Supervisor: Dr. Olgu Çalışkan
Instructor: Y. Baver Barut
Most of the contemporary cities today tend to integrate landscape into their urban infrastructure by reclaiming them as new systems of public space. Landscape urbanism, in this context, suggests new outlook to control the comprehensive and complex integration processes. With the new interpretation of the concept of urban landscape, landscape urbanism can provide an alternative interpretation of urban design in the wider framework of infrastructure and territory as well. In this regard, landscape urbanism currently requires robust definitions of its own methodologies providing an alternative outlook on both spatial representation and design. From this standpoint, the thesis discusses the emerging approaches in landscape urbanism from a methodological perspective. In this framework, it critically reviews the emerging techniques of parametric modelling applied in the recent design and research projects in landscape urbanism. On this basis, the study suggests a methodical model integrating the main design components of landscape urbanism into the operational domain of parametric design.
A PARAMETRIC DESIGN APPROACH FOR THE MITIGATION OF URBAN HEAT ISLAND EFFECT BASED ON URBAN GEOMETRY
by Begüm Sakar
Supervisor: Dr. Olgu Çalışkan
Characterization of urban morphology by the long term effects of planning influence microclimatic nature of the cities and more specifically that of ‘urban heat island’ (UHI) which may generate many undesirable conditions in urban areas. This necessitates more researches for innovative strategies for the mitigation of UHI effect by design. The research, in this regard, investigates the potentials of parametric modelling for analyzing microclimatic conditions of urban areas in the search for defining optimum design solutions to mitigate UHI effect. In this study, UHI intensity based on urban geometry will be calculated algorithmically via parametric modelling. The alternative form-compositions and configurations will be generated based on the parametric indicators (i.e. roughness, visibility of sky, orientation) in the real context of the development planning system in Turkey. On this analytical and generative basis, a methodical framework will be addressed to develop an evidence-based climate responsive urban design approach.
Ongoing MSc Researches:
PARAMETRIC REPRODUCTION OF THE TRADITIONAL URBAN FABRICS: DECODING URBAN FORM FOR DESIGN
by Ali Emre Karabacak
Supervisor: Dr. Olgu Çalışkan
Using static blueprint ‘master plans’ for the production of urban land in every location without the necessary recognition of the contextual peculiarities is one of the most critical problem within the spatial planning system in Turkey. Different places have different morphologies embedded with a particular set of building rules and typologies evolved in time through the local culture of any specific geography. Therefore, providing a productive continuity between the traditional urban fabrics with the new developments becomes one of the major challenge of the contemporary urbanism. In order to come up with a kind of generative system as opposed to static master-plan approach, in this regard, it is necessary to define the intrinsic codes of the traditional forms and patterns based on explicit parameters. This actually represents the main objective of the research. By the research, the basic framework to decode the morphological parameters of traditional urbanism is suggested to develop a generative basis of parametric modelling for the production of modern urban tissues through a better integration between morphology and design.
ALGORITHMIC DESIGN CONTROL FOR PLOT BASED URBANISM: A MODEL PROPOSAL IN TURKISH SPATIAL PLANNING CONTEXT
by Mert Akay
Supervisor: Dr. Olgu Çalışkan
Aiming for controlling overall urban formation on the scale of of plot, the emerging paradigm of ‘plot-based’ urbanism suggests a fruitful basis to develop a new methodological approach to urban design that would be more responsive to the very condition of complexity in contemporary urban context. Computational modelling tools run by design algorithms, at that point, suggest a very relevant technical basis to apply the new approach in practice . Generating various compositional patterns via certain geometric components and their constitutional parameters, parametric design basically enables designers to gain a serious control over the complex formations. In the context of urban design, that means the possibility of the complex formation of urban fabric on the multiple interaction of plots in the course of time. The current research, therefore, aims to develop a parametric model to integrate computational design to development control in emerging context of plot-based urbanism. Utilised as the already existing codes of Turkish spatial planning system, the actual building rules are taken as the basic parameters of the plot-based generative formation of urban fabric by the algorithmic model proposed.