IZMIR UNIVERSITY OF ECONOMICS
FACULTY OF FINE ARTS & DESIGN
DEPARTMENT OF ARCHITECTURE
ARCH 202. ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN II
Spring15
Project Two
An Animal Shelter Complex in Urla
INTRODUCTION “The greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way its
animals are treated.”― Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi
Urla is a slow-paced town a 45-minute ride away from Izmir, dominated by the blue
waters of the Aegean and grayish-green olive trees. Urla’s history dates back more than
5,000 years. It is home to the oldest known olive oil press, in the ancient Ionian city of
Klazomenai, and the archeological ruins of Limantepe, it is also an ancient wine making
region and a haven for organic farming.
South Los Angeles Animal
Shelter, RA-DA Architects
There are many families who visit Urla in the summer. They rent houses and usually buy
dogs for their children. At the end of the summer these dogs are left behind and wander
around the town looking for food and shelter. A professional animal shelter is
desperately needed to provide a healthy living to these abandoned dogs .
All animals must carry out basic life processes and therefore have basic needs. Humans
and non-human animals share these basic needs, which can be grouped into five areas:
1) Physiological needs – e.g. food and water, appropriate temperature/humidity, air and
light conditions etc.
2) Social needs – preference for living in solitude, in pair bonds or in a group.
3) Psychological needs – appropriate stimulation and activity to prevent boredom.
4) Environmental needs – suitable home, space and territory.
5) Behavioral needs – e.g. hibernation, nest building, burrowing.
Table Mountain Animal
Shelter, Steve Jensen
Animals in captivity, such as pets or animals in a shelter or zoo are entirely dependent
upon humans to provide the conditions that will satisfy their basic needs. It is therefore
important that anyone looking after animals is aware of all their needs.
PROJECT In this final project, you are asked to design an animal shelter complex in Urla, Izmir.
DESCRIPTION The complex will be built and managed by the Urla Municipality. The shelter's purpose
is to vaccinate and sterilize these dogs. After the required recovery time, the dogs are
returned to where they were found. The shelter will only keep the dogs that require
more care, such as sick, injured, pregnant or nursing dogs and their puppies. The
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building complex will occupy a total enclosed floor area of approximately 1800 m on
which caring, housing, treatment and other supplementary facilities for 150 dogs will
take place. In addition, you are expected to design the exterior spaces within the
boundaries of your site by considering access and entrance to the complex as well as
parking, landscaping, etc. (See the building program).
Denver Animal Shelter,
Heather Lewis
SITE & CONTEXT Your site is located on a hill with a slope of %10 and a level difference of 5 meters, near
SPCA New Animal Shelter,
Richard Ho
the Özbek Village within the boundaries of Urla. The building location should be decided
upon according to the local wind directions. (i.e. sheltered from the Northern wind).
There should be easy vehicular access to the shelter for deliveries, service vehicles and
private cars. The slope of the site should be used to provide easy water drainage of
kennel areas. The kennels should be placed to benefit from the sun, but not be placed
directly West. The observation and quarantine rooms should be placed opposite the
prevalent winds to prevent contagious diseases from spreading. Existing natural
landscaping and trees should not be disturbed and planned for around the shelter.
Water is the highest necessity for a shelter, rain collecting systems and/or waste-water
filtering proposals should be encouraged.
BUILDING When deciding the layout of your shelter, preventing the spread of disease must be your
PROGRAM first priority. Incoming animals must be quarantined away from animals that are ready for
adoption. Isolation and quarantine areas must not be accessible to the general public.
Animal Shelter Plans
STAFF AND PUBLIC SPACES
The following are minimum proposed areas.
