Defne Sunguroglu Hensel

Defne Sunguroglu Hensel
Southeast University | SEU · Architecture Internationalization Demonstration School

AA Dipl RIBA II MSc PhD

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Scientific evidence shows that the rapid transformation of terrestrial environments by humans accelerates environmental and ecological degradation beyond critical limits. It is therefore necessary to significantly advance sustainable planning and design. To accomplish this a nature-integrated design paradigm is required. First, it is crucial to rel...
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Compared to inland settlements, coastal cities concentrate a large propor-tion of the global population and economic activity, while being exposed and vulner-able to a range of climate-and ocean-compounded hazards driven by climate change. Given the urgency of identifying efficient and sustainable climate adaptation strate-gies and designing climat...
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This chapter introduces key themes and intentions of the Designing Environments book series, including approaches to and linkages between sustainability, environments, the Anthropocene, social-ecological systems, and the concept of the critical zone. Furthermore, this chapter introduces the different contributions collected in volume one of the ser...
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Human transformations of environments and the associated negative environmental impact across spatial and temporal scales increase at an alarming rate. Land cover and land use change driven by rapid urbanization and construction are a fundamental part of this transformation. In this context, the question arises whether there is something inherently...
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Although voxel models have been applied to address diverse problems in computer-aided design processes, their role in multi-domain data integration in digital architecture and planning has not been extensively studied. The primary objective of this study is to map the current state of the art and to identify open questions concerning data structuri...
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The Designing Environments book series addresses questions regarding necessary environmental transformation in the context of the fast-unfolding environmental crisis. This is done from a broad interdisciplinary perspective, examining the negative impact of human transformations of the environment and providing different inroads towards sustainable...
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Research is revealing an increasing number of positive effects of nature for humans. At the same time, biodiversity in cities, where most humans live, is often low or in decline. Tangible solutions are needed to increase urban biodiversity. Architecture is a key discipline that has considerable influence on the built‐up area of cities, thereby infl...
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Recovery of land knowledge can help to advance the understanding of socio-ecological systems like traditional sustainable agricultural systems. Such efforts require transdisciplinary inquiry, data acquisition and analysis, as well as the development of data-integrated design processes for implementing recovered knowledge in the design of such syste...
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Rapid urbanization and related land cover and land use changes are primary causes of climate change, and of environmental and ecosystem degradation. Sustainability problems are becoming increasingly complex due to these developments. At the same time vast amounts of data on urbanization, construction and resulting environmental conditions are being...
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Over the past decades the understanding of environment has undergone profound changes. This has been accelerated by the advent of information science and big data, and the ever-increasing quantity of data produced by smart devices in urban areas and remote-sensing. This development has been accompanied by advanced information and communication tech...
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21st century agricultural production faces major challenges including climate change, environmental degradation, land use change, and population growth leading to food shortage. Addressing these challenges can benefit substantially from inclusive approaches that consider both rural and urban agriculture. As the exchange of insights and approaches i...
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Urban areas are facing significant challenges regarding degradation of environments and ecosystems, species loss, and increased vulnerability to climate hazards, all of which impact negatively upon human health and well-being.Focusing on building envelopes can offer an effective approach to the regeneration of urban ecosystems, by providing new spa...
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Understanding socio-ecological systems and the discovery, recovery and adaptation of land knowledge are key challenges for sustainable land use. The analysis of sustainable agricultural systems and practices, for instance, requires interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research and coordinated data acquisition, data integration and analysis. Howe...
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This article seeks to initiate research into traditional rural hedging techniques, hedge types, and hedgerow networks for the purpose of their potential adaptation as urban green systems (UGS). The research involves three scales: (1) the plant scale and related manipulation techniques; (2) hedgerows and their context-specific types, ecosystem funct...
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Editorial Summary In »Data-Driven Research on Ecological Prototypes for Green Architecture« Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel introduces a design research attempt to the field of environment design, landscape, architecture, and green technologies in the context of urbanization, questioning the interrelation of architectural buildings and ecological, agricult...
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This article identifies a gap in the approaches to Green Construction (GC), and initiates a line of research in the area of the so-called "ecological prototypes". Ecological prototypes, stands for a new type of GC, which are integrated and adaptive systems of design, construction and practices that link architecture, horticulture and agriculture, l...
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In architecture, landscape architecture, and urban design, entangled multi-scale and multi-domain, or compound, sustainability problems and associated design requirements are becoming rapidly more demanding, complex, and interdisciplinary due to demographic, social, economic, environmental, and technological changes. This places considerable pressu...
