Interior Architecture and Environmental Design
http://hdl.handle.net/10679/311
2023-10-07T03:47:56ZPhotogrammetric model optimization in digitalization of architectural heritage: Yedikule fortress
http://hdl.handle.net/10679/8717
Photogrammetric model optimization in digitalization of architectural heritage: Yedikule fortress
Sancak, N.; Uzun, F.; Turhan, Kartal; Saraoǧlu Yumni, H. K.; Özer, D.K.
The idea of "digitalization of architectural heritage"has recently gained prominence to represent architectural and historical assets. With all these potentials, this study aims to create optimized models that can be used in serious gaming environments by presenting a method of photogrammetry. As a case study, Yedikule Fortress and its surroundings, which have a multi-layered structure that includes many cultural aspects such as Byzantine, Ottoman, and Republican periods in the historical process, have been studied within the scope of digitizing the architectural heritage to create an optimized model for gaming environments. The study was methodologically constructed in three phases: Photogrammetry, polygon modeling, and low poly/high poly baking process. The fortress and its surroundings are modeled using a high-detail point cloud and a high-poly mesh using aerial photogrammetry. The high-poly model was taken as a reference and transferred into a low-poly model as a mesh map, texture, and light characteristics. This allowed the high poly model to operate more efficiently and effectively in game engines. As a result, the study created a detailed and optimized model for the game engines to produce serious games specific to light and texture data, to be used on devices that support mixed reality (MR) technologies.
2023-06-24T00:00:00Z(Lived) Spaces of belonging, culture, and gender: Spatial practices of home for Syrian women in Istanbul
http://hdl.handle.net/10679/8689
(Lived) Spaces of belonging, culture, and gender: Spatial practices of home for Syrian women in Istanbul
Sezginalp Özçetin, Pınar; Rottmann, Susan Beth
Combining architectural and cultural anthropological approaches, this study explores the domestic lived spaces of Syrian women in Istanbul to understand how they create belonging in a new social and architectural setting and perform gender roles. We analyze data gathered from several types of dwellings according to the concept of spatial practice of Henri Lefebvre to explore how women’s daily life praxis fosters feelings of contentment and safety, and how they reflect on their previous homes in Syria through a lens of nostalgia. At the same time, we explore how houses in Syria are remembered via reflections on spatial changes. Methodologically, we rely on semi-structured interviews and mental map drawings of houses in Istanbul and reminisced houses from Syria. Ultimately, this research provides a fine-grained portrait of the (lived) space of Syrian women, showing how they reconstruct domestic lives through past/Syrian and current/Turkish spatial practices.
2022-01-01T00:00:00ZFurniture configurations in an active learning classroom make further differences in student outcomes
http://hdl.handle.net/10679/8590
Furniture configurations in an active learning classroom make further differences in student outcomes
Kepez, O.; Üst, Selin
Purpose: The aim of this study is to understand the effect of class configurations in an active learning classroom (ALC) on students' self-perception of experiences and learning outcomes, namely participation, performance, motivation and creativity. Design/methodology/approach: A self-administered survey (N = 131) was conducted in seven classes from the varied disciplines of communication, interior design and architecture. During the first half of the semester, all selected courses were conducted in traditional classrooms, whereas those in the second half were conducted in an ALC. ALC was designed to be used with several furniture configurations which could be easily set up by members of the learning community themselves. The survey was conducted at the end of semester before final exams, when students have a clear idea of the experiences in both the traditional and the new (ALC) classrooms, having spent equal time in each of these learning environments. Findings: The main finding of the study is that students were eager to have future classes in the ALC rather than in traditional settings since the students experienced better learning outcomes in the ALC. During the second half of the semester, students who were in classes conducted following active learning (AL) pedagogies, with its supportive spatial configurations, were more aware of the learning outcomes facilitated by the physical environment. Further, the authors found that the increase in the number of furniture configurations has a statistically significant positive impact on learning outcomes. Originality/value: AL pedagogy is often studied as a way of teaching and rarely with its associated classroom environments. In most of the existing studies, the configuration of furniture has often been overlooked within an AL environment by a learning community. This study fills the gap in emphasising the spatial aspects of the ALC by focusing on the specific pedagogy being followed.
2022-01-01T00:00:00ZInvestigating embodied simulation experience in perception of architectural space
http://hdl.handle.net/10679/7928
Investigating embodied simulation experience in perception of architectural space
Yanaş, Elif Aktaş; Gul, L. F.
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2021-09-01T00:00:00Z