A DESIGN STUDIO EDITION AND SAMPLING IN ARCHITECTURE EDUCATION

It is a reality accepted by everyone that architectural design studio courses are at the core of

architectural education in architectural education, where applied courses are dominant. In

architectural design studios, students are expected to create their own designs by using their

creativity, to put these designs in a contextual framework together with the needs of the land,

and to make them considering the requirements and needs of the place where the design is

made. It is a very difficult process to put forward projects that are compatible with the existing

topography and based on contextual criteria. Among the Architectural Design Studio I,II,XIII

courses, the most challenging ones are undoubtedly the most challenging ones for students,

since they also cover the process of getting used to architectural education by firstyear students

who are placed in the faculty of architecture with a very different understanding from

architectural education -by solving tests and studying for general culture and general aptitude

exams. Design Studio-I and Architectural Design Studio-II. Architecture department students,

who come to the university with a completely different working culture, falter in their first year

because they are unfamiliar with the studio culture. Architectural Design Studio-I is among the

main objectives of Architectural Design Studio-I, while Architectural Design Studio-II is an

approach to topography for students who learn studio culture and have mastery of basic design

concepts, it aims to convey architectural issues such as design decisions on sloping land,

environmental elements and environmental analysis, case study. As a result of this, in this

study, the applications made within the scope of the course are discussed in order to improve

the ability of the students who have started to get used to the studio culture, to analyze the given

study topic, to evaluate the obtained findings and to interpret them. Study; It was held within

the scope of Architectural Design Studio-II course in the spring semester of the 2021-2022

academic year, at Atatürk University, Faculty of Architecture and Design, Department of

Architecture. In this context, in the study; It is aimed to convey the results of the topic of

"viewing terraces on a sloping land and a restaurant project for 50 people", which was realized

with the students, together with the topography approaches, contextual infrastructure and

environmental analyzes. Evaluations were made by giving place to the student projects selected

in the study method, the studio process and the result products.

Keywords: Architectural education, architectural design studio, studio education, design.