Landscape Design I: The Waiting Room (21332)

Landscape Design I (CRN: 21332) ‘The Waiting Room” was conducted by Assoc. Prof. Dr. F. Ayçim Türer Başkaya @aycimbaskaya and was assisted by Res. Asst. Nergis Aşar @nergisasar in 2022-2023 Spring Semester.
The studio was run in two modules. The first module examined the relationship between action and space occupation within the limits of an individual’s movements. The second and main module focused on stops in the urban flow and discuss time-dependent ways of engaging with urban open spaces in forced waiting situations.

Studio Report / Landscape Design I -21332

Landscape Design I: Multifunctional Surfaces & II. Therapeutic Landscapes: Empathizing with Vulnerable Groups (21334)

LANDSCAPE DESIGN I [CRN : 21334] I. Multifunctional Surfaces & II. Therapeutic Landscapes: Empathizing with Vulnerable Groups was led by Associate Prof. Dr. Melih Bozkurt @mel_bozkurt and was assisted by Başak Akarsu @basakakarsu in 2022-2023 Spring Semester. ’22-23 Spring Semester Landscape Design I Studio focused on fundamental elements of landscape design at the scale of public space in the urban context. The first module of the studio “Multifunctional Surfaces” focused on surface strategies for Moda Square. Students was expected to develop surface strategies in an urban square and produce a multifunctional design with transformable qualities and offer various solutions for different kinds of users. The second module of the studio Therapeutic Landscapes: Empathizing with Vulnerable Groups” focused on landscape design strategies for health and well being. This module aimed to develop empathy skills with different vulnerable groups by developing therapeutic landscape designs. Students was expected to cooperate with healing and supportive institutions that can be in contact with vulnerable groups, and to develop a project for health, well-being and restorative purposes by combining their empathy and landscape design skills.

Studio Report / Landscape Design I -21334

Landscape Design I: Multifunctional Surfaces & II. Therapeutic Landscapes: Empathizing with Vulnerable Groups (24402)

LANDSCAPE DESIGN I [CRN : 24402] I. Multifunctional Surfaces & II. Therapeutic Landscapes: Empathizing with Vulnerable Groups was led by Associate Prof. Dr. Ebru Erbaş Gürler @landscape_eeg and was assisted by Fatma Sultan Bozkurt @fatmasultanny in 2022-2023 Spring Semester. ’22-23 Spring Semester Landscape Design I Studio focused on fundamental elements of landscape design at the scale of public space in the urban context. The first module of the studio “Multifunctional Surfaces” focused on surface strategies for Moda Square. Students was expected to develop surface strategies in an urban square and produce a multifunctional design with transformable qualities and offer various solutions for different kinds of users. The second module of the studio “Therapeutic Landscapes: Empathizing with Vulnerable Groups” focused on landscape design strategies for health and well being. This module aimed to develop empathy skills with different vulnerable groups by developing therapeutic landscape designs. Students was expected to cooperate with healing and supportive institutions that can be in contact with vulnerable groups, and to develop a project for health, well-being and restorative purposes by combining their empathy and landscape design skills.

Studio Report / Landscape Design I- 24402

Landscape Design II (21342): Climate Change, Water & Social Justice

Landscape Design III (CRN: 21347) ‘Climatescape’ was led by Prof. Hayriye Eşbah Tunçay (PhD) @hetpeyzaj and was assisted by Res. Asst. Hüseyin Ögçe (MSc) @huseyinogce in 2022-2023 Spring Semester.
This studio dealt with the inevitable impacts of climate change on cultural landscapes. The urban heat island effects, water scarcity, and biodiversity loss are the ENVIRONMENTAL IMPLICATIONS of climate change. Migration, food security, social segregation, and health issues are some of the SOCIAL OUTCOMES of this ongoing process. Economic crises, loss of jobs, loss of production, challenges to supply chains, and reduction of GDP are some of the ECONOMIC IMPACTS stemming from the global warming phenomenon. Current science and practice show that the existential crises posed by climate change will continue in the future if human beings and countries fall short of taking effective actions. Climatescape is an integrated approach, which comprehends the multi-faceted issues of climate change in generating landscape design solutions for tackling climate change locally and globally. Thus, this studio focused on the world’s biggest issue from all angles with a special emphasis on cultural landscape protection. The World Heritage Site- the Land Walls of the Historic Peninsula and its adjacent neighborhoods in Fatih, Istanbul- is the study area where the students explored the changing landscape dynamics. It involves two parts. 1- Analyses, mapping, and concept development, 2- Design development. The studio asked the following questions: How does the urban landscape change along the historic walls in Fatih, Istanbul? How does climate change affect the communities and the cultural heritage? How can we map different impacts of climate change on the cultural landscapes? How can we promote public awareness regarding cultural heritage and climate change? and last but not least, How can landscape architects promote resiliency in a cultural heritage site?

