CRP355 COLLECTIVE HOUSING: PLANNING AND DESIGN
| Course Code: | 1210355 |
| METU Credit (Theoretical-Laboratory hours/week): | 3 (1.00 - 4.00) |
| ECTS Credit: | 5.0 |
| Department: | City and Regional Planning |
| Language of Instruction: | English |
| Level of Study: | Undergraduate |
| Course Coordinator: | Prof.Dr. OLGU ÇALIŞKAN |
| Offered Semester: | Fall Semesters. |
Course Objectives
The course is for third and fourth year undergraduate students in City and Regional Planning (‘urban design’ module) aand those from the Department of Architecture. The course, in this context, aims to provide the planning students with the basic knowledge on architectural typologies (especially for a better understanding of designing urban form) while providing the architectural students with the fundamental principles of residential planning and design. The course invites students reconsider the existing trends in ecological perspectives to the quality standards of life in the residential areas within a renewed comprehension of the idea of ‘neighborhood’. In this regard, the course also aims to support students to specialize on the design dimension of urbanism from a multi-disciplinary perspective.
Course Content
The course addresses the complexities of designing the living environments of cities and develops an understanding on collective housing along with the corresponding programs of social facilities and activity patterns. While providing students with the basic knowledge on architectural typologies of housing, the course aims to handle the problem of housing as a practice of spatial planning and design in urban context. As an experimental workshop, the course searches for a constructive relationship between architecture and urban design by generating rich, diverse and coherent housing areas as alternative to the current discourse and practice of mass housing.
Course Learning Outcomes
At the end of the course, the student is expected to acquire the;
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ability to relate different scale-levels (i.e. building, site, district) within a giving urban context
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the skill of representation and discussion of the different design aspects of urbanism in a single framework
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typological thinking based on the knowledge of precedents in designing the complexity of collective urban form
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acquaintance with the fundamental knowledge of formulating the main problematics of housing planning and design, and proposing a designerly perspective to the given problem.
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skill of creating a shared language between the different disciplines (of architecture and planning) to experience the notion of urbanism on a productive basis.
Program Outcomes Matrix
| Level of Contribution | |||||
| # | Program Outcomes | 0 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
| 1 | Knowledge and internalization of the concepts of social responsibility and public interest | ✔ | |||
| 2 | Giving priority to these concepts in planning and practice | ✔ | |||
| 3 | Commitment to professional ethics and values | ✔ | |||
| 4 | Capacity to independently carry out individual tasks and studies | ✔ | |||
| 5 | Ability to work as a responsible team member as well as a leader in team works | ✔ | |||
| 6 | Professional competency to carry out plans and projects with the utmost quality | ✔ | |||
| 7 | In the fields of planning and design: * Knowledge of planning theories * Ability to integrate theory and practice * Competency in problem definition, critical approach, and usage of analysis methods and techniques * Skills of inter-disciplinary and multi-dimensional thinking, analysis, synthesis, implementation, and development of alternative plans and design solutions | ✔ | |||
| 8 | In both Turkish and English: * Knowledge of professional terminology * Ability to carry out and present original studies * Skills of expressing oneself | ✔ | |||
| 9 | Lifelong learning skills and attributes | ✔ | |||
| 10 | Competency in process design and management | ✔ | |||
0: No Contribution 1: Little Contribution 2: Partial Contribution 3: Full Contribution