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Enhancing sustainability benefits through green retrofitting of healthcare buildings
(IOP Publishing, 2020) Ergin, A.; Tekçe, Işılay; Interior Architecture and Environmental Design; TEKÇE, Işılay
Green retrofitting practices have critical importance in both the construction industry (CI) and healthcare industry (HI) due to the adverse effects of the existing healthcare buildings on both the environment and public health. Ironically, existing healthcare buildings consume critical amounts of energy, produce wastes, and CO2 emissions, which have considerable diverse harmful impacts on the health and well-being of the society as well as the environment. Especially, given the main goals of healthcare, green retrofitting is crucial to provide a healthy future for patients and staff of healthcare buildings. There is a sensitive link between providing sustainable healthcare buildings with improving health of the patients. Therefore, green retrofitting of healthcare buildings (GRHB) can be seen as one of the significant contributors that have a critical role in reducing the harmful impacts of the existing healthcare buildings. Nowadays, due to coronavirus pandemic, nations will focus on the physical conditions of their healthcare buildings more than ever for strengthening their infrastructure with appropriate retrofitting approaches. Therefore, the worldwide concerns put the prominence of the importance of patient safety and strong health infrastructure on the agenda of nations. Improvements in the health infrastructure are inevitable for the future, and with regarding this motivation, we looked at the benefits of GRHB in the first place. In the existing literature, there is a lack of comprehensive review associated with the GRHB. This paper focuses on conducting a systematic literature review to investigate the benefits of GRHB with selected academic studies. After the identification of healthcare and green retrofitting specific studies, the benefits of GRHB were determined by frequency analysis and classified under four dimensions, which are environmental, economic, social, and functional. Results demonstrated that reduced energy consumption, reduced costs, and improved energy performance of the building are the three major benefits. In terms of healthcare perspective, the critical outcomes of this study as the main benefits differ from other types of green retrofitting projects, which are improved infection control and improved recovery rate. The results of this systematic review will enhance the understanding of the importance of GRHB and its benefits, which will be useful for academics, green building professionals as well as healthcare building providers.
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Rule-based rationalization of form: learning by computational making
(Springer Nature, 2020-07) Yazıcı, Sevil; Interior Architecture and Environmental Design; YAZICI, Sevil
Digital design and fabrication tools obtain constraints affecting creativity in conceptual design phase. There is a necessity to have a better understanding of issues related to the rationalization process of form, material and fabrication. The objective of this paper is to integrate analogue craft into architectural design studio that can be applicable into various educational setups, in order to increase the algorithmic thinking skills of students, before giving tutorials on the software tools and digital fabrication techniques. The Rule-based Rationalization of Form (RRF) was implemented as a task for a mobile unit design through computational making. The research methodology of RRF consists of four stages, including specifying the design constraints and the rules; the design of the components and the overall form; making the large-scale mock-up; and process evaluation. It was implemented to the second year undergraduate architectural design studios from Fall 2014 to 2016. The data were collected by the process analysis and questionnaire applied to the participants. The output studies were grouped in three, as Modular, Folding and Biomimetic design systems, based on the geometrical characteristics and organizational principles applied in the process. In the light of research objective, algorithmic thinking skills of students were developed through analogue craft, as well as participants obtained a better understanding of issues related to the rationalization process of form, material and fabrication, by testing relationships between the geometry, tools and the materials.
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A parametric landscape urbanism method: The search for an optimal solution
(ITU, 2016) Yazıcı, Sevil; Interior Architecture and Environmental Design; YAZICI, Sevil
Through ecological awareness, different methods have been investigated to explore the relationship between nature and design. Additionally, digital techniques and methods have begun to dominate all fields of professions, including design disciplines. Landscape is an integral part of a city’s public domain. The concept of Landscape Urbanism prioritizes landscape over building design in urban planing through the use of advanced digital techniques. Although there are studies and projects in this field, they lack a method that can be implemented for the organizational principles of a masterplan and the distribution of green-areas by creating iterations. A parametric landscape urbanism method has been developed and applied as the concept of a self-sufficient micro-nation located in Europe. The methodology uses principles that consist of three stages: defining the site’s constraints, generating computational geometry, and the optimization process, which uses evolutionary algorithms. As a result, a solution space is generated by creating iterations for green area distribution and determining their green area ratios. The method can potentially be applied to other site domains and optimization problems.
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Mind the T-Square: Mindfulness-Based stress reduction for design students and its modes of action on studio performance and critique anxiety
(Common Ground Research Networks, 2020) Ceylanlı, Zeynep; Engin, E.; Uluengin, M. B.; Interior Architecture and Environmental Design; CEYLANLI, Zeynep
This study investigates the effects of mindfulness-based stress reduction (MBSR) on the studio performance and critique anxiety of design students. Nine interior architecture students in their fourth year at a private university in Istanbul, Turkey, were recruited for the study. Qualitative data related to their perceived stress levels as well as studio performance were collected both during and after a standard, eight-week MBSR program. The data were then coded and analyzed per the principles of grounded theory, until thematic saturation was reached. The results show that MBSR has the potential to improve students’ studio performance as well as their well-being in general. Over the eight weeks of MBSR intervention, study participants observed a steady reduction in their stress and anxiety levels, better focus on design problems, a motivation to work more, a reduction in seeking perfectionism, having obsessive thoughts, and indulging in self-censoring, better sleep patterns, as well as less fatigue and chronic pain.
