This paper aims to develop deployable doubly ruled hyperboloid surfaces that can be used in architectural applications. First, the study systematically analyzes the geometric principles of hyperboloids generated by the ruled surface generation method and examines the morphology to generate different types of hyperboloids. Then, a method is introduced to construct deployable doubly ruled hyperboloid surfaces. The study demonstrates that deployment behavior of the hyperboloid is directly related to joint types used at the intersection points of the bars. Based on kinematic analysis, the study establishes that deployable hyperboloids with a single degree of freedom can be constructed only by revolute and spherical joints. Finally, various hyperboloids having different number of intersections are constructed according to the proposed joint types and their deployment capabilities are discussed.

The experience that students gain from internship programs is considered to be one of the most critical complements to higher education. Using data gathered through surveys with over 100 students from architectural education institutions in Turkey and focus group discussions with interns, key positive aspects, challenges, and shortcomings of architectural internships were identified. Results revealed that while students feel that both hard and soft skills needed in the workplace could—to some extent—be improved through internship programs, poor learning opportunities provided by employers, inability of architectural education to keep up with the rapidly evolving technology, and the misuse of interns remain as key problem areas. Therefore, the results imply a need for greater collaboration between university and industry and more empirical research into the effectiveness of different internship program structures.

Rural architecture and settlements occupy an important place in conservation discipline. In this study, the architectural pattern of Karahayıt, Gaziler, and Kabaağaç—the three villages affiliated to Zeytinova, Bayındır, İzmir—is examined and evaluated, and proposals regarding the future of the villages are made. The villages are documented through field surveys and literature reviews and are evaluated in a comparative study. This study is primarily based on the field surveys that determined in-situ conditions about villages. Villages are settlements that are isolated from the center and have limited transportation possibilities. Moreover, many people migrated to cities from the villages due to limitations of education and employment, resulting in the dilapidation of many of the houses as no one live in them. Settlement has taken form in agreement with the topography; the houses have inclined towards the valley and the scenery. Olive cultivation and cattle breeding are the main sources of living. The mosque and laundry buildings are among the important buildings. It is seen that various interventions were made in the houses during the usage. The physical sustainability of the houses must be ensured in integration with sustainable social, economic, and living conditions. The following measures seem appropriate: the houses should be adapted for current living conditions; a technical contribution should be made during the repair work; and the houses should be expropriated and utilized for touristic functions. The maintenance of villages should be evaluated in the context of rural development. Furthermore, production and marketing possibilities should be developed, and welfare activities should be increased. Finally, ecotourism as a means in rural development should be considered.

The education of architecture is constantly questioned and how it should be done is evaluated. These studies and evaluations are viewed as important for keeping the discussions up to date and sharing them. While the studies expand with the questions and the concepts renewed through them, they also raise many new questions. The discussion along the axis of “critical thinking” extends from the problem of the mentioned peripheral architectural education, the studio culture and the first year design education. A case study using hermeneutics and supported by interviews with instructors, students, and graduates has been conducted. At the end of the study, views on the studio approach were combined with those on acquiring critical thinking. The results emphasized that the studio environment needs new/different narrative to achieve critical thinking, and it is important that this environment exists for design studios particularly in the first year. The importance of questioning, critical thinking, creative thinking, and awareness of everyday life conditions was emphasized.

In studies on traditional or vernacular houses, the tradition of generalization has been replaced by subjective studies where each example is analyzed in its own context during the last quarter of the century. Within this framework, the purpose of the present article is to analyze the vernacular architecture in Ayvacık Kıran Section villages through samples and to investigate the origins of the current house typology. For this purpose, first, the parameters that may affect the architectural pattern in the region were analyzed; then, two houses representative of the architectural culture in the region were selected among 50 samples studied between 2014 and 2016, and architectural characteristics of these houses were determined. In conclusion, origins of this house type were determined.

As architectural design studios are the places where designing is learnt through experimenting designs, it forms the basic framework of the education of architecture. The early period of design studios, different from all other studios, are the courses in which the students experience and encounter designing for the first time; thus, the design-related skills and fundamental inclinations that are acquired in these studios influence the future designing actions of the students. In today’s global designing environment wherein the boundaries between disciplines and boundaries are increasingly blurring, the design tools and approaches of different disciplines are frequently being used to develop opinions in research in order to develop the design process in the studios. In this regard, in the early period architecture design studios, before the architectural design stage, the studio education programs ensuring awareness of perception through experiencing the presently structured space are stipulated to increase the quality of students’ spatial productions. Including the different experience studios, they experience the process of the design and they learn how to critically look at their environments, and they include the social components of architecture into their educations with regard to the participant architecture. In addition to the above stated acquisitions, the applications that are appended to the educational programs from similar other disciplines, such as installation, shall greatly contribute to students’ production of collective information under headings such as the identity of space, becoming a part of a place, spatial approaches of different disciplines, and provisions of design elements within a space.

With the contribution of developing technological and scientific studies, as 3D laser scanning technologies has been providing the opportunity to obtain fast and precise data, they have also become preferable in the documentation of old structures in Turkey. As the historic structures to be protected or the cultural and natural heritage sites included in the architectural discipline vary in terms of size and architectural design, a variety of details with different scales is required for the documentation and survey studies to be conducted. During survey processes, using advanced documentation techniques and technologies facilitates the effective and efficient use of resources. Laser scanning technologies were used during the documentation of Sarnıçlı Han, located next to Grand Bazaar—the most valuable spot in Istanbul—and the cistern dating from the Byzantine Period in its yard, after which it was named. In the scope of this paper, the location and the architectural features of Sarnıçlı Han and its cistern, the contribution of terrestrial laser scanning technologies to the surveying process, the stages of survey, the problems encountered during documentation, and the process of vectorial drawing realized in a digital environment will be discussed.

