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Master Thesis Optimization of Energy Consumption and Thermal Comfort in Historic Buildings: Case Study of İzmir National Library Building, Türkiye(01. Izmir Institute of Technology, 2023) Durmuş Arsan, Zeynep; Gökçen Akkurt, Gülden; Durmuş Arsan, Zeynep; Gökçen Akkurt, Gülden; 02.02. Department of Architecture; 03.06. Department of Energy Systems Engineering; 03. Faculty of Engineering; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology; 02. Faculty of ArchitectureThe 'library,' as a building type, is the visiting space of researchers and storage space of wisdom of past and present thinkers. Historic libraries host unique pieces of cultural heritage such as books, manuscripts, documents, maps, artifacts, paintings, sculptures, and frescos from the previous generations. The thesis aims to reduce energy consumption and improve occupants' comfort while paying attention to degradation risks of paper-based collections in the historic İzmir National Library Building, Türkiye. Thus, it examines building retrofit actions with different impact criteria and conducts the optimization tool to define the most optimal ones. First, three degradation risk assessment procedures were determined for the paper-based collections of the İzmir National Library Building. Within the scope of the thesis, the library building was monitored between 01.10.2016 - 01.10.2017. According to the results of the monitoring process, mechanical, chemical and biological degradation risk analyzes were carried out. The digital simulation model of İzmir National Library was prepared in DesignBuilder v. 7.0.0.102 software and calibrated monthly for a year via hourly air temperature data. Three retrofit optimization scenarios, i.e. neutral, low and high risk impact criteria, were defined by grouping different design variables such as glazing type, exterior door material, pitched roof floor construction, exterior wall construction, heating set point and cooling set point of HVAC system. The objective of optimization was reducing energy consumption and discomfort hours at the same time. The simulation results showed that all three retrofit actions reduced energy consumption and discomfort hours. Scenario 3 was the most successful among other scenarios, providing energy savings by 26.6% and reducing discomfort hours by 80.3%, according to the base case. Besides, there was no significant change in the degradation risk analyzes according to the base case.Master Thesis Adaptive Thermal Comfort Analysis of Historic Mosque: the Case Study of Salepçioğlu Mosque, Izmir, Turkey(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2016) Bughrara, Khaled S. M.; Durmuş Arsan, Zeynep; Gökçen Akkurt, Gülden; Durmuş Arsan, Zeynep; Gökçen Akkurt, Gülden; 02.02. Department of Architecture; 03.06. Department of Energy Systems Engineering; 03. Faculty of Engineering; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology; 02. Faculty of ArchitectureMosques differ from other types of buildings by having intermittent operation schedule. Due to five prayer times per day throughout the year, mosques are fully or partially, yet periodically, occupied. Historic mosques, possessing cultural heritage value, need to be evaluated in terms of thermal comfort. The adaptive thermal comfort method presented by ASHRAE 55 is recommended to be used to analyze thermal comfort conditions of unconditioned buildings. The aim of research is to analyze thermal comfort conditions of historic mosques throughout the year, and to conduct an adaptive comfort analysis. The selected Salepçioğlu Mosque was built in 1905 in Kemeraltı, İzmir, Turkey. The objective is to improve indoor thermal comfort levels by applicable interventions with specific attention to its heritage value. First, indoor and outdoor microclimate of Salepçioğlu Mosque was monitored from October 2014 to September 2015. The physical model of mosque was created via dynamic simulation modelling tool, DesignBuilder v4.2. The model was calibrated by comparing simulated and measured indoor air temperature within hourly error ranges defined by ASHRAE Guideline 14. Whole-year thermal comfort analysis was conducted on monthly basis by using adaptive thermal comfort model. The adaptive comfort analysis of monitoring campaign shows that the Mosque does not satisfy acceptable comfort levels. Different scenarios were applied to better comfort levels. The best improvement is obtained with underfloor heating by which discomfort hours drop into 1369 hours by 31.34%, while it was 3760 hours by 86.08% in the baseline model.