MİM422

School of Architecture and Design \ Architecture

3

4

Elective

Turkish

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architecture

The course is structured around the use of nature-informed design in architecture, with a particular focus on the efficient design of building envelopes.

It aims to provide students with an experiential understanding of nature-informed design, which is widely used and researched in contemporary architectural practice, through a design exercise. Additionally, this course seeks to first understand the vast database that nature offers and then utilize it in their own designs to solve structural problems, create inspiring designs, and update/improve existing approaches.

1. Understanding nature-informed design and its potential applications in architecture.
2. Learning how to transfer knowledge from different disciplines into architecture.
3. Gaining proficiency in computer-aided design programs used for nature-informed design.

Week 1: Introduction to the course – objectives, scope, course information, and references.
Week 2: Presentations and conceptual discussions – Biomimetic Design.
Week 3: Biological model presentation – geographical, meteorological, and physical conditions of selected organisms (organisms/processes/systems, etc.), movement modes, adaptive behaviors, and forms.
Week 4: Biological model presentation.
Week 5: Presentations and discussions on the relationship between climate, adaptation, and morphology.
Week 6: Sketch study – abstraction.
Week 7: Sketch study – section.
Week 8: Midterm presentations.
Week 9: Parameterization and modeling.
Week 10: Parameterization and modeling.
Week 11: Parameterization and modeling.
Week 12: Final presentations.

• Assignments 20 %
• Final Project 30 %
• Participation and Midterm Presentations 50 %