The purpose of this text is to determine how the architectural sketches produced by the educator-architect can be transformed by architecture students into an architectural composition and how coherent relationships are established in achieving a holistic outcome product. The method, which is a part of the architectural studio education, starts with the sketches made by the educator-architect instantly for each student separately. The expectation in the design process is a holistic outcome product development that defines a coherent network of relationships from the initial idea sketch. As a result, two groups of orientations were identified as "the ones interpreting the sketch with contextual-formal elements" and "those who created separate situations from the linear character of the sketch" but despite similar orientations, it was found that similar analogy tools were used in the meaning-perception-comprehension phase of the idea sketch. Through this study, the group of students who previously used the sketch process in their design studios with their own practices or experimented with the transition to the third dimension with models by using the sketch process, handled the linear-contextual-formal pattern of the sketch produced by the educator-architect and discovered different orientations of architectural production at this point.
The aim of the study is to develop new design insights with regard to a new building in the historical environment of Sivas in Central Turkey. For this purpose, traditional houses located on a main road known as Hollukluk Street in Sivas have been chosen as the study area and a method focusing on the concept of reference is applied within a studio setting. Consequently, design insights have been developed by analysing the study area on mass organisation, spatial organisation, frontal texture, tectonic fiction and compactness relations in terms of street texture. In this practice, it has been observed that the students tend to refer to the entrance axis as a design guide, use the horizontal and vertical lines of the mass and refer to the new design with reference to the tectonic components. The outputs of the studio are formed in terms of four design insights which are shared in the findings section. As a result, design information produced from context-defined practice was used as the constituent elements of the formal structure in the new building, and these also contributed to the improvement of the street silhouette within the existing built environment.
Keywords: Architectural studio, design, historical environment of Sivas, new building.
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