Reading campus morphology by computational methods: The case of Bursa Uludağ University Görükle campus

The process of establishing higher education institutions, which started with the proclamation of the Republic, created the need for physical space where education would take place. In this context, campuses were established starting from big cities in order not to change the life in urban areas, to evaluate extra-urban areas and to create autonomous living environments. Campus establishment processes were carried out through competition or assignment. Various morphologies have been proposed for campuses as a result of the estimation of future educational and societal needs. As a result of the processes, campus structures which designed from top to bottom, were built. Considering the possibilities of the day, forecasting processes were carried out intuitively. In recent years, analytical methods have been developed as an alternative to intuitive methods. With these developed methods, mathematical estimations of the final product have become possible. The aim of the study carried out in this direction is to investigate the differences experienced by a campus structure designed in the past while responding to today's conditions. In the study, it was tried to express the difference in life with the design foresight by using space syntax and fractal analysis methods. The analysis techniques proposed within the scope of the study were applied on Bursa Uludağ University Görükle Campus that designed by Sezar Aygen in 1978. In order to understand the process, syntactic and fractal analyzes including the first design, the situation in 2000 and today's situation were made. The values obtained as a result of the analyzes and the differences resulting from the effects of social and physical variables were expressed numerically and the spatial equivalents of the results were interpreted. It has been concluded that the process should be evaluated analytically, not intuitively, in order to minimize the differences that will set a precedent. With the knowledge gained from the computational process, design proposals were developed and their positive effects were expressed.