UD556 Parametric Urban Design
Parametric Simulation of Byzantium Constantinople
Simulating the historical cities which exposes few physical traces left today has always been an interesting topic for the researches of architectural and urban history. As one of the World cities, which lost their early architectural heritage, Istanbul is a metropolitan city which reveals little clue on the original fabric of its historical core mainly created in the period of Byzantine Empire. Though there are little left after five and a half centuries-transformation of the city, textual records provide the main information source on the structure of Constantinople for the researchers. Based on the already drawn diagrammatic maps, METU PUD Studio has aimed to simulate the Byzantium fabric of the city as a parametric spatial research project. Following a series of morphological analyses on the topographical plans of the various Byzantium cities to decode the implicit building rules of the period , the students basically tended to infill the built fabric of a part of the historical peninsula on the pre-defined urban structure. Though the generative research is not assumed to reveal the exact morphology of Constantinople in precision, it is aimed to reflect the basic characteristics of the fabric mainly in terms of grain and collective composition of the blocks and the streets.
Instructors: Dr. Olgu Çalışkan, Y. Baver Barut, Dr. Pelin Yoncacı Arslan
Students: Ayşegül Erçin, Büşra İnce, Emin Alp Bıyık, Gamze Dinç, Gizem Şahin, Neslişah Kesici, Selen Demirezen, Tunca Beril Başaran
Group project:
SIMULATING THE FABRIC OF BYZANTIUM CONSTANTINOPLE
