COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HISTORICAL CONSTRUCTIONS CONSERVATION PROJECT

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
MIM 3702 HISTORICAL CONSTRUCTIONS CONSERVATION PROJECT COMPULSORY 2 2 0 4

Offered By

Architecture

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

PROFESSOR ESTER ETI AKYÜZ LEVI

Offered to

Architecture

Course Objective

This course aims students to realize the values of historical and cultural sites, understand and discuss original characteristics and conservation problems of that sites; and questionize the conservation project proposals.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   Describing concepts of historical site, cultural site and cultural heritage,
2   Recognizing notion on different dimensions of cultural heritage,
3   Showing awareness of conservation problems,
4   Criticizing subjective characteristics of cultural heritage,
5   Discussing different intervention approaches in conservation,
6   Proposing intervention decisions prior to conservation problems,
7   Expressing intervention decisions by visual, written and oral representation.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

None

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction to the course; learning and teaching methods. Announcement of the program. General information on historical sites and conservation.
2 Introduction of the concepts of historical site, cultural site and cultural heritage.
3 Values in conservation, subjective characteristics of cultural heritage.
4 Intervention approaches prior to conservation, discussion of different intervention decisions throughout examples.
5 Student Presentations. Assessment 10%
6 Practise(s) addressing different dimensions of conservation problems.
7 Practise(s) addressing different dimensions of conservation problems Studies in this context.
8 Practise(s) on different dimensions of conservation problems Discussion and criticism of the studies.
9 Practise(s) on different dimensions of conservation problems Discussion and criticism of the studies.
10 Preliminary Jury Assessment 10%
11 Practise(s) on different dimensions of conservation problems Discussion and criticism of the studies.
12 Practise(s) on different dimensions of conservation problems Discussion and criticism of the studies.
13 Discussion and criticism of the studies
14 Submission of the projects Assessment 75%+ Assessment 5% (5% of the participation in class is added on to the jury assessments.)

Recomended or Required Reading

Textbook(s): None.
Supplementary Book(s):
- Ahunbay, Z. (1996). Tarihi Çevre Koruma ve Restorasyon, Istanbul: YEM Yayınevi.
- Fielden, B. (1994). Conservation of Historic Buildings. Oxford: Butterworth-Heinemann.
- Jokiletho, J. (2002). History of Architectural Conservation. Oxford: Butterwoth-Heinemann.
- Kuban, D. (2000). Tarihi Çevre Korumanın Mimarlık Boyutu, Istanbul: YEM Yayınevi.
- Madran,E. (2009). Taşınmaz Kültür Varlıklarının Korunması. Ankara: TMMOB Mimarlar Odası yayınları.
- Madran, E. & Özgönül, N. (2005). Kültürel ve Doğal Değerlerin Korunması. Ankara: TMMOB Mimarlar Odası yayınları.
- Özaslan, N. & Özkut, D. (2010). Mimari Korumada Güncel Konular. Eskişehir: Anadolu Üniversitesi yayınları.
References: None.
Materials: They will be announced by the instructors.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The learning process is based on problem based learning. In this frame, the concepts are introduced by theoretical transfers. Understanding and discussion of the conservation problems by joint criticisms, and development of intervention decisions throughout individual and group criticisms are provided. The performance of the students are observed and recorded via the executions in the studio, in the mid-term and in the final juries.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MJ MIDTERM JURY
2 ASG ASSIGNMENT
3 PAR PARTICIPATION
4 JRY JURY
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MJ * 0.10 + ASG * 0.10 +PAR * 0.05 +JRY * 0.75

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Mid-term exam % 10 (LO1, LO2, LO3)
Homework/Presentations % 10 (LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4)
Final Project %75 (LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4, LO5)
Active participation to the lecture % 5 (LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4, LO5)

Assessment Criteria

Mid-term exam % 10 (LO1, LO2, LO3)
Homework/Presentations % 10 (LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4)
Final Project % 75 (LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4, LO5)
Active participation to the lecture % 5 (LO1, LO2, LO3, LO4, LO5)

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

* One or more different case studies on different dimensions of conservation problems within the scope of the course are addressed. Decisions are proposed prior to conservation problems. In this context, small-scale documentation work with the use of the knowledge gathered by measured survey internship and works on analysis may be done.
* Open-jury may be done for the final submission of the projects.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

eti.levi@deu.edu.tr, eti.akyuz@gmail.com, mine.tanac@deu.edu.tr, mujgan.bahtiyar@deu.edu.tr, humeyra.akkurt@deu.edu.tr, emel.kayin@deu.edu.tr, nezihat.koskluk@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

To be announced.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Technical trips 0 0 0
Student Presentations 1 4 4
Lectures 12 2 24
Tutorials 12 2 24
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 10 2 20
Preparation for midterm exam 1 5 5
Preparation for final exam 1 10 10
Preparing Presentations (Analysis and Presentations) 1 2 2
Final (Final Jury) 1 8 8
Midterm (Preliminary Jury) 1 4 4
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 101

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15PO.16PO.17
LO.155
LO.2555
LO.35
LO.455555
LO.5555
LO.6555
LO.7555

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