COURSE UNIT TITLE

: SUSTAINABLE ARCHITECTURE

DEGREE PROGRAMMES

Description of Individual Course Units

Course Unit Code Course Unit Title Type Of Course D U L ECTS
ELECTIVE

Offered By

Architecture

Level of Course Unit

First Cycle Programmes (Bachelor's Degree)

Course Coordinator

ASSOCIATE PROFESSOR EBRU GÜLLER

Offered to

Architecture

Course Objective

The objectives of this course are to consider the effects of sustainable principles in architectural design process and to associate the knowledge about the architectural sustainability with some building types such as educational buildings and hospital buildings.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to define the concept of sustainability, sustainable architecture and sustainable design principles
2   Ability to evaluate the concept of sustainability from urban scale to building scale through different keywords and exemplify sustainable architectural design principles over different building types such as education and healthcare
3   Learning about national / international laws, regulations and certification systems and learning responsibilities in this area

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; presentation of methodology of this course; announcing of the seminar subjects
2 Awareness study on environmental perception and environmental problems
3 Concept of sustainability Architecture for a sustainable environment Giving a preliminary homework for the next lesson
4 Sustainable architecture, sustainable design criteria
5 EKB expertise and BEPTR (Guest Presentation)
6 National laws, regulations and certification systems (Group presentation) International laws, regulations and certification systems (Group presentation)
7 Sustainable design criteria at education buildings
8 Sustainable design criteria at healthcare buildings
9 Midterm exam or file delivery Question-answer for students' presentation preparations
10 Students' presentations
11 Students' presentations
12 Students' presentations
13 Students' presentations Delivering presentations
14 Evaluating the term, detailing the final homework

Recomended or Required Reading

REFERENCES: Articles, thesis and books about sustainable architecture, educational buildings, hospitals, echological design, design for all and universal design.

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

Lectures supported with digital presentation
Group work
Presentation and discussion of research subjects by student groups
Evaluation and discussion through keywords


Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 MTE MIDTERM EXAM
2 RAS RESEARCH ASSIGNMENT
3 MTEG MIDTERM GRADE MTE * 0.40 + RAS * 0.60
4 FINS FINAL EXAM
5 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE MTEG * 0.50 + FINS * 0.50
6 RST RESIT
7 FCGR FINAL COURSE GRADE (RESIT) MTEG * 0.50 + RST * 0.50


*** Resit Exam is Not Administered in Institutions Where Resit is not Applicable.

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

Midterm Exam or File Delivery (%20)+Research Presentation (%30)+Final Exam or Delivery (%50)+Resit of Final exam

Assessment Criteria

Mid-term Exam or File Delivery: PO1, PO3.
Presentation: PO2, PO3
Final Exam or Delivery: PO1, PO2, PO3

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

1. Presentations of seminar shoud be supported with slides.
2. During the presentations the main keywords about the subject should be noted.
3. Attendence to the course is compulsory.
4. Late submissions will be subject to a different evaluation.
5. All kinds of plagiarism will result in a disciplinary action.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

ebru.guller@deu.edu.tr
+90 232 3018452

Office Hours

Will be announced due to the course program

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 8 2 16
Tutorials 6 2 12
Preparation for Final Exam 1 8 8
Preparation for Mid-term Exam 1 8 8
Preparing Presentations 1 16 16
Preparation before/after weekly lectures 13 1 13
Quiz, etc. 0
Final 1 2 2
Mid-term 1 2 2
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 77

Contribution of Learning Outcomes to Programme Outcomes

PO/LOPO.1PO.2PO.3PO.4PO.5PO.6PO.7PO.8PO.9PO.10PO.11PO.12PO.13PO.14PO.15
LO.155
LO.255
LO.35555

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