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Rural gentrification of the ancient city of Assos (Behramkale) in Turkey
(Elsevier, 2021-10)Behramkale, also known as the ancient city of Assos, has gained considerable national and international visibility after its declaration as an Archaeological site in 1982 and later in 2000 as Urban Archaeological site. The ... -
Searching ‘Italianità’ in the Dodecanese Islands (1912-1943). Some considerations on Art, Architecture and Archeology through the works of Hermes Balducci
(Firenze University Press, 2022)The rediscovery and promotion of fourteen islands in the Aegean Sea – renamed the Dodecanese Islands – annexed to Italy as a military possession while formally under the dominion of the Ottomans, might be considered another ... -
An investigation of occupant energy-saving behavior in vernacular houses of behramkale (Assos)
(MDPI, 2021-12-06)Despite its well-known potential to reduce energy use, the inquiry of whether vernacular architecture prompts its occupants to have energy-saving behavior has been neglected. This paper aims to investigate the influence ... -
Multi-criteria decision making for city-scale infrastructure of post-earthquake assembly areas: Case study of Istanbul
(Elsevier, 2022-01)Assembly areas are first gathering places after earthquakes, and provide temporary sheltering. However if these areas have greater risks after earthquakes, they become more deadly. Current studies commonly look for evacuation ... -
A user detective adaptive facade towards improving visual and thermal comfort
(Elsevier, 2021-01)Adaptive skins and, in particular, adaptive façade play a significant role in the future of environmentally friendly spaces. Meanwhile, occupants' involvement in the process of adaptive façade design and operation is ... -
A research by design strategy for climate adaptation solutions: Implementation in the low-density, high flood risk context of the lake district, UK
(MDPI, 2021-11)The purpose of this paper is to propose a research by design strategy, focusing on the generation of innovative climate adaptation solutions by utilizing the Design Thinking Process. The proposed strategy has been developed ... -
The album of the world emperor: Cross-cultural collecting and the art of album-making in seventeenth-century Istanbul
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Occupants' migration in residential buildings towards comfort and energy efficiency (case of traditional residential architecture in Iran)
(Springer, 2021-03-17)Recently, the role of occupants' behaviors on building energy efficiency has been much more taken into account. Occupants' migration on a building scale is a phrase on which this article focuses as one of the best occupants' ... -
Istanbul: The city as an urban palimpsest
(Elsevier, 2021-05)The metropolitan cities of the world continue to grow rapidly with their dynamic, mostly chaotic features that perpetually contain randomness, notwithstanding their specific differences. These inevitably constantly changing ... -
Cyclical inversion of limits and centres: the formation process of the Regio quartadecima, Constantinople
(University of Strathclyde Publishing, 2022)The paper reconstructs the topography of Constantinople’s fourteenth region (regio XIV) applying the urban morphology analysis methods (Caniggia and Maffei, 1979) and the attractors’ theory (Camiz, 2018) to the fragmentary ... -
The typological plan of Zaragoza for the typological process of the medieval city
(University of Strathclyde Publishing, 2022)Studies on the formation process of building types delineate a long term transition in the form of the city. The findings of the excavations done in Palmyra and Bet Shean have revealed that the transition from the late ... -
Reversing the design process in the introductory architectural design studio: The exploratory function of sketch modelling
(Intellect Ltd., 2022-04-01)This study investigated the exploratory potentials of sketch modelling in the introductory architectural design studio. It focused on the course ‘ARCH 102 Architectural Design Studio I’, in which sketch modelling was ... -
Perceptual processes of children regarding their nearby home environments living in two socially diverse subcommunities
(ASCE, 2022-05-03)Human life that is collective and diverse on the one hand, but complex and chaotic on the other, is largely experienced in metropolitan cities owing to a significant amount of migration. Istanbul can be defined as a city ... -
Modelli progettuali del locus fratrum predicatorum: Ravenna (1269). Design models of the locus fratrum predicatorum: Ravenna (1269)
(Steinhäuser Verlag, Wuppertal, 2021)On March the 2nd 1269 Philip from Pistoia, archbishop of Ravenna, in presence of a large group of persons, ordered the commune of Ravenna to assign a substantial urban area for the construction of the church, the convent ... -
La partizione iugerale del suolo agricolo per il progetto del paesaggio archeologico degli acquedotti Aniensi
(Edizioni Istituto Alcide Cervi, Gattatico (RE), 2020)Here we present an example of circular subsidiarity applied to cultural heritage: it is a research launched as an action of the Agenda 21 of the Province of Rome and later developed as an experimentation of participation ... -
The analysis of a paediatric treatment environment in the context of nurses' and companions’ behaviours through space syntax and behaviour maps
(2021-12-02)Pediatric treatment environments are settings that should be designed in a child-centered spatial manner that treats the child as a holistic entity with his/her physical, cognitive, social, and psychological needs. According ... -
Exploring perceived openness and spaciousness: the effects of semantic and physical aspects
(Taylor & Francis Online, 2022-02)This study focuses on the effects of the independent spatial variables of volumetric visibility, natural light, and the infinity index value on both perceived openness and spaciousness, and on the concept of familiarity, using ... -
Interrelation between grid systems and star polygons of muqarnas ground projection plans
(Springer, 2022-01-21)Many muqarnas ground projection plans contain stars with unequal edge lengths in their compositions. In this study, the geometric reasons behind the unequality of star edge lengths in muqarnas ground projection plans have ... -
An experimental framework for designing a parametric design course
(2021-12)Architectural forms, architectural knowledge, design process, and design thinking are all changing with the use of computer-aided design programmes, and even traditional university architecture departments now wish to teach ... -
A teaching methodology on the combination of architectural tradition and parametric design: A case study with birdhouses
(Intellect, 2022-01-01)Birdhouses were produced in Anatolia from the thirteenth century to the nineteenth century, each with period-specific features. The Industrial Revolution’s call for efficiency however, mandated that birdhouses were no ...
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