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.
Highlights
Conventional building systems of the Modern era have aimed to resist the outdoor environment, instead of being responsive to local climate conditions
The conventional building systems have ignored the relationship between human and nature
Climate change is a recent topic that needs to be addressed much more in architectural design education to prepare students for the unforeseen challenges
Summary
Conventional building systems of the Modern era have aimed to resist the outdoor environment, instead of being responsive to local climate conditions. Vernacular and traditional architecture styles before the Modern era used the local climate opportunities like the orientation towards the sun, the ratio of the building surface and the cultural traditions, etc., to sustain thermal comfort inside the spaces. The conventional building systems have ignored the relationship between human and nature. These systems have triggered today’s energy-hungry construction methods. Climate change is a recent topic that needs to be addressed much more in architectural design education to prepare students for the unforeseen challenges. It will become necessary that more schools will address this issue in their future curriculum and that more tutors acquire sufficient basic climate design knowledge to be able to guide such studios
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