ARCH586 DESCRIPTIVE AND SYSTEMATIC APPROACHES IN DESIGN
| Course Code: | 1200586 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (3.00 - 0.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 8.0 |
| Department: | Architecture |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Graduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. İPEK GÜRSEL DİNO |
| Offered Semester: | Spring Semesters. |
Course Objectives
This course considers two questions: How do people design? and How can computers design? We review the research that has been undertaken for answering these questions and look at the theoretical frameworks, research methods and research results.
IN line with the main objectives, this semester will particularly address issues regarding computational approaches focusing on sustainable architectural design. The ways in which intuitive / manual design processes and the systematic use of dijital tools (of modeling, performance evaluation, data analysis and visualization) will be experienced and explored on given design problems.
Course Content
A graduate elective that tries to shed light on the design process though readings and exercises; dwells on how design is approached from design cognition framework with descriptive methods, how design goals can be precisely stated with systematic methods and how design intentions can be explored via enumeration by computational methods.
Course Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course, the students are expected to:
- know and synthesize intuitive and systematic approaches to sustainable / performative design in computational architecture
- apply computational methods of modeling, simulation, data analysis and visualization supporting sustainable architectural design
- be aware on the systematic and creative use of methods, tools and approaches in performative design