Bilgi University Architecture / Interior Architecture / Industrial Design Department
Basic Design Studio 2011-2016
Assignment #1 Students were asked to photograph 'something designed' and create cut-outs within specific dimensions and create a composition with them considering the relation of different cut-outs and the overall composition.
Assignment #2: Compositions created with abstraction of the previous assignment as Black and White cut-outs. Assignment is an introduction to purposeful Abstraction and systematic design process.
Basic Design Fall / Spring Semester
This course aims to help students understand the world through abstraction and conceptualization of their surroundings: shapes, forms, figures, colors, textures, materials, scales and use these understandings to produce organizations: designs as compilations, compositions, arrangements and rearrangements. Series of assignments intend to develop the skills of students in simultaneous efforts of analysis (reading/decoding) and development (writing/encoding) of relationships. While requirements and restrictions help them concentrate on specific aspects of design thinking, hands-and-minds-on experimentation within the 2-D or 3-D design space expand the possibilities.
Assignment #3: Students start to develop systematic thinking while Concept such as Deviation, Metamorphosis, Exception are introduced.
Solid Void Assignment: Students are asked to create a composition within a cubical space with limited number of components
Assignment #3 cont. Students start to investigate with depth and introduction to three dimensional compositions
Growth and Evolution Assignment: Students are asked to deform a component based system through repetition, evolution and gradual transformation
Lines and Planes Assignment: System created with the use of sticks and different types of planes within a rule based arrangement. Project by Cagatay Ozkardesler
First Semester Final Project
New Year Lantern Design
Lantern Installations based on a systematic composition are placed within the school garden. Projects are done within groups and students start with a material and component research which leads to Large Scale, app. 2-3m in diameter Lanterns. They are responsible to integrate the lighting equipment to the design as well.