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Branding ‘New Istanbul’s’ residential real estate: A thematic analysis of residential real estate ads for ‘Canal Istanbul’ and environs
(Slovak Academy of Sciences, Institute of History, 2022) Uluengin, Demet Mutman; Uluengin, M. B.; Ceylanlı, Zeynep; Interior Architecture and Environmental Design; Architecture; ULUENGİN, Demet Mutman; CEYLANLI, Zeynep
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Collaborative design of an active learning classroom with high school students and teachers
(Emerald Publishing Limited, 2020-04-30) Kepez, O.; Üst, Selin; Interior Architecture and Environmental Design; ÜST, Selin
Purpose - The aim of this study is to understand classroom settings desired by high school students and teachers in an active learning classroom. The research question is whether students and teachers will differ from each other when designing an active learning classroom. Design/methodology/approach - In an effort to design a learning environment for an advanced placement programme, action research methodology was followed by conducting a participatory workshop in a real active learning classroomwith future users. Working in isolation fromone another, students and teachers designed their own classrooms by forming different learning centres. During the study, two groups, made up of ten high school students and seven teachers, respectively, were asked to arrange the furniture in an active learning classroom. The groups were free to form as many furniture arrangement configurations as they wished and were asked to write about their workshop experiences afterwards. Once they had completed both tasks, their plan layouts were examined. Findings - All of the plan layoutswere found to fall into one of three categories: a traditional layout, a small group layout or a single large group layout. The written texts were also analysed, which revealed different perspectives of each participating group. As students and teachers explore different learning opportunities, they appear to be driven by different kinds of experiences when they endeavour to organize their classrooms. Originality/value - Never before has an active learning classroom been the site for a participatory furniture arrangement workshop that employs teachers and students.
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Material-based computational design (MCD) in sustainable architecture
(Elsevier, 2020-11) Yazıcı, Sevil; Tanacan, L.; Interior Architecture and Environmental Design; YAZICI, Sevil
Today material is the driving force in architectural design processes run by Computational Design (CD). The architect may lead the design process and its outputs by analysing material type and properties, as well as constraints, at the beginning of the process. This article reviews the state of the art in Material-based Computational Design (MCD) and aims to analyse the role of materials in efficient and sustainable MCD processes. A set of critical projects developed over the past decade have been selected and grouped based on how material is incorporated into the process. In the process, three main categories are identified namely, Material Performance, Informed Materials and Programming Materials. Based on predefined criteria on efficiency (E) and sustainability (S) in architectural design processes, the projects are analysed to calculate their E + S ratings. The analysis identifies two principal approaches implemented in MCD. One focuses on integrating material properties with other critical parameters including form, performance and fabrication. The other concerns enhancing material properties by designing new materials. The analysis verifies that MCD generates both efficient and sustainable design solutions. By using CD in architectural design processes, existing materials can be reinterpreted and innovative materials can be produced to achieve new spatial experiences and meanings.
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Landscape characteristics and main plant species of floristic composition of Doğanbey old village in Aydın
(Istanbul Univ-Cerrahpasa, 2022-01) Güngör, Beyza Şat; Interior Architecture and Environmental Design; ŞAT, Beyza
Doganbey old village is a historic rural settlement that is located in the national park of Dilek Peninsula Buyuk Menderes Delta. The village reflects rural and unique landscape characteristics and units with both natural and human-influenced elements. The aim of this study is to determine floristic composition of the village and to confirm landscape characteristics by field study. As the methodology; empirical analyses were implemented to determine rural landscape characteristic units and plant species identification at the site. Both native and cultural plant species of the village were determined at the site. Results support the uniqueness of the village with its endemic plant species and its rural habitat. In conclusion; touristic potential of the village should be highlighted with a pro- environmental approach, and future implication or development plans should consider biodiversity conservation from the aspect of sustainability of the village.
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A study on relations between soil and plant species in alpine zone at Kazdaği National Park, Turkey
(Pakistan Botanical Society, 2013-12) Güngör, Beyza Şat; Interior Architecture and Environmental Design; ŞAT, Beyza
This study examines the plant species distribution and cover abundance scales relations with soil and other environmental factors such as elevation, exposure, slope in the alpine region. 10 sample areas were determined for experimental field study in the alpine region. Plant species and their cover abundance scales and 0-5 and 5-15cm soil depth analysis were conducted in the field study. C, N, pH, soil salinity, soil texture, C/N and CaCO3 (%) were determined in soil laboratory analysis. To examine the effect of land use by the local people; sample areas were determined both on used area and non-used area in the alpine region.
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Modernist landscapes of Ankara
(Informa Group Company, 2016-05) Turan, Burcu Yiğit; Interior Architecture and Environmental Design; YİĞİT TURAN, Burcu
Following the collapse of the Ottoman Empire, Mustafa Kemal and the Kemalist revolutionaries believed that the new Turkey should be a ‘modern’ democracy and also a ‘green’ country in line with positivist science and modernist culture. In this context, the landscapes of Republican Ankara would become an experimental field for this Turkish nation-building and modernization. This article traces the development of modernist landscape ideology during the early Republican Era in Turkey and its translation by planner and architect Hermann Jansen into detailed design ideas for Ankara. It illustrates the interaction between Jansen’s cutting-edge social and landscape architectural ideas and the Anatolian landscapes after the First World War. Finally, it more widely defends the value of the fantasized and partly realized modernist landscapes of Ankara as part of the urban collective memory in Turkey and the modernist cultural heritage.