Eastern Mediterranean University (EMU) Faculty of Architecture Vice Dean and Department of Interior Design academic member Assoc. Prof. Dr. Banu Tevfikler Çavuşoğlu served as a jury member at the İstanbul Technical University, Faculty of Architecture, Department of Interior Design 2018 – 2019 Academic Year Fall Semester Project.
The jury of the INTER(C)ONNECTIONS Bakırköy Train Station & Integrated Public/Urban Interior Design Semester Project was carried out in four stages. In the first stage, the students were expected to reach beyond the transportation-accessing services in the multipolar network of Bakırköy Station’s old and new buildings, and to re-design the social networks by evaluating them based on their connectivity and internality. Moving forward from this point, the aim was to create different and unique approaches for spatial interfaces grouping different social and interaction layers; and for designing the public/urban interior elements for integrating these aforementioned elements.
The semester project had the main goal of developing the students’ critical skills and observing whether the students have reached the desired occupational level equipped with sufficient knowledge and know-how in all the fields of discipline forming the educational integrity of ITU Department of Interior Design. In scope of the project, the students were also expected to define the problem; analyse and examine (psychological, physical and aesthetics etc.) the required programme’s spatial equivalent, other conditions, requirements and resources, develop the design concept, define the priorities of design, transform the analysis results into spatial relationships; synthesise the accumulation of their knowledge and experiences, develop solution alternatives and propose a solution.
Assoc. Prof Dr. Banu Tevfikler stated that she was proud to represent EMU Department of Interior Architecture at ITU, one of Turkey’s most prominent and prestigious universities. Assoc. Prof. Dr. Banu Tevfikler emphasised on the importance of semester projects, one of the most significant indicators of educational quality in the field of Interior Architecture, in synthesising one’s accumulated knowledge and experience, developing solution alternatives and proposing spaces for all aspects of life.
