EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN UNIVERSITY

COURSE OUTLINE

COURSE
COURSE CODE ARCH 318 Spring Semester / 2020- 2021
LEVEL
COURSE TITLE Practices of Conservation and Restoration
COURSE TYPE Major Course
Prof. Dr. Beser Oktay Vehbi, Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ege Uluca Tümer,
LECTURER(S)
PT Ins. Cem Taneri
CREDIT VALUE 3 ECTS VALUE
PREREQUISITES Arch 311
COREQUISITES -
DURATION OF COURSE 4 Course hrs.
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CATALOGUE DESCRIPTION

Emphasis on creating awareness and stirring up interest in architectural and urban heritage,
supplying an overview of the concept of architectural and urban conservation, providing students
with the knowledge about the basic concepts related to conservation, preservation and
restoration of historic buildings.
AIMS & OBJECTIVES

Aims and objectives of this course are to provide the students to prepare a small-scale
restoration project to improve their skills in practice. The topics include measured
 Survey of an architectural monument or group of buildings,
 Preparation of documents of the building to be restored.
 Measured drawing of the details.
 Decision of necessary Intervention method and preparation of restoration project
(Preparing restitution and restoration plans, sections, facades, ceiling plans in the scale of
1/50 within the context of the survey )
 3D model drawing(if necessary)

GENERAL LEARNING OUTCOMES (COMPETENCES)

On successful completion of this course, all students will have developed knowledge and
understanding of:
- Concept of architectural and urban conservation,
- Different measuring techniques,
- Phases of measured drawing,
- Detecting material and Structural decays on Historic buildings,
- Preparation of an architectural conservation project.

On successful completion of this course, all students will have developed their skills in:
- understanding the architectural & urban conservation
- differences between measure drawing, restitution and restoration,
- analysing the types of decay and deterioration in the historic building components,
- working in groups (personal & key skills),
- making historical and technical research (personal & key skills).
On successful completion of this course, all students will have developed their appreciation of
and respect for values and attitudes regarding the issues of:
- Conservation of cultural heritage

GRADING CRITERIA

The basic information about the measured drawing and its phases (restitution, restoration,
adaptive reuse and the report of the project) that are introduced in this course are important as
well as the analysis of the given example buildings. The approach of student to a cultural
heritage, specifically to architectural heritage will be graded through given tasks/example
buildings. Furthermore, the studies will have site work & archival studies in order to complete the
restoration project. All phases will be graded totally at the end of the semester.

RELATIONSHIP WITH OTHER COURSES

The principles, techniques of conservation and restoration, which will be provided in this course,
are supposed to have a positive contribution to the analysis of the historic projects sites.

LEARNING / TEACHING METHOD

The topics will be lectured with the support of OHP and slide show. The students will be
encouraged to participate in the discussions on the course topics. Seminars focus on
measurement and drawing technics of survey. Technical excursions will be organized as a part of
the lectures provided. Students will be required to complete restoration project’s drawing/s either
in the studio and or at home. They also need to explain their projects individually even they
worked in the group.

ASSIGNMENTS

Assignment 1 (Individual work): Preparing measure drawing of your own room and its adjacent
room. In the first phase of the project, you will make sketch plan and take all measurements
(running, triangle, aligned) and transfer them onto you sketch plan. Photos from interior and
exterior that shows all details of these 2 rooms need to be taken. Then you will take the
measurements for section and façade drawings. The measured drawings of the rooms will be
drawn with AutoCAD (1/50 including measurements, space name, material name/s, levelling).

Final Assignment: a. Report Writing (Group Work): Group of 4 students will select a
monumental building (except mosque or church) between 500-750 m2 from their city which
restoration project has already been prepared by local authorities. Tasks of the group of students
include:
 Taking photos of the selected monumental building with the date
 Preparing the ‘Measured Drawing, Analysis and Restoration Report’ of the Project (A4
size booklet)

b. Suggesting the Adaptive Reuse of the building (Individual Work)

Each student should develop a scenario for the new use of the case building and design it
according to its new function.
METHOD OF ASSESSMENT

First Assignment: 40%

Critic Attendance:10%
Report Writing:30 %
Adaptive Reuse: 20%
(submission of assignments and attendance to criticS are compulsory)

ATTENDANCE
Students are expected to attend the lectures as regularly as possible. Those who fail in more
than 20% of the term would be graded NG and will not be able to attend the final exam.

TEXTBOOK/S
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INDICATIVE BASIC READING LIST

 Ahunbay, Z. Tarihi Çevre Koruma ve Restorasyon, YEM Yayınları, 1996.

