COURSE SYLLABUS

WEEKS

SUBJECTS

1st  week

Introduction

2nd week

Interior architecture as an interdisciplinary profession:  Factors affecting interior architecture and design

Different user groups of urban space

Group Work 1: Factors affecting the design of a cultural and conventional center, a shopping center or a boutique hotel.

3rd week

Human behavior, experience and needs in interior architecture and  design

The factors shaping human behavior

Assignment of  individual research

Group Work 2: Needs of a middle-aged man

4th week

Social and cultural factors and values in interior architecture and design

Stocks of physical and social capital

Group Work 3:Scenario for a cinema association with its goals, activities and spatial organization

5th week

Guidelines for group work research and reporting

Field work, research methods and reporting techniques

Assignment of  final research: a field study (survey) in Mustafa Kemal Neighborhood about social life, housing and its environment

6th week

Mid-term Exam

The effects of human behavior, and social and cultural factors in residential environment and its interior architecture

7th week

The effects of human behavior, and social and cultural factors in educational environment and its interior architecture

Group Work 4:Redesign the existing campus of Cankaya University with respect to social, cultural and educational needs of students, lecturers and other labors

8th week

The effects of human behavior, and social and cultural factors in commercial environment and its interior architecture

Individual research presentations

9th week

The effects of human behavior, and social and cultural factors in cultural and entertainment environment and its interior architecture

Individual research presentations

10th week 

The effects of human behavior, and social and cultural factors in health environment and its interior architecture

Individual research presentations

11th week

The effects of human behavior, and social and cultural factors in recreational environment and its interior architecture

12th week

Introduction to Swot Analysis Technique

Group Work 5: Analysing the city of Ankara

13th week

Discussion about field work (survey)

Assessment of preliminary findings

14th week

Review of the course and discussion about learning outcomes