Faculty of Architecture and Design

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An empirical study of visual comfort in office buildings
(Springer, 2021) Tekçe, Işılay; Artan, D.; Ergen, E.; Interior Architecture and Environmental Design; TEKÇE, Işılay
Visual comfort is an important indicator of both occupant satisfaction and work performance. The main goal of this study is to present the visual comfort-related factors that influence occupant satisfaction. To achieve this goal, a detailed literature analysis was conducted to determine the main factors that can be used to evaluate the effect of visual comfort on the satisfaction of office workers. Afterward, interviews were conducted with 12 facility managers, and related work orders created by the facility management teams were investigated to determine visual comfort-related complaint types. Based on the collected data, a hierarchical structure of visual comfort factors was created. Finally, 308 office workers were surveyed to determine (1) the number of respondents with complaints related to each visual comfort factor, (2) the level of importance of the visual comfort related factors, and (3) office worker’s satisfaction levels for each factor. The findings reveal that the largest gap between the perceived importance and satisfaction appears in daylighting and visual privacy. The designers, facility managers, and renovators need to think of design strategies to provide more privacy and access to daylight to occupants in their working environments.
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Influence of office building design on occupant satisfaction
(IOP Publishing, 2022) Artan, D.; Ergen, E.; Tekçe, Işılay; Yılmaz, N.; Interior Architecture and Environmental Design; TEKÇE, Işılay
The objective of this study is to examine the influence of building design on office occupants by analysing empirical data on their satisfaction levels and prevalent complaints. A methodology involving literature review, expert interviews, and a field survey with 308 office employees was adopted to acquire the empirical data. The findings reveal that office occupants think Amount of Space as the most important parameter, followed by Layout, and Furniture. On the other hand, occupants are least satisfied by Amount of Space, followed by Interior Design and Layout. Insufficient social areas, insufficient work space, and layout of the work environment, distraction caused by human circulation due to office layout, and ergonomics of the furniture are the most common complaints. The results show that average importance level in each building design parameter is higher than or equal to the average satisfaction level. The largest gap between the perceived importance and satisfaction appears in Amount of Space and Layout. The results are expected to provide insight to designers, facility managers, and renovators of office buildings on how office occupants perceive office building design and frequent complaints encountered in the offices.
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The Kyrenia castle, an approach to digital documentation in the Cyprus island
(Museen der Stadt Wien–Stadtarchäologie, Vienna, 2018) Bertocci, S.; Verdiani, G.; Camiz, Alessandro; Ceylanlı, Zeynep; Şevketoğlu, M.; Interior Architecture and Environmental Design; Architecture; Börner, W.; Uhlirz, S.; CAMIZ, Alessandro; CEYLANLI, Zeynep
Documenting large architectures with an accurate survey has recently become possible even with a limited budget. Digital survey tools based on both active and passive solutions, offers today versatile opportunities for the architectural documentation, regardless of the building’s dimension. This paper presents the poster, prepared for the CHNT conference, with an extract of Terrestrial and Aerial Photogrammetry and Terrestrial Lasergrammetry. This was used by academics in the context of the Kyrenia Castle in the Cyprus Island, a large medieval fortification organized in an almost square planimetry with a side of about 150 meters and walls height up to about 30 meters, gathering the occasion of a specific workshop (activated for one week in May 2018) and producing the first (partial) digital model of this large built heritage. Following the protocols and best practice in digital documentation of this kind of architectures – the coordinator group of the workshop in synergy with the management unit of the museum hosted in the castle- has brought on an articulated experience moving from the morphology of the castle, to its stratigraphy, to its exhibition aspects, to its restoration issues, to the production of multimedia contents for technical and/or general public access. In that poster it was presented the structure of the workshop, the structure of the survey, the interactions and integrations between different surveys, the system of tools, and the results coming out at first, from the on-field operations brought on by the students participating to the workshop and the following processing operated by technical expert operators; going on to the development of common digital bases to evolve the way of approach to these monumental structures. To present the complete workflow with samples the poster was enriched with QR-Code links to online resources has been made to be a useful base for sharing and discussing the whole set of activities completed on this subject.
