Teaching Architectural Design Studio Remotely: The Introduction to Architectural Design Course at METU

Introduction to Roof garden Strategy in Architectural Design and City

The roof garden has great functioning of smoothing the shortage of land resource in the city and making use of the land resource diversity and efficiently. The modern era, following the fast development of economic and society, people have a high claim to green roof or roof garden. It is an efficient and reasonable way to exploit the open space the roof of the building. From the classic roof ...

Design Studio 2.0: Augmenting Reflective Architectural Design Learning

Web 2.0 is beyond a jargon describing technological transformation: it refers to new strategies, tools and techniques that encourage and augment informed, creative and social inter(actions). When considered in an educational context, Web 2.0 provides various opportunities for enhanced integration and for improving the learning processes in information-rich collaborative disciplines such as urba...

From architectural requirements to architectural design

Introduction to innovation in Architectural Characteristics of urban building from Bionic Design Approach

Biology has been a brilliant teacher and a precious textbook to man-made construction for thousands of years, because it allows one to learn and be inspired by nature’s remarkable and efficient structural systems. Concepts unfortunately have this in common that in general use often specifies incorrectly some phenomena. There was a turning point in each period of time which human has discovered ...

Discussing Sketchup Software in the Application of Architectural Design Teaching

In order to help the students of architecture out of the errors of studying architectural design, this paper briefly introduces the application features of the Sketchup software. They should truly understand the origin of architectural design and master application skills of Sketchup software. Based on the description of the current lack of architecture education and the feature of Sketchup sof...