Exploration of Climate Change in Architectural Design Studio

Izmir Yasar University, Department of Architecture, Selcuk Yasar Campus, 35310 Bornova-Izmir, Turkey

^* Corresponding author: eray.bozkurt@yasar.edu.tr

Abstract

Many researches reveal that climate change is a significant public issue. With the rising awareness of climate change impacts by both national and international bodies, building climate resilience has become a major goal for many institutions. This influence began to find path in architectural design education. Architectural design education is mostly given in the design studios. Each semester, the studio instructors prepare design briefs that need to be completed in a required period of time with given constraints. This is an opportunity for the design studios to adapt new theories and approaches like climate change into the design study. This article describes the experiences of the studio team after the design work proposed for climate. The study explains the transition from research to design stage. The studio tutors collected data after close observations on 42 students from Yasar University, School of Architecture third year studio.