Topological Ground: Land Form and Built Form

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2022-8-31

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This thesis aims to discover the augmented ground of architecture to respond the emerging landscapes that require different disciplinary studies for re-situating themselves within a contemporary design process. Two significant disciplines that have already been working on this issue stands out: architecture and landscape architecture. By focusing on the “demarcation line” between them and discovering the potentials of that line, the study intends to break the disciplinary borders to construct a new ground for architecture that is responsive to current paradigm shifts where the change on architecture’s ground from a single artefact to a system is evident. Lines and landscapes are leading the discussions throughout the thesis. Learning from dualities the two-dimensional bonds and borders are enlarged to four-dimensional systems by topological grounds that are operative, culturally, and naturally thick. Two definitions are put forward to discover these topological grounds: land form and built form. Through a series of assessments, the perpetual change between land form and built form is discovered and discussed.

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Topology, built form, land form, ground, landscape architecture

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N. N. Aksu, “Topological Ground: Land Form and Built Form,” Ph.D. - Doctoral Program, Middle East Technical University, 2022.