EXAMINATION OF CAMPUS IN TERMS OF ECOLOGICAL LANDSCAPE DESIGN CRITERIA: KTU KANUNI CAMPUS

Today's cities face many problems, such as excessive population growth, environmental pollution, transportation, housing, economy, climate change, and natural disasters due to rapid urbanization. Due to these problems, the nature-human relationship in cities is also deteriorating. To regulate this relationship, it is necessary to create healthy and livable cities by integrating practical resources, energy, and water use with nature. At this point, ecological design criteria emerge in urban planning. Ecological design criteria create nature-friendly designs within the city. By providing energy and resource conservation in urban areas, it creates spaces that are close to nature and climate-friendly. At this point, many areas are suitable for ecological design in cities. University campuses are also suitable places for determining and implementing ecological design criteria. Campuses are areas where academic activities are carried out and also offer essential living spaces where environmental sustainability can be ensured. Therefore, campuses must be designed in line with ecological criteria to create a model for city centers. At this point, one of the campuses that is ecologically self-sufficient produces and uses its energy and offers sustainable solutions to increasing environmental problems, which is examined within the scope of the study. Thus, the KTÜ Kanuni campus, located within the borders of Trabzon City, was selected as the study area. The current situation of the study area was evaluated according to ecological design criteria. Thus, the importance of how much university campuses' current potential contributes to a city's sustainability and ecology was emphasized.