Exploring the Role of Vernacular Architectural Criteria in Providing Urban Resiliency: A Focus on Graduate Architecture Education

Year 2023, Volume: 8 Issue: 2, 504 - 517, 16.12.2023

Rengin Beceren Öztürk , Arzu Cahantimur

https://doi.org/10.30785/mbud.1334525

Abstract

Architecture is a platform that embraces environmentally friendly design principles and fosters collaboration. Future architecture students and graduates require new skills to address changing environmental conditions and climate changes. Buildings play a crucial role in environmental conditions, urban development, and the well-being of users. Architects have a responsibility to design safe and resilient buildings for sustainable cities. This study discusses the importance of sustainability awareness in architectural education and shares the results of the graduate course "Sustainability and Materials in Architecture." It emphasizes the role of buildings in addressing natural and urban challenges. The course outcomes showed that sustainable development goals can be achieved by drawing insights from vernacular architecture. Through such curricula, young architects can enhance their ability to design buildings and settlements that withstand natural disasters like earthquakes, floods, and landslides.

Keywords

Architectural education, sustainable development, urban resilience, sustainable design, vernacular architecture

Thanks

The article complied with national and international research and publication ethics. Ethics committee permission was not required in the study. We would like to thank Dilara DİNDAR, Hande SAVAŞ, İlayda MAŞAT, Marildo BACELLİ, Melike GÜLAY, M. Gazihan ÇELİK, graduate students of Bursa Uludag University, Department of Architecture, who contributed to the article with their homework studies during the year.

Kentsel Dayanıklılığı Sağlamak için Yöresel Mimarlığı Keşfetmek: Mimarlık Eğitiminde bir Deneme

Abstract

Mimarlık, sürdürülebilir tasarım ilkelerini benimseyen ve iş birliği içinde çalışabilen bir platformdur. Gelecekteki mimarlık öğrencileri ve mezunları, değişen çevresel koşullar, iklim değişiklikleriyle yüzleşerek yeni beceri ve perspektiflere ihtiyaç duyacaktır. Binalar, sadece çevresel koşullar ve kentsel gelişim açısından değil, aynı zamanda kullanıcıların sağlık, refah, güvenlik, konfor ve yaşam kalitesi üzerinde de önemli bir rol oynamaktadır. Bunlarla birlikte dayanımlı kentler yaratmaya yönelik güvenli binalar tasarlamak da mimarların sorumluluğundadır. Bu çalışmada, mimarlık eğitiminde sürdürülebilirlik farkındalığının önemi ele alınmış ve "Mimarlıkta Sürdürülebilirlik ve Malzemeler" adlı lisansüstü dersinin sonuçları paylaşılmış, binaların doğal ve kentsel zorluklarla başa çıkma sürecindeki rolü üzerinde durulmuştur. Ders kapsamında hazırlanan öğrenci çalışmalarından elde edilen sonuçlar karşılaştırılarak dersin beklenen kazanımları değerlendirilmiştir. Sonuç olarak sürdürülebilir kalkınma hedeflerine yönelik mimari katkıların yöresel mimarlık kriterlerinden çıkarımlar yapılarak elde edilebileceği belirlenmiştir. Bu tür müfredatlar sayesinde, genç mimarlar deprem, sel, toprak kayması gibi doğal afetlere dayanıklı yapılar ve yerleşimler tasarlamada yetkinliklerini geliştirebilirler.

Keywords

Mimarlık eğitimi, sürdürülebilir gelişme, kentsel dayanım, sürdürülebilir tasarım, yöresel mimari

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