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Privacy dimensions: a case study in the interior architecture design studio
(Academic Press Inc., 2000-03)The most commonly used space in architectural education is the studio, which functions both as a learning centre and as a complex social organization. The behavioural elements in the design studio are analysed with respect ... -
Colour Naming
(Elsevier Limited, 2006)An experimental study exploring colour ranges corresponding to different colour names has been conducted. Available colour terms in Turkish language have been identified and the most frequently known or used colour terms ... -
An interdisciplinary heuristic evaluation method for universal building design
(Elsevier Limited, 2009)This study highlights how heuristic evaluation as a usability evaluation method can feed into Current building design practice to conform to universal design principles. It provides a definition of universal usability that ... -
User-centered design through learner-centered instruction
(Routledge, 2014-04-22)This article initially demonstrates the parallels between the learner-centered approach in education and the user-centered approach in design disciplines. Afterward, a course on human factors that applies learner-centered ... -
Universal Product Design Involving Elderly Users: A Participatory Design Model
(Elsevier Limited, 2004)Recent studies have shown that people prefer to age in their familiar environments, thus guiding designers to provide a safe and functionally appropriate environment for ageing people, regardless of their physical conditions ... -
Lighting monuments: Reflections on a lighting and environmental appraisal
(Elsevier, 2006)For more than 10 years, highlighting urban pattern, revealing the artifacts in our surroundings, and providing relationships among the elements of cities, outdoor lighting practice gained more significance. The following ... -
Data Collection for a Virtual Museum on the Underwater Survey at Kas, Turkey
(Wiley-Blackwell, 2011-03)The Underwater Archaeological Survey Project at Kas¸, on the Lycian coast of Turkey, has emerged from a need to document, research and preserve underwater sites in the area surrounding the town of Kas¸. This region has ... -
The Virtual Design Studio on the Cloud: a Blended and Distributed Approach for Technology-mediated Design Education
(Taylor & Francis, 2015-04-24)The studio is widely accepted as the core in design education because it aims to integrate many curricular topics within its scope. However, learning environments in studio teaching have not been explored and exploited as ... -
Domestic Arrangements: The Maid's Room in the Atakoy Apartment Blocks, Istanbul, Turkey
(Taylor & Francis Group Ltd, 2012-12-04)The first phase of Istanbul's Ataköy Housing Development, an icon of architectural modernism in Turkey, inflects modernist architectural forms with local domestic traditions. This study examines the maid's room, a sphere ... -
Taste Diaspora: The Aesthetic and Material Practice of Belonging
(Sage Publications Ltd., 2014)A particular ‘Turkish taste in Vienna’, which has been formed through experiences of migration from Turkey and resettlement in Vienna, serves as a significant aesthetic and social medium for constituting a collective ... -
Blended learning in design education: an analysis of students' experiences within the disciplinary differences framework
(A S C I L I T E, 2014)Blended learning has already become an indispensable part of education in many fields. However, the majority of existing research on blended learning has assumed homogeneity of disciplines. This study suggests that research ... -
The layered dependency structure matrix for managing collaborative design processes
(Open House International, 2014-03)Effective collaboration and knowledge management are the major contributors of success in the construction industry. Although a huge amount of interdisciplinary knowledge is exchanged in building design processes, there ... -
Global transformations versus local dynamics in Istanbul
(Elsevier Limited, 2000)Istanbul, as the greatest metropolis of Turkey and one of the great cities of the world, has been rapidly transforming in recent years. This paper analyzes various aspects of this transformation to lead to an understanding ... -
Inclusive design: developing students' knowledge and attitude through empathic modelling
(Routledge, 2014-06-26)To enhance the function and quality of built environments, designers should consider all possible users in their design projects. Therefore, it is essential to incorporate inclusive design in the education of the design ... -
The Rise of the Shopping Mall in Turkey: the Use and Appeal of a Mall in Ankara
(Elsevier Limited, 2005-03)The shopping mall as the site of contemporary consumption has long been attracting the attention of various researchers analyzing socio-spatial dynamics in different cultures. It is the focus of this study of recent ... -
Spatial updating of objects after rotational and translational body movements in virtual environments
(Elsevier Limited, 2008-05)Spatial reasoning in architectural design can be better understood by considering the factors that affect the spatial updating process of the individual in an environment. This study focuses on the issue of spatial updating ... -
A domain specific software model for interior architectural education and practice
(Elsevier, 2012-05-31)Interior architectural education and practice employ various general-purpose software packages. This study problematizes that as none of these packages is developed specifically for interior architectural design process ... -
The role of retailing in urban sustainability: The Turkish Case
(SAGE Publications Ltd, 2013-07)Consumption-oriented urban life has increased the role of the retail sector in the viability of the urban core and sustainability of cities. The current organization of retailing creates a centre/periphery dichotomy that ... -
Modelling detailed information flows in building design with parameter-based design structure matrix
(Elsevier Limited, 2006-01)The Architecture/Engineering/Construction (AEC) industry is one of the multidisciplinary domains in which collaboration among related parties is of utmost importance. Despite the intense flow of information between design ... -
An Insight on Designers' Sketching Activities in Traditional versus Digital Media
(Elsevier, 2003-01)This study aims at gaining an insight on designers' cognitive processes while sketching in digital vs traditional media. Empirical data on design processes have been obtained from protocol analyses of six interior designers ...
