A New Experience for Integration of Section and Model: A Case Report

Abstract

Architectural education inherently requires continuity. The transformative power of the world, which people have experienced in the last 5 years with crises such as pandemics and earthquakes, has changed and forced the form, style and tools of this continuity. Architectural design education, which was shaped on the axis of a studio culture, had to cope with the ruptures and transitions of a new phase. This case report aims to convey an experience that brought together the adaptation of face-to-face education of the students after the online education and the section-model practice that the studio tutors have experienced before. Since the study tries to repair the correlations between the continuity, ruptures and transitions of architectural design education, integration of section and model has been re-engaged in the studio. The study group consists of architecture students who switched to online education after the February 2023 earthquakes and started face-to-face education again in the fall semester of 2023/2024. As a result, well-thought models, few experiments on the models and quick transfers to digital programs were revealed as three main tendencies in the studio. In conclusion, the adaptation of the student on the axis of continuity and to reinforce the design productivity, design problem-solving skills and the habit of doing design research tried to provide.