Studio Report / Landscape Design III -21347

Landscape Design II (21345) – III Urban Jungle (21350) A Narrative of Transformation: LARGE [PARKS]

LANDSCAPE DESIGN II (CRN: 21345) and LANDSCAPE DESIGN III (CRN:21350) ‘A Narrative of Transformation: LARGE [PARKS]’ was led by Associate Prof. Dr. Meltem Erdem Kaya @meltem_erdem_kaya and was assisted by Res. Asst. Gizem Aluçlu @gizemaluclu in 2022-2023 Spring Semester. ’22-23 Spring Semester Landscape Design II & III Studios focused on one of the critical components of the urban system; urban parks. Through the history, urban parks had always been the departure point of discussions in the discipline of Landscape Architecture as a manifest, as a critique, and as a discourse. Today the idea of urban park was revisited as a disciplinary imperative to respond emerging conditions of İstanbul Metropolitan City which hosts stereotypical parks shaped with the same stylistic endeavor, lack of design intelligence. The studio Large [Parks] aimed to investigate the current design attitude of urban parks by conducting rigorous spatial inventories and questions how design intelligence can be developed over a complex set of issues such as fragmentation, lack of access, low spatial quality, etc. Through the design of a park, students explored different design scenarios at multiple scales (site-neighborhood-district), strategic organization of space, form, functions, and materials to create new relations among the site, and to discover the potential of the design to generate public value.

Studio Report – Landscape Design II – III (21345-24402)

Landscape Design II (21343) – III (21350) Landscape of Impact

PEM 311E LANDSCAPE DESIGN II [CRN : 21343] and LANDSCAPE DESIGN III [CRN : 21348] “Landscape of Impact” was led by Enise Burcu DERİNBOĞAZ @eniseburcu and Zeynep HAGUR SORGUÇ @zhagur , and was assisted Res. Asst. Elif SERDAR YAKUT @elifserdaryakut in in 2022-2023 Spring Semester. 22’ – 23’ Spring Semester LD II & LD III studios focused on open data investigations, mapping, and social impact on the landscape. For that matter, the studio was structured on 3 interconnected modules. Each module had a specific outcome that was supported by various seminars varying from data specialists to NGOs. The studio named Landscape of Impact was an act of exploration of open data of geospatial, social, and environmental values of urban through interactions and impacts on past to tomorrow. Along with this investigation process, the main objective was to obtain well-adapted and unique design strategies by revealing the landscape with its embedded data. Some of the key themes of this studio can be listed as; Geospatial data, impact mapping, open source data, social impact, carbon modeling, contemporary landscape thinking, citizen science, and contemporary cartography. The final outcome; is the ability to create maps with open-source data using HOT(humanitarian open street map team), GIS(Qgis), sections, and collages which are fuelled with social, environmental, and geospatial open-source data.”

Studio Report / Landscape Design II – III (21343-21348)

Landscape Design IV: Designing Public Open Space to Support Seismic Resilience

LANDSCAPE DESIGN IV (CRN 21354) “Designing Public Open Space to Support Seismic Resilience” was moderated by Prof. (PhD) Gülşen Aytaç @gulsenaytacc and Res. Assist. Lâl Dalay @l.dalay in 2022-2023 Spring Semester. Following major earthquakes, like the recent example of Kahramanmaraş, public open spaces transform into spaces that respond to short-term disaster recovery, middle and longer term recovery needs. However, few open spaces are currently designed to support these critical uses. In this context, earthquake parks can be defined as public open spaces that meet the needs of nutrition, shelter and safety for people to sustain their daily needs after a disaster. Open spaces are critically needed for safety and shelter in the post-disaster environment. Post-disaster needs for evacuation, medical assistance, communication, shelter and food can be met in such spaces with the help of networks and social connections through established urban open spaces. It is also known that interaction with vegetation such as city parks and gardens in disaster situations helps the resilience and resistance of those who are affected, not only through psychological rehabilitation but also by evoking memories. In this context, under the theme “Designing Public Open Space to Support Seismic Resilience “, Landscape Design Studio IV invited participants to re-examine the urban landscape design of Istanbul with a perspective that supports seismic resilience. Through this studio, fourth year students, landscape architects of the future studied ways to plan and design open spaces for a post-disaster environment. Within the scope of the studio, students was expected to plan and design systems at various scales and produce solutions for the given workspace in Istanbul.

Studio Report / Landscape-Design IV

Graduation Project JURY A / Landwall Chronicles: Landscape Design of Istanbul Landwall District

The jury of Graduation Project Jury A includes Prof. Dr. Hayriye Eşbah Tunçay @hetpeyzaj and Assist. Prof. Dr. Ayşegül Akçay Kavakoğlu @akcaysegul as the core jury members,
Assoc. Prof. Dr. Derya Güleç Özer, Res. Assist Dr. İmge Akçakaya Waite and Dr. Dürrin Süer as guest jury members, Res. Assist. Lâl Dalay @l.dalay and Res. Assist. Elif Ağaoğlu Yıldırım @elifagaoglu as research assistants

Graduation Project JURY B / Landwall Chronicles: Landscape Design of Istanbul Landwall District

Studio Report / Graduation Project Jury B