Staten Island Animal
Shelter
1) RECEPTION AREA: You must consider every procedure and activity regularly
undertaken here, including the traffic flow of people using this area. The reception area
should give a good first impression and will therefore need to communicate a sense of
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order, and be light and clean …………………………………………………………… 20 m
2) ADMINISTRATIVE OFFICE: This is the control center for the shelter, and it should
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have direct access both to the reception area and the animal quarters …...………. 20 m
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3) ADOPTION AREA: An area for families to meet the dog to be adopted …......… 20 m
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4) VOLUNTEERS'OFFICE ……………………………………………………………… 12 m
5) MEDICAL ROOM: This should be adjacent to the isolation/quarantine facility to allow
the easy movement of sick and recovering animals. There should be a separate
entrance from outside and clear access for vehicles. There should be a separate
ventilation system for this area, and there should be isolation units that prevent any
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physical contact between animals………………………...……………………………. 50 m
6) OPERATING ROOM: This area will require enough space for one large table, a
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sterilization area, a sink with hot and cold water and medical storage cabinets ..… 16 m
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7) OBSERVATION ROOM: This area is to observe sick and recovering dogs ..…10 m
8) ANIMAL FOOD PREPARATION: This area will require a sink with hot and cold
running water and a refrigerator. You should ensure that there is an area to disinfect
feeding bowls, and that you have sufficient counter space on which to place the bowls.
The food storage should be adjacent, and all food should be stored off the floor in
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vermin-proof containers………………………………………………………………….. 30 m
9) STAFF OFFICES: Two offices, a kitchenette and a resting room should be provided
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for the staff………………………………………………………………………………. 40 m
10) HYGIENE AREA: Staff will require a wash area and toilets, together with a shower
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area ………………………………………………………………………………………. 12 m
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11) CAFÉ with kitchen ………………………………...………………………….…….. 50 m
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12) MULTI-PURPOSE HALL for events of your selection …………………………. 200 m
ANIMAL SPACES
The following are spaces with minimum standards. These spaces can be arranged
within a single double-height space.
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Placer Island Animal
Shelter
Hale County Animal
Shelter
Green Animal Shelter
Design
1) INDIVIDUAL KENNELS: Each dog should have a minimum of 2m covered and
draft-free accommodation. It should have a 1m x 1m raised bed surface made of
wood. The minimum temperature is 10C and the maximum is 26C. Sleeping quarters
must be naturally ventilated and have both natural and supplementary light.
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……………………………………………………………………………………………. 300 m
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Each dog requires a minimum of 2.5 – 3.5 m of open exercise run. Fencing should
be at least 2m high and be made of weld mesh. It should slope inwards at the top to
stop dogs climbing. Animals must always have a view outside the kennel.
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……………………………………………………………………………………………. 450 m
There should be doors provided between the kennels and the outdoor runs. These
doors should be operable from both sides. Feeding and watering the dogs should be
planned so that a worker with his hands full can provide the food and water without the
risk of any dog escaping the kennel. Visual barriers should be planned to prevent
excess barking when the dogs are being moved from the indoor kennels to the exercise
runs.
2) GROUP HOUSING: Minimum space requirements for dogs in group housing are the
same as in individual kennels per dog.
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3) QUARANTINE KENNELS: Housing for contagious dogs.……………….……….. 20 m
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4) NURSING MOTHERS AND PUPPIES KENNEL ...………………………….……. 35 m
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5) DOG WASH AREA: This is a wet surface area to wash and dry dogs …………. 12 m
* FLOORS: To guard against infection, all floors should have a smooth impervious
surface e.g. tiles. Concrete can be used if it is hardened and treated to be impervious.
In outside areas, gravel flooring is preferable to grass or earth, but must be thoroughly
washed frequently. Wood is not advised as it deteriorates and paving is also difficult to
keep clean.
* WALLS: These should be sealed e.g. with chlorinated rubber paint, so that they can
be properly cleaned. There should be no gaps or cracks that can harbor disease.
* DRAINAGE: Floors should slope towards a drain that is outside the animal living
areas. Kennels should have a mild slope of 2-4% and be provided with an open gutter
system (20-30 cm width, 15-20cm depth) at the lower end to provide for easy cleanup.
SERVICE SPACES
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Loading/Service Entrance Area …………………………………………………………40 m
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Laundry …………………………………………………………………………………… 20 m
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Area for Water Storage Tank ………………………………………………………….…20 m
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Area for Lime Pit ……………………………………………………………………..….. 12 m
Restrooms ………………………………………………………………………………... (AR)
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Storage ……………………………………………………………………………..…….. 12 m
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Mechanical room for the whole complex ……………………………………………… 20 m
Circulation ……….……………….……………...…. %20 of the total enclosed floor area
OUTDOORS
Parking …………………………………………………………………………………..…. (AR)
2 spaces for staff, 8 spaces for visitors and 2 bays for larger service vehicles. The
vehicular access for contagious dogs should be separate.