 Altınoluk, Ü. “Yeniden Kullanımı”. YEM yayınları, İstanbul, 1998.
 Binan, D.U., Binan C., “An Approach for Defining, Assessment and Documentation of
Cultural Heritage on Multi-Layered Cities, Case of Bergama (Pergamon) –Turkey ”,
ICOMOS 15th General Assembly and Scientific Symposium, Cilt.I, 2005, Xian –Chine,
40-50.
 Binan, D.U., Kaptı M., Kıraç B.,Töre, T., “Bergama (İzmir) Kentsel Kültür Varlıkları
Envanteri 2005”, TÜBA Kültür Envanteri Dergisi, TÜBA Yay.,S.5- 2006, İstanbul, 57- 101.
 Caple, C., Conservation Skills, Routledge, 2000.
 CROCI, G., “The Conservation and Structural Restoration of Architectural Heritage”,
Southampton UK, Boston: Computational Mechanics Publications, 2000.
 FEILDEN, B. M., “Conservation of Historic Buildings”, Oxford: Butterworth Heinemann,
1997. BECKMANN, P. and BOWLES, R., “Structural Aspects of Building Conservation”,
Oxford: Elsevier, 2004.
 FEILDEN, B. M., 1982, Conservation Of Historic Buildings: Technical Studies in The Arts,
Archaeology And Architecture, London: Butterworth Scientific.
 Fielden, B.M. and Jokilehto, J., (1998). Management Guidelines for World Cultural
Heritage Sites, (ICCROM, Rome).
 GOODWIN, G. “A History of Ottoman Architecture”, ISBN
 Jokilehto, J., (1999). A History of Architectural Conservation, (Butterworth-Heinemann,
Oxford). (This book is available in .pdf format on ICCROM website www.iccrom.org
under home > information > pdf publications)
 SWALLOW, P., D. WATT, R. ASHTON, 2004, Measurement And Recording Of Historic
Buildings, London: Donhead Publishing Ltd.
 RECOMMEDED WEB-SITES

http://whc.unesco.org/ http://www.getty.edu/conservation/ http://www.korder.org/

http://www.iccrom.org/ www.euromedheritage.net http://www.kultur.gov.tr/
http://www.icomos.org/ www.heritageconservation.net www.iucn.org

SEMESTER OFFERRED 2020-2021 Spring Semester

W DATE TOPICS Assignment

1 05 Introduction
MArch

2 12 How to prepare measured drawing Assignment 1: Measured

March drawing of your own room
and its adjacent room &
Photos

Taking measurements for

2 Sections and 2
Elevations- be sure that
you have submitted
photos of all spaces and
façade.

Final Assignment:
Decide groupmates (total
4) and select your
monumental building that
has restoration project

3 19 Crit on Measured Drawing of 2 rooms (%2,5)

March Sketch plan of 2 rooms (including all details,
dimensions of elements and materials of the building Taking measurements for
elements, triangle, running measurement) 2 rooms .
4 26 Crit on Measured Drawing of 2 rooms - Individual Taking measurements for
March Work (%2,5) 2 Sections and 2
Sketch plan of 2 rooms (including all details, Elevations- be sure that
dimensions of elements and materials of the building you have submitted
elements, triangle, running measurement) photos of all spaces and
Sketch drawing of Sections and Elevations façade.
5 2 April 1. Crit on Measured Drawing of 2 rooms Plan Table of content for the
 on AutoCAD & Report of the Final
2. Crit on Sketch Drawings of sections and Project will be given by
elevations including all details on them. Instructors
(%2,5)

Submission of the Groupmate List and Selected

Monumental Building Restoration Project (PDF) for
FINAL ASSIGNMNET
6 9 April Crit on All Measured Drawing of 2 Rooms
including plans, sections, elevations and photos
(%2,5)

SUBMISSION OF THE FIRST ASSIGNMENT

11.04.2021 AT 22.00 (%40)

1. Submission all sketch drawing of Plan,

Section, Elevation& Photos
2. Submission of the AutoCAD (PDF) file of the
same drawings
7 16 April Introduction of the case study for the final project- Working on the Report
Group Presentations of the Project

Submission of the Project and photo Album of the

Final Project (PPT or PDF)-indicating dates taken
the pictures

8 23 April BAIRAM HOLIDAY –NO CLASS

8-9 24 MID-TERM EXAMS & JURIES

April-8
May
10 14 May Ramadan Bairam-NO CLASS
11 21 May Discussing on the report of the Project (%5)

13 28 May Presentation of the Report of the Project (%5)

1. NAME, CONSTRUCTION YEAR, FUNCTION, NUMBER OF FLOORS OF

THE BUILDING:
2. A BRIEF INTRODUCTION TO THE HOST CITY AND THE BUILDING:
3. PHOTOS AND SITE PLAN AND LOCATION OF THE BUILDING:
4. DISCUSSIONS ON THE VALUES OF BUILDING:
5. TYPE OF THE BUILDING:
6. EXISTING CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES AND MATERIALS:
7. REPORTS ON MATERIALS AND STRUCTURAL PROBLEMS:
8. BUILDING TYPOLOGY ANALYSIS:
9. BUILDING CHRONOLOGICAL ANALYSIS (restitution):
10. RESTORATION PROPOSALS FOR BUILDING AND ITS SURROUNDING
14 4 June Submission of the Report- Group Work (20%)
Discussion of the Reuse Proposal for the Building –Individual Work
15 8 June Discussion of the Reuse Proposal for the Building - Individual Work
16- 13-26 FINAL EXAMS & JURIES Submission of the Reuse Proposal 20%-INDIVIDUAL
17 June WORK