Urban growth management ensures healthy development in urban areas that transform quickly. Urban growth management does not have any marketing goals; the goal is to establish the necessary relation among planning, space, and users. The most common objective of urban growth management is a sustainable urban future to ensure a balance. Planning and management problems are solved by urban growth management system. An urban growth management system includes an urban growth management department and spatial data infrastructure of the urban growth management and portal software.

Urban open spaces and green areas, particularly urban parks, are the most critical areas for meeting people’s physical and psychological needs, as well as improving the users’ quality of life in urban areas by creating places for people to escape from the artificially built environment. The user density is defined by the activity opportunities that are served by urban parks and the location and accessibility of the parks. Moreover, these factors are also effective for defining the level of user satisfaction. Within the scope of the present study Kuğulu Park, which caters to different social groups and is well known to urban inhabitants, is studied. This park is an important example for the city, considering it is used densely yearlong despite limited activity opportunities owing to its limited area. While querying user satisfaction, the constraints and user expectations are introduced in this study. The findings indicate that user satisfaction is more related to the quality and density of green areas, the quality of the provided services, and the cleanness and maintenance level of the park in comparison to the size of the park and activities provided. Thus, the results support the importance of small, high-quality, functional green urban spaces at remote locations compared to easy-to-access, large-scale leisure areas downtown.

In Turkey, most of the historic cities are multilayered due to continuous settlements. In any case, urban archaeological potentials of cities could not be spatially evaluated and handle-handled into planning processes. Therefore, the present paper focuses on the critical role of diachronic maps in planning process by referring a completed research project in Tarsus historic city center, which aims to develop a method to handle-handled urban archaeological resources into the planning process. In this defined context, the concept of urban archaeology and urban archaeology in Turkey has been only briefly evaluated. Then, the methods of collecting, analyzing, and evaluating archaeological and historical data for preparing diachronic maps are presented. The main focus of the paper is the evaluation of Tarsus’s spatial structure in the Roman Period, when the city reached its largest settlement area, according to historical geography and archaeological findings. Mainly, the paper expresses possibilities presented through diachronic documents to plan multilayered cities similar to Tarsus. Spatial evaluation of Tarsus’s boundaries and main activities in Roman Period entails planning of contemporary Tarsus historic city center with respect to archaeological layers. In fact, diachronic maps evaluate urban archaeological potential within the spatial context of planning. Consequently, completed studies in Tarsus’s historic city center have the potential to influence a discussion on similar multilayered cities.

The subject of this study is the conceptual foundation of the design abilities acquired and developed during undergraduate education. The aim is to examine and understand the maturation and structure of competence acquisition based on this foundation. The subject-oriented attitude of this work to analyze competence acquisition through design abilities turns it into a study focusing on the designer. This perspective, and the way the designer is assessed, is based on categorizing his/her abilities without using measurements and equalization instruments, such as thresholds and criteria. Focusing on the phenomenon of competence acquisition gained during undergraduate education, this study aimed to benefit from phenomenological research and reach the essence of this phenomenon using techniques such as epoché and reduction, and by focusing on the direct experience of competence. Within this main methodological approach, a small, focused sample was selected. In-depth interviews were conducted with the participants, recorded, and transcribed. The data generated were analyzed using thematic analysis. Codes, subsets, clusters and themes were generated, but only those that reflected a data reduction status of a sufficient level of comprehensiveness were interpreted and discussed. The themes and clusters presented refer to the conceptual foundation of design abilities. It is envisaged that this foundation constitutes a context for a more accurate and comprehensive understanding of competence acquisition.

The question of how space will be produced, up until this day, has been answered through discourses of “place” developed against the Cartesian space. These discourses have been questioned within a wide framework that intends to consider space in relation to the concepts like belonging, tradition, and meaning. However, today, it is unclear what kind of a place discourse “thirdspace” will be able to continue its production. This research attempts to produce three spatial narrations to respond to this lack of clarity and endeavors to analyze the research questions through the third narration. The third narration, which is enhanced by interpreting the literature on phenomenology, conceptualizes the thirdplace through the concepts of “body” and “experience,” and in the meantime, the sequence of the narrations harbors a holistic discussion from a Euclidean to a Cartesian one and then from Cartesian to a third one. These narrations, produced through the concepts of “emptiness,” “space,” and “place” that could be evaluated as a trilogy, do not trace an absolute and mandatory answer; instead, they seek to multiply the thoughts regarding the ways in which space could be produced, apart from the habitual ways.

For centuries, vernacular architecture using traditional building techniques with natural and local materials has offered sustainable and environment-friendly solutions. Turkish traditional housing located in various parts of Turkey and built according to the climate and environmental conditions has engendered a unique architecture. The occupants of traditional houses, while organizing their houses according to their needs, have also harmonized with the characteristics of these houses and developed routines and activities. In this context, the traditional Turkish houses and their occupants’ habits and lifestyles were analyzed. Osmaneli (Bilecik County) was chosen as the research area on the basis of the existence of the traditional housing stock built during Ottoman period as well as contemporary housing stock. In the study, traditional and contemporary houses were compared according to construction methods, materials, spatial organization, and occupant behavior. It was found that the traditional Osmaneli houses are more sustainable than contemporary Osmaneli houses. The materials and plans of traditional houses lead their occupants to behave in a specific way, leading to more sustainable lifestyles than the contemporary housing occupants.