Today's architects must be proficient in the majority of tools associated with construction, building, and design creation. Due to the increasing rapidness and complexity of software development, architects must innovate and modify their working methodologies. In addition, architecture students must possess software skills, thus they are taught actual software whose primary function is to facilitate the creation of a design by applying their knowledge of design with structure. Innovative structural design with topology optimization is a cutting-edge method for utilizing digital architecture. In many instances, there is a disparity between the vision of the architect and the sensibility of the engineer, as well as between the aesthetic or appearance of the structure and its corresponding skeleton. Form is the domain of the architect, while function is the responsibility of the engineer. However, both architects and engineers are typically concerned with "function," even if in very different ways. Topology optimization is a technique that maximizes the structural performance of a system by optimizing material placement within a specific design space, a specific set of loads, boundary conditions, and constraints. If the topology optimization method is taught alongside conventional methods during structural design studies at the beginning of architectural education, a model of education that is more in line with contemporary technological approaches can be provided. In this study, parametric design and topology optimization methods were taught in the 2nd term architectural design studio training course's staircase design study for the development of students' structural comprehension. This technique, which is relatively difficult for a second-semester student, has given them the ability to apply a variety of tools.