Cover Image: Inside The Flow, by Nehir Nora, ARCH 301, 2025, Inst. Zeynep Ege Odabaşı. See More.
Design Studios
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A Summer Camp for Bilkenters
In Spring 2025 FA 102 students studied the area in front of the 92nd and 93rd dormitories in the East Campus of Bilkent University for a settlement for a summer camp prepared for high school and young adult students, aged between 15 and 20.
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Mind Prop Hub
Learning is often linked to formal institutions and fixed time frames, but it is, in fact, an essential and ongoing process that begins early in life and continues throughout one’s lifetime for progress. Thus, learning is a prop for mental progress and health, and is a lifelong journey. In 2025 Spring, Arch 202 project was…
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Reinterpreting the Thresholds: Knitting the Urban Threads
For the Spring Term 2024-2025 ARCH 302 focused on a challenging approach on interlacing the different layers of an urban complexity located at the very core of Adana. In particular, the main challenges and the intentions within this semester aims to reimagine and integrate the urban spaces in connection with the Seyhan River and the…
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Adaptation(s)
We are living in a time of unprecedented global change. Borders are being redrawn, social and economic systems are in flux, and environments are being reshaped at an extraordinary pace. These large-scale transformations demand not only solutions but also a fundamental reconsideration of how we design, build, and inhabit the world.
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Prêt-à-porter
In Fall 2024, in the second and final module of the semester, FA101 students explored the transformation of two-dimensional art into three-dimensional compositions. The project required selecting an artwork from the Ankara State Museum of Painting and Sculpture and deriving 3D abstractions through art analysis techniques introduced in the lecture “From Observation to Creation.” The…
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A House to Live and Share: a home for the resident, a rest for the guests
In Fall 2024, ARCH201 studios explored residential architecture, focusing on the house as both a personal and social space. Students were tasked with designing a home tailored to a specific user, incorporating a portion of the residence for short-term rental. The project emphasized flexibility, contextual awareness, and addressing contemporary challenges related to housing and mobility…
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New Residential Landscape
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…
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City Rooms: Sustainable Strategies of Openness in Sirkeci
Openness is a multifaceted concept applied across disciplines like art, philosophy, political sciences, architecture, and urbanism. Despite its diverse interpretations, it consistently conveys ideas of inclusiveness and adaptability. Historically, openness evolved from the flexible systems of Baroque art to modern approaches like incomplete, adaptable structures and participatory design. It can be understood through structural, performative,…
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Generative Industry Zone Redevelopment at Izmır Port
Interlacing Layers of History, Industrial and Commercial Heritage through Sustainable Urbanity: Generative Industry Zone Redevelopment at İzmir Port Area, Alsancak For the Spring Term 2023-2024, ARCH 302 focused on the complex urban layers at the heart of İzmir. The course specifically examined the southern part of İzmir Port in Alsancak, reinterpreting it as a new…
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Many Lives of Architecture
Arch 402 is the final studio of the bachelor’s degree education in Bilkent. Being the graduation studio, it aims to increase the autonomy of the student, and provide some introduction to further specialization areas in architecture. Students are expected to define their own design problem, plan and conduct their own research accordingly. The studio requires…
