THREE TYPES OF URBAN BOX IN ARCHITECTURE DESIGN STUDIO

Abstract

This paper includes architectural design studio samples, in which the designer, who is also the user of the city, defines the city with a critical eye, identifies its problems and seeks answers to these problems with her own solutions for the urban texture. The main purpose of the design studio, which moves from the idea of the box in the representation of the architectural design process, is to rethink the urban awareness and see the different types of the box in the urban space. In the design studio carried out with the third year students (VI. semester) of Karadeniz Technical University (KTU) Department of Architecture in the 2017 and 2019 Spring semesters, the main problem focus was determined as Trabzon, which was chosen as the study area, and the urban parts in Trabzon and the urban box theme. While the box represents the smallest unit in the organization of the fragments of a whole, the urban box is a design issue that aims to provide answer to the current problems and/or possible configurations of the city within scope of the design studio. In this context, the routes produced for the city and the selected city part through the types; “Diffusion”, “Adaptation”, “Just The Box or The Holistic Box” are defined in different scales and functions with their approaches. This paper, which brings up the rethinking of the urban form of the local in the context of the box idea; has shown that the ideas produced about the city and its parts are routes that contain functional, social and cultural codes.