Interior Architecture and Environmental Design at Yaşar University:
The main aim of our department, active since 2004 under the roof of Faculty of Architecture, is to educate interior architects that create qualified interior environments; have all the knowledge, skills and competences that the field of interior architecture and environmental design requires in accordance with the disciplinary definitions specified above; form interior designs by centering the requirements of the users and the user; produce original interior space projects and interact with the contiguous disciplines (architecture, industrial design, visual communication design) and in addition, with the other art and design fields. Emphasizing the conventions and values peculiar to the interior architecture field is at the focus of our department.
Interior architects and environmental designers graduating from our department are expected to be sensitive towards professional ethics, research-oriented, entrepreneur, ethical towards cultural heritage as well as nature, self-confident, critically thinking, following current design discourse, open to the innovations while seeking for the conventions of the discipline.
Various courses are presented to our students under the Fields of courses such as studio and practice-based courses, presentation and digital technologies, history/theory, construction/detailing. The studio courses taking place in each semester are carried out in an integrated way with the other two courses in the semester; therefore, the flow of information is provided. What is meant by “environmental design” is the environmental issues related to interior space, that is the integrity of the design decisions performed in a way that will influence “the health and safety of the occupants, including air quality and circulation, temperature control, ergonomic layout, physical circulation plan and related matters” (NCIDQ_Definition of Environmental Design).
We expect interior architect and environmental designer candidates that wish to join the family of Yaşar University Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design after assessing all the above-mentioned qualities of the department.
Prof.(PhD) Zeynep TUNA ULTAV
Department Head