(Ebook) Understanding Aesthetic Experiences of Architectural Students in Vertical and Horizontal Campuses: A Comprehensive Approach by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Seda H. Bostancı and Asst. Prof. Dr. Suzan Girginkaya Akdağ

(Ebook) Understanding Aesthetic Experiences of Architectural Students in Vertical and Horizontal Campuses: A Comprehensive Approach by Assoc. Prof. Dr. Seda H. Bostancı and Asst. Prof. Dr. Suzan Girginkaya Akdağ

The typological features of university campus areas are shaped according to their
locations in the city. Campuses in city centers carry great potentials for students’
cultural, intellectual and artistic activities, especially for those from faculty of
architecture and design, with close relations to the city. In big metropolitan cities,
it is hard to reserve land for campuses therefore they emerge as vertical settlements.
On the other hand, campuses built on the periphery mainly feature horizontal
planning characteristics due to availability of land. The aim of this paper is to
develop an approach for measuring architecture students’ aesthetic experience of
vertical and horizontal campuses in relation to sense of place theory. Recently,
emerging technologies in cognitive science, such as brain imaging techniques,
activity maps, sensory maps, cognitive mapping and photo-projective method etc.,
have enabled advanced measurement of aesthetic experience. In this exploratory
research, using ‘photo-projective method’, students will be asked to interpret and
draw ‘cognitive maps’ of the places that they are happy to be (defined place) or to
see (landscape) on the campus. Based on students’ impressions and experiences, it
will be possible to compare aesthetic experience on vertical and horizontal campus.
Thus, a comprehensive approach for improving campus design according to users’
aesthetic experiences and sense of place rather than building technology, law,
development and finance driven obligations will be introduced.
JOURNAL OF CONTEMPORARY URBAN AFFAIRS (2020), 4(2), 13-26.