Interface of Indoor and Outdoor Spaces in Buildings A Syntactic Comparison of Architectural Schools

Educational atmosphere in schools of architecture can be connected to interrelation of indoor/outdoor spaces as well as the environmental effects. No matter what the level of education is, the outdoor spaces are crucial for the student life; thus the school designers take this matter into serious consideration. Moreover, architectural school designs are also a critical issue for architectural students, as they set an example of application. In most cases, architectural school designs somehow suffice the optimum settings for the requirements. However, there are numbers of school design choices, where the outcomes are solely defined by the pragmatic decisions; such as the two oldest state architectural schools of Istanbul, MSGSU and ITU, where large scaled institutional buildings were converted with concerns of spatial adequacy rather than a design strategy. This paper mainly focuses on the examination of the educational environs of these 150 years old buildings and their interface between indoor and outdoor spaces. This research focuses on the comparison of the frequency of students’ occupancy in the interfacing areas of the ground floors and the syntactic values of these spaces both in clear and rainy weather comparatively. The interfacing spaces are denoted as a courtyard for ITU, and a seaside terrace for