EMU Urban Design Postgraduate Program Students' Project 'Designing a Pedestrian/Student Friendly Campus –EMU' Visited by EMU Rector Prof. Dr. Abdullah Y. Öztoprak

An urban design project entitled with ‘Improvemnet Project for EMU Campus: Designing a Pedestrian/Student Friendly Campus’ are studying by Urban Design Postgraduate program students and coordinating by Prof. Dr. Şebnem Önal Hoşkara and Assist. Prof. Dr. Beser Oktay Vehbi and research assistans Samaneh Ghafourian and Payam Mahasti for 2010-2011 spring semester. Since the project is related with the EMU campus and its improvement, the expectetions and needs  of the students and as well as the Rector Ofifice are essentials for taking some desicions. Therefore, the project coordinators and students  invited the EMU Rector Prof. Dr. Abdullah Y. Öztoprak for presenting the possible potentials and existing problems of the campus to him an also to know their expectation for future of the campus.

Prof. Dr. Abdullah Y. Öztoprak was visited the Urban Design Postgraduate Program project in the Faculty of Architecture on 15 April 2011. During this visit, the students were present the natural, physical and social analysis of the campus that will help to determine the strenghts and weakness of the campus.  It was also aimed to discuss the possibiltiy of the proposals that are developed by the students regarding the problems that gathered from the analyses and to hear the Rector’s ideas on them. He also shared Rector’s office new projects for the campus and advised possible locations for these projects to the UD programe students.

It was very helpfull discussion for the sudents to get the ideas of Rector’s office and accordingly they will produce most appropriate and applicable proposals for pedestrian/student friendly campus for final.