COURSE UNIT TITLE

: HISTORICAL CONSTRUCTIONS CONSERVATION PROJECT

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

PROFESSOR DOCTOR ESTER ETI AKYÜZ LEVI

Offered to

Architecture

Course Objective

The aim of the course is to realize the value of historically and culturally important areas in the context of preserving them and transferring them to the future, perceive and discuss their unique features and protection problems with analyses of different scales and qualities; scrutinize solution proposals for the problems.

Learning Outcomes of the Course Unit

1   To be able to describe the basic concepts relating to the historical environment.
2   To be able to analyze the historical environment in terms of different scales and qualities.
3   Showing awareness about conservation problems.
4   To be able to evaluate historical fabric comparatively by considering conservation problems and potentials.
5   To be able to identify and discuss the conservation problems of the historical environment at different scales, and to propose intervention decisions.
6   To be able to express in visual, verbal and written form, analysis, problem determination, intervention, developing proposal etc. for historical environment by using current technology.

Mode of Delivery

Face -to- Face

Prerequisites and Co-requisites

MIM 2006 - SUMMER PRACTICE ON ARCHITECTURAL SURVEYING
MIM 2702 - INTRODUCTION TO HISTORICAL ENVIRONMENT

Recomended Optional Programme Components

None

Course Contents

Week Subject Description
1 Introduction, meeting. Explanation of the purpose, content and teaching method of the course. LECTURE: General information about historical environment and conservation. (Lecture method) HOMEWORK 1- Selection of working area and description.
2 LECTURE: Explanation of the basic concepts of historical environment. Presentations of the students on the working areas they have determined. (Lecture method, question and answer teaching method, case-based method and discussion method) HOMEWORK 2- Analyses
3 LECTURE: Information about the system of values for the historical environment. Presentations of the students on the fields of study they have determined. (Lecture method, question and answer teaching method, case-based method and discussion method)
4 ANALYSES: Presentation of analysis studies concerning selected historical fabric. (Case-based method and discussion method) (Continuation of studies, corrections according to critics)
5 ANALYSES: Presentation of analysis studies concerning selected historical fabric. (Case-based method and discussion method)
6 INTERIM SUBMISSION 1 LECTURE: Investigation of the problems in fabric / street / single building scale in scrutinizing the historical areas. (Lecture method, question and answer teaching method) HOMEWORK 3-Conservation problems of settlement, fabric and street scale.
7 Readings on historical tissue samples in different geographies and having different qualities, comparative evaluation. PROBLEMS of settlement scale, street scale. (Group work and discussion)
8 Readings on historical tissue samples in different geographies and having different qualities, comparative evaluation. PROBLEMS of settlement scale, street scale. (Group work and discussion)
9 Re-presentation of the studies conducted in the 7th and 8th weeks in accordance with the critics. (Group work and discussion)
10 INTERIM SUBMISSION 2 Readings on historical fabric samples in different geographies and having different qualities, comparative evaluation. INTERVENTION DECISIONS for the problems in settlement-fabric, street scale; SUGGESTIONS. (Group work and discussion) HOMEWORK 4- Intervention decisions and suggestions for conservation problems in different scale.
11 INTERVENTION DECISIONS, SUGGESTIONS (Group work and discussion)
12 INTERVENTION DECISIONS, SUGGESTIONS LECTURE: Material deterioration and intervention methods. (Lecture method, question and answer teaching method, discussion method)
13 Studies on material deterioration and intervention methods. (Continuation of studies, corrections according to critics)
14 FINAL SUBMISSION OF THE PROJECT (Description of the working area, analyses, submission of the study concerning problems at different scales, intervention decisions and suggestions).

Recomended or Required Reading

Ahunbay, Z. (1996). Tarihi Çevre Koruma ve Restorasyon, Istanbul: YEM Yayınevi.
Ahunbay, Z. (2019). Kültür Mirasını Koruma Ilke ve Teknikleri, Istanbul: YEM Yayınevi.
Erder, C. (1975). Tarihi Çevre Bilinci, Ankara: ODTÜ Yayınları.
Erder, C. (2020). Tarihi Çevre Algısı, 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

Planned Learning Activities and Teaching Methods

The learning process is carried out with problem solving method, project-based teaching and case study method. In this context, it will be provided to teach the basic concepts as theoretical knowledge, analysis studies prepared at different stages with joint criticism, perception and discussion of conservation interventions, developing intervention decisions through individual and group criticism. The learning process is evaluated through the work performance of the students in the process, interim and final submission.
Apart from that, the lecture method, the question-answer method, individual teaching method, group work and discussion method are used in the course.

Assessment Methods

SORTING NUMBER SHORT CODE LONG CODE FORMULA
1 COM 1 COMMITTEE 1
2 COM 2 COMMITTEE 2
3 COM COMMITTEE
4 FCG FINAL COURSE GRADE COM 1 * 0.30 + COM 2 * 0.30 + COM * 0.40


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

Further Notes About Assessment Methods

None

Assessment Criteria

Interim Submission 1 - %30
Interim Submission 2 - %30
Final Project Submission - %40

Interim Submission 1 - %30 (LO1, LO2, LO3, LO6)
Interim Submission 2 - %30 (LO3, LO4, LO5, LO6)
Final Project Submission - %40 (LO4, LO5, LO6)

Language of Instruction

Turkish

Course Policies and Rules

Within the scope of the course, different dimensions of the protection problem are discussed through examples and suggestions are developed. It is expected that the students prepare and present the studies defined within the Bologna form and SAKAI course content regularly, and pass the process efficiently besides the success of the submitted projects.

Contact Details for the Lecturer(s)

eti.levi@deu.edu.tr, 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, feyzal.ozkaban@deu.edu.tr

Office Hours

Will be announced later.

Work Placement(s)

None

Workload Calculation

Activities Number Time (hours) Total Work Load (hours)
Lectures 12 1 12
Tutorials 0 0 0
Student Presentations 12 2 24
Preparations before/after weekly lectures 12 2 24
Individual homework preperation (CBIKO Talent Gate) 1 7 7
Group homework preperation 2 4 8
Preparing presentations 0 0 0
Final 0 0 0
Midterm 0 0 0
TOTAL WORKLOAD (hours) 75

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.133
LO.2333
LO.33
LO.43333
LO.5333
LO.6