Conceived as a direct continuation of ARCH 501 Studio 1, ARCH 502 Studio 2 is an advanced design studio where students spatialize and visualise the concepts derived fromtheir theoretical readings, urban memory analyses, and socio-spatial research conductedduring the first semester within the context of the Kayseri city centre. The comprehensiveresearch foundation established in ARCH 501, built upon the observation of the city’s socialand physical layers through a past-present dialectic, evolves in ARCH 502 into an advanceddesign challenge. This challenge critiques the existing urban fabric and developsinterdisciplinary strategies for its spatial transformation from a global perspective. In thiscontext, the studio aims for students to reconsider their initial ‘socio-spatial life concepts’ through the built environment, seeking to (re)produce new architectural spaces and artefactsthat explore the contradictions of daily life while questioning the city’s social and physicaldynamics within a broader global context.
Course Instructors:
Prof. Burak Asiliskender
Assist. Prof. Özlem Kevseroğlu