Initially structuralized together with Gökhan Ongun (Perkins+Will) via an experimental workshop conducted in May 2014 at METU, the elective course, Parametric Urban Design is currently given by Y. Baver Barut and Olgu Çalışkan at METU Faculty of Architecture. By suggesting an alternative methodological framework for designing an urban project and research within METU Master of Urban Design (MUD) Program, the course aims to establish a multi-disciplinary creative collaboration between architects and planners.
In one-year academic programme, the course is given in two sections under separate codes, UD55 and UD756. It is hold by a series of introductory lectures, seminars and mainly the tutorials enabling the students to operate the algorithmic systems in design. Therefore, while the first section of the course in fall-semester aims to provide students with the basic skills of parametric modelling, the second section aims improving the already established technical competence along with the form exploration studies made during the spring semester.
In this framework, the main output of the first focus-studio course is prototyping the small-scale urban formations (i.e. street and block) to explore the potentiality of the models in form variations. In the second term, the studio focuses on developing a more comprehensive (algorithmic) framework to control the formation of large-scale urban fabrics. While doing that, the project groups are expected to integrate ‘parametric morphology’ and design to suggest a responsive approach to the given context still in an innovative manner.
Studio projects