Spatial Organization Approaches at the First-Year Design Studio

Abstract

The space, that the raw material of design studio contents in disciplines related to spatial design, is a delimited space in the simplest terms. The totality of relations created in this delimited volume is associated with certain organizational form, such as central, linear, clustered, gridal and radial. This study aimed to investigate those organizational forms based on student process outputs of 17 students, completed the Design Studio-I course during the 2022-2023 Fall Semester at the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design at Fenerbahce University. Also it is aimed to created a space fiction by using basic design elements and to reveal student approaches in this process. The study was designed with qualitative research method and content analysis was used as the data collection technique. In this direction, the process stages and outputs performed by the students for the given problem in the studio environments were analyzed. As a result of the analyzes, the form analysis of the two-dimensional photo frames by using the design elements and the transformation process of this analysis into the space organization has been revealed. Thus, an application for the way of benefiting from design elements in the process of space organization has been showed.