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1980

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Özgüç, Bülent
Pultar, Mustafa

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The Political Science Faculty of Ankara University is planning to establish its own independent campus at a site acquired from the Turkish National Treasury near the township of Gölbaşı in Ankara. (Figure 1). The total land available for the campus is about 107 hectars on which 10 000 students will be finally accomodated. The plan for the campus not only include educational and research buildings but all other social, health, residential, etc.; provisions as well. Because the campus is to be located at " a site rather distant from the city, the residential units need critical attention. There is a lake nearly; thus water sports have been proposed in addition to regular sports activities. The School of Journalism of the faculty is also expected to use various parts of the site for purposes such as film making and for interaction with the local community in the town of Gölbaşı and a congress hall for political sciences is also a part of the plan. Various internal revenue generating organizations are expected to be established within the campus. The unstable, undefined and undecided nature of the present economic situation in Turkey, as well as the rate of social change force the individuals or institutions involved to make decisions suitable to flexibility in the brief, design and construction phases. The outcome of such an approach is expected to yield results so that the built environment can satisfy various needs arising through the process of social and economic metamorphosis. When we observe the present state of planning activities, we notice the rigidness and the static nature of the decisions made in preparing the brieves of public buildings. This, in itself is in contradiction with the statement made at the beginning of this paragraph. Thus, a dynamic approach for the preparation of brieves is necessary, which will make it possible to satisfy various needs arising in time, whether this be in the planning, programming, design, or construction phases or in the spatial management phase after the buildings have been completed. This whole approach should be aided by a dynamic computer software system which can provide for the modifications necessiated by the inputs that change in time at all phases of the building activity. For the accomodation of various policies need also to be introduced. These have to be extended to the economical and spatial behaviour of the predicted built environment, not excluding the infrastructure and vegetation. A component of social and psychological research should also be conducted externally, affecting various policies, spatial standards, and design principles. The results of these external studies should naturally be included in the evaluation processes and the feedback • mechanism of the software system. Within these guidelines, work has been started for the development of the software system described above for the Political Science Faculty. Two applied research contracts have been signed between Middle East Technical University and Ankara University, to be conducted by a research group under the supervision of the authors. This article explains the method, components., and the structure of the software system developed for this purpose. Thus, the discussions will be limited to the description of the software system rather than the specific requirements of the campus to be planned. The discussions will not be on the syntax of the system however; because of the dynamism of the whole approach, the flow of information and its interpretation at various levels seem to be more important. Therefore discussions are provided on the semantics of the whole approach, referring to syntactical issues wherever technical clarifications are of necessity.

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http://jfa.arch.metu.edu.tr/archive/0258-5316/1980/cilt06/sayi_2/183-198.pdf
https://hdl.handle.net/11511/51201

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