartlarını en iyi sağlayan ilçeler Trakya, Güneydoğu Anadolu'nun batısı ve Ege bölgesinde görülmektedir. Tahıl ambarı İç Anadolu Bölgesi ise sürdürülebilirlik açısından yeterince güçlü çıkmamıştır. Buğday üretiminde mekansal etkileşim İç Anadolu'da zayıf çıkmıştır.
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Landscape planning for sustainable water management: a systematic review of green infrastructure literature in the Australian context
(Taylor & Francis, 2023) Sheng, B.; Özgün, Abdulkadir Kaan; Satherley, S.; Cushing, D. F.; Architecture; ÖZGÜN, Abdulkadir Kaan
Australian cities have experienced a high number of floods and droughts. In Australia, green infrastructure (GI) is increasingly popular in considering natural processes in sustainable water management practices. However, to date, there has been little examination of how the academic literature has addressed the use of GI in Australian landscape planning for water management. To investigate this, we applied a thematic framework and used the PRISMA approach to identify and analyse 98 peer-reviewed papers to better understand whether and how landscape planning perspectives are considered in current water management approaches in Australia. We found a recent increase in Australian-based literature related to GI for water management. However, there is limited literature discussing the significance of landscape connectivity and the multi-functionality of GI. This article concludes with recommendations for future research on the landscape planning principles of multi-functionality, landscape connectivity, and the integration of multiple scales of GI in Australian urban water management.
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Paesaggio. Ciò che è o ciò che si vede?
(Istituto della Enciclopedia italiana fondata da Giovanni Treccani, 2020-09) Camiz, Alessandro; Architecture; CAMIZ, Alessandro
There are different ways of understanding the landscape that surrounds us. According to the European Landscape Convention (2000), it "designates a certain part of the territory, as perceived by the populations, whose character derives from the action of natural and / or human factors and their interrelations".