Living on Water: An Interdisciplinary Course on Designing Temporary Floating Houses in Post-Earthquake Istanbul
This is a studio course co-designed by four faculty from three disciplines and two universities. Emre Otay from Civil Engineering Department
and Ayfer Bartu Candan from Sociology Department at Bogazici University, Oral Goktas and Sevince Bayrak from Architecture Department at MEF University co-taught this course. The primary aim of this course has been to collaborate on designing an emergency scenario and temporary housing in post-earthquake Istanbul in an interdisciplinary manner. 17 Engineering, 10 Sociology, and 17 Architecture students worked both independently and participated in the weekly meetings of the interdisciplinary teams.