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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) Özsavaşcı, Umut; Durmuş Arsan, Zeynep; Gökçen Akkurt, Gülden
    The '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
    Tactics of Conversion in Social Housing Settlements: Uzundere Toki̇ Housings
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2022) Bekir, Diclehan; Yılmaz, Ebru
    Urban and housing policies that started with the establishment of the Republic of Turkey and social housing projects and actors produced in Turkey were evaluated. Within the scope of this evaluation, the actors producing the social housing and the processes of producing the space were analyzed. While TOKI and local municipalities, which are dominant in the production of social housing in Turkey, are evaluated through the Uzundere TOKI Housings project, which has been selected as the case study, focuses on the dwellers who try to be included in the production process of the space. Dwellers from different social, cultural, and economic classes live in the space produced by these actors. The authority producing the designed space produces the standard and a uniform space independent of location causing the space to be converted by individuals according to different cultures and habits. For this reason, it is seen that the space produced independently of the individual is converted with tactics in order to realize the daily lifes, habits, needs, and expectations of the dwellers in these houses, in this place where they bring different groups together. Within the scope of this master's thesis, Uzundere TOKI Housings dwellers will focus on the space conversions by their tactics. Thus, it will be tried to understand the expectations and reasons behind the dwellers' implementation of space conversion tactics.
  • Master Thesis
    Rereading the Concept of Heterotopia: Buca Prison and Its Neighborhood
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2022) Öztürk, Duygu; Yılmaz, Ebru
    Since their conceptual existence, prisons have been spaces used by the power to separate individuals who are considered to be disrupting the structure of society from the society. Concepts that have differentiated with the sociological and cultural structures of societies that have changed over time have also evolved their own spatial systems in accordance with their own changes. French researcher Michel Foucault's researches and theories on prisons have contributed to making them not just physical spaces, making their interactions with their environments visible, and making them a tool that provides a clearer understanding of their role in the transformation of cities and societies inherent in power. The concept of Heteratopia, which Foucault mentions in his work on the Other Space, is a concept that should be evaluated together with the imposition form based on principles developed with physical rules and the tools used by the power to produce itself, emerging in the network of relations, regarding understanding how spaces produce information after the 20th century. Intersections that meet this concept in cities also benefit an active role with some physical boundaries or administrative forms operated by the power. Buca Prison, which has been visible for years on the busiest street of the city with its sharp borders, has become a structure where such spatial relations diversify, dominate and become visible. Buca prison, which has seriously affected the built environment in which it is located, has defined new spatial boundaries arising from social relations for years. When these spatial boundaries are evaluated within the scope of Foucault's studies, new responses and information are produced. For all these reasons, this study analyzes how Buca was affected by Buca Prison, using archive scans and qualitative research method ve evaluated the spatial sections associated with the city with theoretical approaches from the perspective of Foucault.
  • Master Thesis
    Analysing Pakistani Architecture in the Context of Critical Regionalism
    (01. Izmir Institute of Technology, 2022) Bahadur, Aujala Naveed; Yılmaz, Ebru
    Pakistani architectural practise is adopting global trends and universal ideals without regard to its traditional roots, meanwhile critical regionalism has emerged as a significant global strategy for delivering a blend of legitimacy and contemporary architecture, particularly in developing nations. In addition, it promotes the production of architecture directly related to their surroundings and communities while being a component of the contemporary world. Therefore, using critical regionalism as a tool, this study will examine Pakistani architecture to understand the linkage between its tradition and modern technology. Within the scope of this thesis, theoretical studies on Critical Regionalism are first explored, concluded by eight aspects that, according to this research, go beyond what Kenneth Frampton and others had established. Then, an examination of the persisting problems in Pakistani architectural practises is performed. The following chapter examines critical regionalism in Pakistani architecture using the same eight factors. The examination includes the ideologies, works, and interviews with Pakistan's three most prominent architects: Nayyar Ali Dada, Kamil Khan Mumtaz, and Naeem Pasha. The research concludes by determining, via observations and deductions, the viability of critical regionalism as a tool. Due to a lack of publications on Pakistani architects and architecture, this study attempts to develop a framework for future studies on awareness and inspiration from selected architects' work.
  • Master Thesis
    Energy and Environmental Performance Based Decision Support Process for Early Design Stage of Residential Buildings
    (İzmir Institute of Technology, 2016) Gerçek, Mümine; Durmuş Arsan, Zeynep
    Deficiencies in systematic approaches for design decision support to increase energy and environmental performance of buildings in Turkey are projected as the major problem of this study. Rare usage of computational methods for evaluating and improving building performance, need for informational assistance in design, as well as lack of interaction between systematic knowledge and building practice are the secondary problems. This thesis mainly aims to test usability of the decision support process assisting architects in early design stages of residential buildings. Assessing the uncertainties in building performance caused by design parameters and climate change, in terms of determining the most significant parameters on annual energy consumption for heating, cooling and operational CO2 emissions in hot humid climatic region of Turkey is the significant objective of the study. The relation between input parameters and building performance indicators is examined by the uncertainty and global sensitivity analyses for a residential building in İzmir, Turkey. The process is supported by usability testing held with the architect in practice. The results indicate that, the sensitivity between input and output parameters changes according to the projected weather conditions and different floors of the building. The SHGC of windows on south-west, north-east facades, and window U values are the most effective parameters on energy and environmental performance. The proposed decision support process is approved to be applicable for early design stages of the selected building, and helps creating consciousness about the importance of systematic design decision approach for the building professional.
  • Master Thesis
    The Metaphor of "curtain Wall" in the Modern Architectural Discourse
    (Izmir Institute of Technology, 2013) Kutluay, Pınar; Yücel, Şebnem
    "Curtain wall" is mostly regarded as a direct outcome of the industrial reform in the Nineteenth Century. Following technological determinist approach, most of the studies about curtain wall seek to find an origin for it in the late Nineteenth Century. Different from these studies, this thesis investigates the formation of the discourse of curtain wall in view of its metaphoric background. Instead of focusing only on technology as the main factor, the study unveils different sides of the discourse which remained in the background and deciphers how "curtain," a term borrowed from textile and theatre, has been associated with facade of frame structure. In detail, the study sheds light on how frame structure, one of the main components of a curtain wall system, came to be called as "skeleton" with reference to the theory of organicism. The dressing --Bekleidung-- theory of Gottfried Semper is also examined as an alternative interpretation of the relationship between structure and facade regarding monumentalization through dressing and masking; as skeleton structure led architects to reconsider wall with concern of representation. Furthermore, the study concentrates on the architectural environment of Chicago in the second half of the Nineteenth Century, exploring two mainly different interpretations of frame structure which both arose from a shared concern of representation by some significant architects, including Louis H. Sullivan, who was also interested in monumentalization through ornament. This thesis claims that curtain wall is a metaphor invented to reconcile the emerging technology with the theory of representation which had diverse sides.