Designing Parametric Rhizomes in Architectural Space

Abstract

The technological developments in the world present a challenge to designstudio students and educators alike since the incorporation of computeraided design software into design education has become a necessity. Thispaper focuses on the 2019-2020 Spring Semester of INAR 302 InteriorDesign Studio IV at Çankaya University, which is a parametric designstudio where students are encouraged to experiment and utilize computerbased form-finding strategies, concentrating on the interior space. Therhizome concept of Deleuze and Guattari is reinterpreted by Studio 302as a design methodology, allowing students to experience the unorthodoxyof space-user dialectics in the inner voids of the parametric forms over theterm project of re-functioning a part of Ulus Square Office Complex as acity hotel with a futuristic extension. The study examines and evaluates thestudents' works, which derive conceptual ideas from the formal analysesof ceramic artworks in the Anafartalar Bazaar and environmental analysesof the historic site, transforming them into the parameters of futuristicarchitectural form and diverse rhizome interpretations. The findingsindicate that students' reinterpretations of \"variations\" in the ceramicartworks uncover multifaceted outcomes of digital design strategies,maintaining diverse rhizomatic progress, which synchronically determinesand is determined by the functional mutations