Mimari tasarım stüdyosunda anlatı eylemi: Stüdyo altı | üstü

This thesis investigates the creative potential of narrative acts as a design tool and an object through architectural design studios and opens it to reconsideration and discussion in the context of Studio Altı | Üstü, Department of Architecture, TOBB University of Economics and Technology (ETU). Studio Altı | Üstü is a rethinking environment about today's architectural design education with the visual and textual design tools of the past and present; it is a process-oriented alternative studio that looks at architecture through narratives, established to produce speculations about the future, to expose flaws, mistakes, trial and error methods while revealing the invisible qualities. While developing the design process around a story/fiction with narrative, the studio pushes the boundaries of architectural design and establishes creative and triggering relationships between imagination-image and thinking-making. As a way of generating design ideas, narrative acts also constitute a modality of thinking to reproduce them. Narrative is a fragmented structure; each fragment participates in the construction of design thinking through the production and reproduction of events and relationships. The structural, ideational and discursive nature of narrative is fundamental to the production, interpretation and perception of the thought of architectural design. In the context of Studio Altı | Üstü, all the design fragments, narratives, developed in this process constitute a visual and textual representation of architectural thought through different media such as 3D modelling, animation, collage, comics or a series of orthographic architectural drawings within a story/fiction. Studio Altı | Üstü uses narrative drawing as a dialogue between story and line to embody the unreal/unconstructed/fictional through narrative acts and media. Narrative drawing is an architectural story created through a media, an alternative medium of imagining, describing and realizing indistinct places full of hidden possibilities. This thesis presents a theoretical and practical exploration of narrative acts as a learning and teaching approach in the architectural design studio. It aims to speculate on the future of architectural education with today's design tools and to evaluate the potential of narrative. Keywords: Design act, Architectural design studio, Narrative drawing, Fragment, Media