The experiences in February 2023 revealed that sustainable disaster
management and disaster-sensitive spatial planning and design studies
have a critical role in creating resilient cities. This study aims to
develop a new approach in the context of landscape architecture, one of
the spatial planning and design disciplines, for the city of Istanbul,
which is under high earthquake risk but is also rapidly changing and
developing, and losing its open-green areas as it changes.
In the
city of Istanbul, there are many campus areas scattered throughout the
city with different functions. If campus open-green areas are planned
and designed in a disaster-sensitive manner, it will be possible to talk
about a campus network system on an urban scale. This study deals with
disaster-sensitive campus open-green space planning and design in a
3-scale setup, from urban scale to campus cluster scale and ITU Ayazağa
Campus. The main purpose determined is the Development of
Disaster-Sensitive Landscape Planning and Design Guide Proposal for ITU
Ayazağa Campus. Sub-objectives of the study; "Revealing the potential of
the city of Istanbul regarding disaster management in the context of
campuses", "Determining the potential of ITU Ayazağa Campus within the
Urban Campus Cluster system" and "Revealing the parameters - methods
that will guide disaster-sensitive landscape planning and design for ITU
Ayazağa Campus".
Within the framework of these purposes,
campus-scale studies are carried out by using GIS technology, expert
surveys, Multi-Criteria Decision Making Processes (ANP and Simple Sum
Weighting) and Suitability Analyzes, disaster-sensitive open-green area
typologies are determined and relevant design approaches and strategies
are developed.
There is no guide study in our country that
integrates campus open-green areas into the disaster management system.
In this context, the project will be beneficial in ensuring resilience
not only for ITU Ayazağa Campus and the City of Istanbul, but also for
other cities and campuses at risk of earthquakes.