Conservation Education Techniques: The Role and Importance of Modern Technology

Abstract

Between all of the professional education disciplines, architectural education is an interdisciplinary model that acquires a different character due to the transfer of design consciousness process and necessity of being carried out in a coordinated manner with other disciplines. As a result of differentiation, education and teaching process is getting a difficult situation, intellectual background for implementation of training intensity causes time issue. According to this fact, different methods in different schools of architecture are being tried even every faculty members are developing strategies that can be called subjective. Developed in different ways from each other, the common point of all this training strategies should focused on modern technology based student-centered education to increase the quality of education.Restoration is one of many major fields of science, located under the discipline of architecture that transfers past to the future by reflecting the characteristics of its age and maintaining cultural continuity in history. Owing to the fact that restoration defines multi-dimensional, multi-faceted and very problematic area it needs collaboration of different disciplines such as architecture, urban planning, sociology, art history, archeology and engineering.A successful restoration practice can be achieved by group of experts, well educated in their fields. Thence, restoration education should be given in this context. Documentation and building survey works, is at the basis of restoration practice and in our country carried out by conventional methods. The mentioned systems’ excess of workload and the high error margin reduces the reliability of the documentation and survey works. Conversely revealing accurate, reliable and fast data with modern methods increase necessity of preference of these methods require. Due to education of the target audience is the generation of the technology era that gave birth to modern methods, the use of technological equipment for students interested in the course will increase the susceptibility of the education will ensure successful.Erciyes University Faculty of Architecture is improving its “restoration training” in the light of this approach. Technological surveying methods have been examined, most compatible program packages for student knowledge and architectural education have been investigated and Tachycad, Point Cloud and Photoplan programs were preferred. Necessary background produced by getting trained on pointed programs and purchased technical equipment. Educational strategy, supported by the established background, has been used primarily in the education of graduate students and has been applied on the sample American College Building which located within the Social Establishments region of Erciyes University. Our faculty aimed at improve technology-assisted learning strategies on behalf of achieving accurate and reliable restoration practices and implementing this method in undergraduate education. With this proceeding, the implementation process performed and the necessity and practicability of these methods will be described and be presented.