Landscaping
Including outdoor paths, courtyards, planting, outdoor furniture, etc. It requires
sensitivity in terms of disabled accessibility, as well as natural and environmental
context
Note: The total enclosed area can be %10 bigger or smaller than the required. Each
building should have an eave height of max. 7 m. from the entrance level.
SCHEDULE
7 April Tuesday Field Trip to Urla & Güzelbahçe Shelter Facilities
10 April Friday Presentation by FKÖ and LB & Mass Model
14 April Tuesday Presentation by BP & Site Development Plan
17 April Friday Schematic Drawings & Sketch Model
21 April Tuesday Presentation by BK & Bubble Diagram
24 April Friday Development Model & Orthographic Drawings
28 April Tuesday Mid-Review
01 May Friday Holiday
05 May Tuesday Presentation by FKÖ, Revised Development Model & Orthographic Drawings
08 May Friday Crits on Revised Development Model & Orthographic Drawings
12 May Tuesday Presentation by HC, Site and Landscaping Drawings
15 May Friday Presentation by ÖG, Crits on Presentation Model & Drawings
19 May Tuesday Holiday
22 May Friday Crits on Presentation Model & Drawings
02 June Tuesday Submission
03 June Wednesday Final Review
DESIGN PROCESS You have started your design process with a field trip in which you have analyzed your
building site and its surrounding context by means of sketches, photographs and notes.
In the first week, you will use these analyses to improve design strategies on how to
response to this context by means of diagrams, schemes and sketch models. In the
following weeks, you will master the requirements of the project in terms of user needs,
site conditions, spatial planning, circulation as well as formal and structural explorations
by means of 2D/3D drawings and development models. After these preliminary studies,
you will work mainly on detailing your design decisions, and finally developing
presentation drawings and models.
Each of these studies and explorations will be conducted as daily tasks given in studio
hours. Please accomplish and benefit from each studio task to improve your design.
Lectures on animal shelters, context and presentation techniques will hopefully enrich
your design process. Do not forget that you must attend each critique with a print-out of
your work even if you are using CAD. Instructors will not comment on schemes on
computer screens in this project. Coming prepared to studio and bringing drawing and
model making materials is compulsory.
OBJECTIVES  Observe and utilize qualities of material, form, structure and space in a local context
to inform design process
 Apply an advanced understanding of structural types (wall, column/plate and frame)
to form and space-making
 Develop design ideas to response to the existing context
 Develop an architectural scheme for a complex building program
 Demonstrate an increased ability to use traditional and digital means to investigate
and show design ideas and intentions
EVALUATION  Ability to craft and clearly represent, and articulate your architectural ideas through
drawings, models, and through verbal and written expression
 Comprehensiveness of design decisions, clarity, thoughtfulness, and level of detail
shown in the representations
 Ability to identify and utilize the characteristics of structure to control and make space
 Use of formal and spatial opportunities provided by the site environment
 Development and improvement of architectural design through a multi-staged design
process
REFERENCES  Guidelines for the Design and Management of Animal Shelters.
http://www.icam-coalition.org/downloads/Shelter%20guidelines.pdf
 Design for Shelter Animals in a No-Kill World, Maddie's Fund,
http://maddiesfund.org/design-for-shelter-animals.htm
 Neufert, E., Architects’ Data, Oxford, Blackwell Publishing, 1983.
 Tutt, P. and D. Adler, eds., New Metric Handbook, Butterworth Architecture, London
and others, 1988.
REQUIREMENTS  1/500 Site Plan and Site Section(s) (showing your contextual approach)
 1/100 Plans, Sections (at least two) and Elevations (all)
 1/200 Final Model (composed of built-up thickness of laminated cardboard, gesso
painted foam core, balsa or other materials)
 1/200 Study Models made of cardboard, foam core, or other materials (these should
provide a quick and efficient way to develop your volumetric ideas)
 3D Drawings (Perspectives, Isometric or Oblique Drawings)
 1/500 Analytical diagrams in axonometric or orthographic views showing Mass/Void,
Circulation, Served/Servant, Public/Private, Structure, etc.
Note: Drawings will be either digital print-outs or hand-drawings. It is also expected that
your final presentation layout represents your project at a high level of designerly quality.
Final presentation format and additional requirements will be announced.