ARCH 301 is a thematic design studio focused on exploring the core principles of architectural design through the creation of a medium-small scale urban hybrid housing complex. The course challenges students to integrate residential units with shared facilities and communal functions, encouraging innovative approaches to collective living. It promotes the exploration of typologies like social housing, cohousing, and experimental communal living, emphasizing the balance between private and public spheres.
Students engage with concepts such as flexibility, polyvalence, and the expansion of thresholds between personal and shared spaces. The studio fosters a critical inquiry into domestic interiors, communal activities, and the role of shared services like kitchens, dining areas, co-working spaces, and childcare facilities. This integrated approach aims to develop socially sustainable urban communities.
ARCH 301 emphasizes functional complexity, spatial variety, and aesthetic coherence while requiring a continuous shift in scale and simultaneous control of architectural parameters. Students address environmental sustainability, structural design, and architectural acoustics, applying concepts from courses like ARCH 331 and IAED 341. Ultimately, the studio invites students to question conventional housing configurations, fostering designs that reflect contemporary social, technological, and ecological needs, while reimagining the future of urban domestic habitats.
Studio Team:
-Selen Özge Duran,
-Burak Çelik,
-Giorgio Gasco (studio coordinator),
-Begüm Peker,
-Bilgesu Sever (studio assistant)