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Modelling information flow of occupant feedback in office buildings
(International Association for Automation and Robotics in Construction, 2018) Artan, D.; Dönmez, D.; Tekçe, Işılay; Ergen, E.; Interior Architecture and Environmental Design; TEKÇE, Işılay
Occupant comfort plays an important role in office buildings in terms of environmental, social, and economic aspects. Facility managers need to evaluate occupant feedback to moderate the negative consequences on office users and ultimately on the corporations that occupy office spaces. However, in the current facility management systems, occupant feedback is not effectively collected and evaluated; thus, facility managers cannot utilize this information in making critical decisions when operating, maintaining and retrofitting office facilities. This paper presents the initial results of an ongoing research study, which focus es on integrating occupant feedback with Building Information Model (BIM) for assisting decision-makers in the facility management phase. The first step of this research study was to identify the information items that are required to represent occupant feedback for effective use in the facility management phase. To identify the required information items, interviews were performed with office users at ten office buildings and use cases were developed. To validate the use cases, interviews were performed with twelve facility managers. The aim of this paper is to present a sample of the use cases developed and describe the occupant feedback information flow observed in the office buildings. The results show that the occupant feedback data include detailed information related to: (1) location where the problem is observed, which is represented by building, and/or floor, and/or room, and/or façade, and/or table/zone/region depending on the case; (2) location of the user, that is represented by building, floor, room, table/zone/region; (3) source of the problem that is represented by type of building element and related building element; (4) source location, which specifies the location of a problem source that is different than the location where the problem is observed; and (5) time.
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Od miasta zwartego do miasta krajobrazowego: GIS i AR dla budowy spoleczności GZM. From the compact city to the landscape city: GIS and AR for the construction of the GZM community,
(Wydawnictwo Politechniki Śląskiej, Gliwice, 2023) Camiz, Alessandro; Architecture; Bradecki, T.; Kafka, K.; Ludwig, J.; Mól, B.; CAMIZ, Alessandro
Tomasz Bradecki and his students in this research have explored successfully both, the city, or perhaps we should say the metropolitan area, and the tools to represent, analyse and share the built environment through immersive technologies. Within the technologies experimented we should mention the use of open source software, such a QGIS (today a standard for GIS research) in order to create density MODELS OF THE STRUCTURE OF THE GZM METROPOLIS, and the use of AR in order to share those results with a wider community.
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Photogrammetric model optimization in digitalization of architectural heritage: Yedikule fortress
(International Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing, 2023-06-24) Sancak, N.; Uzun, F.; Turhan, Kartal; Saraoǧlu Yumni, H. K.; Özer, D.K.; Interior Architecture and Environmental Design; TURHAN, Kartal
The idea of "digitalization of architectural heritage"has recently gained prominence to represent architectural and historical assets. With all these potentials, this study aims to create optimized models that can be used in serious gaming environments by presenting a method of photogrammetry. As a case study, Yedikule Fortress and its surroundings, which have a multi-layered structure that includes many cultural aspects such as Byzantine, Ottoman, and Republican periods in the historical process, have been studied within the scope of digitizing the architectural heritage to create an optimized model for gaming environments. The study was methodologically constructed in three phases: Photogrammetry, polygon modeling, and low poly/high poly baking process. The fortress and its surroundings are modeled using a high-detail point cloud and a high-poly mesh using aerial photogrammetry. The high-poly model was taken as a reference and transferred into a low-poly model as a mesh map, texture, and light characteristics. This allowed the high poly model to operate more efficiently and effectively in game engines. As a result, the study created a detailed and optimized model for the game engines to produce serious games specific to light and texture data, to be used on devices that support mixed reality (MR) technologies.
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The use of parametric mapping as an analysis method in contextual design studio
(Proceedings of SiGRaDi, 2022) Şahin, Murat; Ağırbaş, Aslı; Kaynar, Hilal; Architecture; ŞAHİN, Murat; AĞIRBAŞ, Aslı; KAYNAR, Hilal
This paper is discussed an experimental study carried out in the undergraduate Contextual Design Studio (CDS). The studio comprises four stages: Site Analysis Phase, Conceptual Design Studies, Design Development Phase, and Final Presentation. The site analysis stage lasts for about four weeks,10 hours a week in the studio. Particular importance is given to this part of the project so that students have a chance to gain different perspectives on multiple meanings of context and, more specifically, the historical, social and physical context of the the neighborhood. Besides conventional mapping and representation techniques and tools, some new design tools have been introduced in the studio, one of which was this experimental study in question. The study aims at the integration of the Parametric Mapping techniques, at a basic level, into the site analysis process in the contextual design studio to provide an entry point to thinking through the tool used for the students. In this term, the method of abstracting site features through Parametric Mapping was used in the site analysis process and the effect of this form-oriented data on the concepts of the projects was interpreted. NudiBranch, an add-on to the Grasshopper program, was used in the Parametric Mapping workshop. Students' works were discussed briefly with the help of some representative instances.

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