The effects of form on humans and life are a crucial subject of discussion. Facades of buildings that make up the city are greatly responsible for these effects with their figurative characteristics. Identification of the principles and directives that help to maintain syntactic and semantic (subject-object) integrity for the continuity of a city will prevent people from becoming alienated from their surroundsing. To this end, this study focuses on the contribution design and evaluation process on the chosen facade on Meşrutiyet Street. In this scope, the aim scope and method of the study was set forth. The relevant concepts were examined and the method and technique that were to be used in the facade evaluation model were determined. Eventually, presented the interpretations of the findings of the field study and conclusions. In the light of the results discussed future suggestions.

Universities aim to help students gain occupational skills through academic training and practice; to produce knowledge by carrying out applications and investigations which have scientific, social and economic bases, to prepare young people for community life by giving them duties and responsibilities; and finally, to make contributions to the social and educational level of the community. Moreover social and cultural activity areas in universities in which, apart from lecture halls, students spend most of their time during their educational, lives, are of great importance for social interaction. Social spaces, whose educational and awareness-raising role of preparing the youth for community life, are taken into account and of these areas, about their use of student assessment analysis is aimed. During this analysis, student views were investigated and compared at different university campus locations. Bahçeşehir University Beşiktaş Campus as a town university, Yıldız Teknik University Yıldız Merkez Campus as an in-town campus, Koç University Sarıyer Campus as a out-oftown campus were chosen as locations for the study. Statistical analysis is applied to the data obtained from the questionaries completed by students in the chosen universities. Following such investigations, findings relating to the sufficiency of social and cultural activity areas in campuses, their occupancy and reachability; and the user profile of the activity areas and town usage as a cultural area are obtained and evaluated.

Research in design and design methodologies began to appear in industrialized societies in the 1950s and 1960s and design, as an act been described in various ways. After this period, examination of, and debates over the contents and components of design, as well as such topics as the thinking process of the designer, gradually increased and in this context new theories and methods emerged. Today, these examinations and debates have gained a new dimension in terms of developments in science and technology, particularly with the involvement of computer environment and computational Technologies in the design process. This work is focused on the interactive transformations between the process, form and representation which determine contemporary architectural discourse.

With the Law of Metropolitan Municipalities (5216th) enacted in 2004, administrative changes occured to the status of town municipalities. While the authority border of metropolitan areas enlarged, changes were made to the administrative status of many town municipalities which were in, or on the fringesof, metropolitan areas. The aim of the 5216th Law of Metropolitan Municipalities, is to control and direct the spatial development of metropolitan areas and to provide planned and effective urban development for cities and their outskirts. This regulation has far-reaching results, the most important of which is to create an effective control mechanism on the town municipalities whose sphere of authority operates within the region of metropolitan cities. The aim of this study is to analyze the results of this law. To this end, the town municipalites of Aksu, Beldibi, Çalkaya, Çığlık, Doyran, Döşemealtı, Düzlerçamı, Pınarlı, Varsak, Yeşilbayır and Yurtpınar, all of which were beyond the Antalya Metropolitan Area before Law 5216th was introduced, were analyzed in terms of planning approach. In this comparative analysis, plan modifications were used to observe changes in the planning approach of town municipalities, with the aim of discovering if there were differences in, or changes to, their approach and process before and after the regulation.

Designers often call on their past experiences in order to solve new design problems. Information recalled from the memories of past spatial experiences play an important role in the establishment of the framework to be used when solving the current design problem. However, recalled information may be related to methods or certain aspects of the previous solutions of similar design problems which may not always be appropriate to the problem at hand. Therefore, such remembered spatial experiences may have adverse effects on the design process, for instance in the form of design fixation, a difficulty which may be more pronounced for inexperienced designers. This paper reports the findings of an experimental study which was devised to expose the possible adverse effects of previous spatial experiences on the designs of first year architecture students.

Tourism is an important way of presenting a city’s cultural assets to the outside world and assisting in transferring such cultural wealth to new generations. However, a negative enviromental effect of tourism is the changing of a street’s historical building facades due to new functions required of it by the industry Talimhane district is selected as a key study to exemplify the adverse effects of building alterations in the historical areas. Talimhane is an area in which Early Republican buildings can be found and it has a special pattern that differs from surrounding areas. Changes over time and the conversion in exchange for the benefits of tourism in Talimhane’s streets are the barriers to maintaning the historical value of the area. The purpose of this study is to analyse data on building facades for the approaches of maintaining the integrity of architectural heritage spaces which are being transformed by tourism.