FACULTY OF FINE ARTS AND DESIGN
Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design| Course Name |
Field Studies in Interior Architecture
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Semester
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Theory
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Application/Lab
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Local Credits
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IAED 347
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Fall/Spring
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2
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2
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3
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4
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| Prerequisites |
None
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| Course Language |
English
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| Course Type |
Elective
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| Course Level |
First Cycle
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| Mode of Delivery | - | |||||
| Teaching Methods and Techniques of the Course | DiscussionGroup WorkProblem SolvingCase StudyCritical feedbackField trip / ObservationLecture / Presentation | |||||
| National Occupation Classification | - | |||||
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| Course Objectives | This course aims students to acquire the skill to have a critical look to the existing spaces in various typologies and the ability to criticize one's own works by questioning the design of spaces visited. |
| Learning Outcomes |
The students who succeeded in this course;
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| Course Description | This course ensures that students document the visited interiors in technical trips during the term and prepare a commentary presentation for each visit in the following week. Whereas the documentation includes photos and notes taken in the trip, the presentation involves descriptions, comparisons, and critics. |
| Related Sustainable Development Goals |
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| Transferable Skill Courses |
| Week | Subjects | Related Preparation |
| 1 | Introduction to the Course: Introduction to the course, journal and methods: sketching, hand measurement, surveying, behavioural mapping, photography, sensory notation and collage. | Introduction to the Field Journal: Techniques for rapid sketching and note-taking. Reading Pallasmaa: Moving beyond ocularcentrism in interior analysis. |
| 2 | Site Visit 1: The Multisensory Interior study: Spatial sequence, thresholds, scale, light, sound, temperature, smell and tactile and visual qualities. | Field sketches, sensory notes and spatial-sequence observations. Reading Pallasmaa: The Body in the Centre, Multi-Sensory Experience and peripheral vision. |
| 3 | Production 1: Sensory-Spatial Map Students translate direct experience into a selective analytical composition. | Sensory-spatial map and reflective journal spread. |
| 4 | Site Visit 2: Bodies, Movement and Occupation Observation of how users move, pause, gather, avoid, appropriate and inhabit an interior. | Movement traces, occupation notes and behavioural sketches. Reading Pallasmaa: Images of Action, Bodily Identification and the body as the reference point of space. |
| 5 | Production 2: Behavioural Mapping Students analyse relationships between spatial organisation, furniture and bodily action. | Behavioural map and short analytical commentary. SUBMISSION: Homework 1 |
| 6 | Site Visit 3: Materiality, Touch and Time Investigation of materials, surfaces, joints, ageing, repair, craftsmanship and construction traces. | Material photographs, tactile descriptions, detailed sketches and construction notes. Reading Pallasmaa: Materiality and Time, The Shape of Touch and The Taste of Stone. |
| 7 | Production 3: Material Biography Students document how one material or interior fragment was made, touched, aged and maintained. | Material biography and one annotated detail drawing. |
| 8 | Midterm Week | SUBMISSION: Homework 2 Submission and Review of Interim Field Journals |
| 9 | Site Visit 4: Measuring the Inhabited Interior. Students record scale, threshold, proportion, material and construction. (İzmir University of Economics, D Block) | Hand or digital measuring and surveying interiors for plans and sections, material records, construction and structural observations. |
| 10 | Production 4: Survey and Spatial Reconstruction Translation of site information into a simplified measured plan, section or elevation. | Simplified measured drawing set. SUBMISSION: Homework 3 |
| 11 | Site Visit 5: Shadow, Sound and Atmosphere Study of natural and artificial light, shadow, acoustic character, enclosure and emotional atmosphere . | Light and shadow sketches, acoustic notes, photographs and atmosphere descriptions. Reading Pallasmaa: The Significance of the Shadow, Acoustic Intimacy, Silence, Time and Solitude. |
| 12 | Production 5: Atmospheric Collage Students communicate the temporal and multisensory identity of the site through collage or montage. | Analytical atmospheric collage and explanatory text. |
| 13 | Site Visit 6: Memory, Adaptation and Contemporary Intervention Flexible workplace, interaction and spatial organisation. | Flexibility, layout and interaction map Reading Pallasmaa: Spaces of Memory and Imagination, material continuity and lived time. |
| 14 | Production 6: Comparative Spatial Reading Comparison of the final site with one earlier interior. | Comparative analytical spread: Preparing "exploded" axonometric sketches of a specific interior corner from the Week 12 site. SUBMISSION: Homework 4 |
| 15 | Presentation: Students present how their way of observing interiors changed during the semester. | Presentation: From Observation to Spatial Narrative Students curate and sequence their entries as a coherent account of how interiors are experienced, constructed and occupied. |
| 16 | Semester Review | SUBMISSION: Field Journal Portfolio |
| Course Notes/Textbooks | Juhani Pallasmaa The Eyes of the Skin: Architecture and the Senses. |
| Suggested Readings/Materials |
| Semester Activities | Number | Weigthing |
| Participation |
1
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10
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| Laboratory / Application | ||
| Field Work | ||
| Quizzes / Studio Critiques | ||
| Portfolio |
1
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20
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| Homework / Assignments |
4
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60
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| Presentation / Jury |
1
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10
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| Project | ||
| Seminar / Workshop | ||
| Oral Exams | ||
| Midterm | ||
| Final Exam | ||
| Total |
| Weighting of Semester Activities on the Final Grade |
7
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100
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| Weighting of End-of-Semester Activities on the Final Grade | ||
| Total |
| Semester Activities | Number | Duration (Hours) | Workload |
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| Theoretical Course Hours (Including exam week: 16 x total hours) |
16
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2
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32
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| Laboratory / Application Hours (Including exam week: '.16.' x total hours) |
16
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2
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32
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| Study Hours Out of Class |
14
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2
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28
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| Field Work |
0
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| Quizzes / Studio Critiques |
0
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| Portfolio |
1
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16
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16
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| Homework / Assignments |
4
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2
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8
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| Presentation / Jury |
1
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4
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4
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| Project |
0
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| Seminar / Workshop |
0
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| Oral Exam |
0
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| Midterms |
0
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| Final Exam |
0
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| Total |
120
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Program Competencies/Outcomes |
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To be able to perform, execute and manage the various responsibilities and duties of an interior architecture and environmental design professional |
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To be able to recognize, analyze and integrate within their practice the particular local and regional needs and developments of their profession |
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To be able to communicate and collaborate with other individuals and groups on a national and international level within their profession |
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To be able to develop, integrate and promote independent critical approaches for their professional practice |
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To be able to understand the social and environmental issues and responsibilities of their profession |
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To be able identify, assess and utilize the most up to date research, innovations, trends and technologies |
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To be able to consider the national and international standards and regulations of their field |
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To be able to develop the abilities to communicate and present design ideas within visual, oral and textual formats |
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To be able to adopt a multidisciplinary approach to design on a national and international level |
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To be able to recognize their own strengths, and develop them within an environment |
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To be able to collect data in the areas of interior architecture and environmental design and communicate with colleagues in a foreign language |
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To be able to speak a second foreign at a medium level of fluency efficiently |
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To be able to relate the knowledge accumulated throughout the human history to their field of expertise |
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