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ARCH401 | PREJURY2

ARCH 464 | “Everything on site is chained.”

This week, our guest of the lecture is Can Aker. During the lecture, he shared his work experiences on many different topics.

He first mentioned about the critical path method. It is more about the management of plan of work. There are many different principles that affect each other. For example, the person in charge for elevator work cannot make his work before the concrete work is not over. Thus, the organization and coordination of different works on site should be well-organized.

He said that the only desire of the taskmaster is to finish the work on time with a low cost and without the loss of high quality.

Job security is one of the most important point on work site. The workers and employees should have a clean, safe and happy work place. It is not a something to be proud of having a low number of work accident. In addition, the person in charge should pay attention for the health of environment. For instance, the wheels of the vehicles should be washed before these vehicles go out from the work site. Noise and night work are also another bullets that are under environment health. Can Aker mentioned about one of his experinces from his work life. One of the firm that he worked wrote a worksite plan which depicts the process on site clearly. For instance, that firm made their plan of placement of worker ward, refectory, crane, diesel, tank etc.

In addition, we talked about the role of value engineering. Value engineering comes into question if the construction cost is much more than predicted construction cost. Value engineering is to calculate how to lower the cost without lowering the quality.

On worksite, the most striking point for an architect is to overlap of different disciplines of mechanic, electric and static. For example, mechanical engineers wants large dimensions for shafts but these areas lowers architects’ design areas. An architect needs to learn how to optimize different principles’ needs.

Furthermore, we discussed on the communication between an architect, engineer and workers. Every morning, work site makes a meeting to decide the works of that day. Engineers and architects said these works to headworkers (all headworkers have the drawings of the project) and headworkes explained how to do the works of day to his group of workers. Under that topic, we talked on the percentages of man-hour and material.

ARCH 464 | PROTECTION OF CULTURAL HERITAGE

This week, we hosted Emrah Köşgeroğlu whose has a profession on restoration. His presentation is started with the definition of cultural inheritance. He mentioned about the branches of the cultural heritage.

1. Tangible Cultural Heritage

   a. Movable Cultural Heritage (pantings, sculptures etc.)

   b. Immovable Cultural Heritage (monuments, archaeological expeditions etc.)

2. Intangible Cultural Heritage (verbal heritage, tradition etc.)

Considering these information, he mentioned that architecture has a concern with tangible cultural heritage. Then, he talked about two laws (Law 2863 and Law 5226) on cultural heritage. Law 2863 was introduced at 1983 and it is known as Law of Protection of Cultural and Natural Existences. Law 5226 was introduced at 2004 and it was reorganized the first law.

He also explained the institutions related with the cultural heritage: (T.C.Kültür ve Turizm Bakanlığı, Rölöve ve Anıtlar Müdürlükleri, Vakıflar Genel Müdürlüğü, Kültür Varlıkları Koruma Yüksek Kurulu, Kültür Varlıkları Bölge Koruma Kurulu, Müzeler)

In addition, we talked about the 4 different steps of the process:

1. Decision of protection

2. Drawings & surveying (restitution, restoration)

3. Agreement of regional protection institutions

4. Application

The team of a restoration of a project consists of restoration experts, urban planners, architects, art historians, engineers and experts of materials.

The important point in restoration is to make a design whose additions can be dicriminal from the existent remains. Furthermore, the additions has a potential to be moved, recovered or redesigned. In the light of these explanations, Emrah Köşgeroğlu said that reconstruction should be the last design decision.

Finally, he gave 2 examples of his designs: Anavarza Antique City Entrance Gate in Adana and Mamure Turkish Bath in Anamur.

ARCH 464 | FIRE AND LIFE SAFETY

This week, our guest of the lecture is Tanju Ataylar who is the manager of Karina Design Services and our topic is fire and life safety. He started his presentation by stating the dependence of faith of the building and the design of this building because the primary of fire safety should be the protection rather than prevention. Design of buildings plays a significant role to provide the protection.

Fire protection is achieved by the combination of prevention, protection, egrees and other features:

• Prevention of ignition

• Detection of fire

• Control of fire development

• Confinement of the effects of fire,

• Extinguishment of fire

• Provision of refuge or evacuation facilities

• Staff reaction

• Provision of fire safety information to occupants

The means of egrees consists of three seperate parts: the exit access, the exit and the exit discharge. The exit includes door assembles, stairs, ramps, exit passageways, outside balconies etc.

The exit features are about travel distance, widths of the exit, number of exits, limitation on the travel path (slope, obstruction, lighting etc.).

We analyzed the different situations of travelled distance on plan drawings. We learned one-way escapes, double-way escapes, common escapes and dead-end escapes. Under these analysis, we analyzed these situations considering the related standarts and regulations.