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The book - Activating Public Space - deals with the regeneration of the public realm from different points of view, with the main purpose of optimizing its social, functional, technological and energetic requirements. Under this premise, the text aims at identifying intervention strategies that, in addition to satisfying the basic needs for fruitiv...
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This chapter portrays an effort to pursue urban climate mitigation in a larger complex of compound sustainabili-ty problems. In this context we recognize that addressing compound sustainability problems and raising benchmarks within current approaches is limiting. What is key is a chan-ge in attitude, which requires a grounding ethic, a guiding per...
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Our take on questions of architecture and performance is rooted in a linked environmental and cultural ethic and endeavor: its aim is to improve on the relation between architecture and environment, while basing this approach wherever possible on locally specific cultural practices. As construction impacts upon our planet at a momentous rate, consu...
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A wide range of structures and practices evolved over centuries as vital part of traditional agricultural/horticultural systems show that human constructions and activities are not inherently or always harmful for the environment. In fact, they can be central for the protection, support and enhancement of local ecosystems and ecosystem services. Th...
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The sixth Relating Systems Thinking and Design Symposium (RSD6 2017) was held at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design in Norway in October 2017. The central theme of the symposium was “Environment, Economy, Democracy: Flourishing Together”, and called for contributions on democratic participation and policy innovation, sustainable business in...
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Our research focuses on the question as to how architectural design can meet increasingly complex sustainability demands and support the natural physical and biological environment instead of degrading it. To try and meet this goal we undertake extensive analyses of historical case studies of architectures and constructions across a wide range of h...
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Adaptive design is an architectural process by which available materials and local environments are adapted to changing design requirements. In traditional architecture, this process is effective but implicit and slow. Computer-aided architectural design (CAAD) lacks common and granular data models, intelligence capabilities and informatics tools t...
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Auxiliary Architectures are built interventions that extend the capacity of regular architectures with the addition of semi-sheltered spaces for versatile use and for reducing climate impact on the existing architectures. Wherever they exist in historical precedents or in contemporary design such supplementary architectures are frequently lightweig...
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This paper seeks to identify and discuss alternatives to the prevailing and progressively global approach to architecture, urban design and regional planning, which is based on homogeneous figure-ground arrangements that consist of discrete architectures with all their known repercussions and restrictions imposed by the predominance of the architec...
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The chapter portrays the trajectory of organizational changes in OCEAN from its launch in 1994 to its current manifestation as OCEAN Design Research Association with particular respect to the relation of integrated research and design within OCEAN. The chapter includes the discussion of concept and method developments, sample projects and dissemina...
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This paper commences from the understanding that the built environment constitutes a vast repository of embedded knowledge and portrays an ongoing study of pre-industrial architectural case studies including buildings and settlement pattern so as to gain insights into their fine-tuned relation of their location specific performative capacities and...
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Architect Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel and engineer Guillem Baraut Bover describe the Nested Catenaries design and construction system they have developed as part of a research project at the Oslo School of Architecture and Design (AHO). They explain how their innovative development of an unreinforced masonry shell structure made up of a single layer of...
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Phenotypic similarity between unrelated organisms, known as convergence, is a result of shared problems of adaptation to similar environments and limited ecological range. Their separate genetic histories imply a developmental route to biological innovation. Convergence as a model of evolutionary change has been applied to biological evolutionary r...
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This article seeks to address the question as to how architectural systems can be better developed to support locally specific design. The biological concepts of ‘developmental plasticity’ and ‘structural hierarchy’ are introduced as key concepts for the development of material-based structural systems with multi-functional and adaptive properties...
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This paper examines the structural and spatial potentials of designing and constructing with catenaries based on the principle and strategy of nesting. For the purpose of design, nesting can be described as a spatial strategy and a method for organizing and structuring catenary arches. Nested catenaries assume a structural hierarchy with recognizab...
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Despite its extensive empire, Persia historically presented a challenging environment for the building of structures and infrastructure. The mountainous landscape of the Iranian plateaus has an arid or semi‐arid climate with distinct seasonal variations and temperatures that fluctuated throughout the day. Despite this, water management and soil‐fer...
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In Turkey, there exists a rich tradition of auxiliary architecture that is supplementary to permanent domestic structures. In hot climates, it often provides essential shade, either as stand-alone shelter or as transitional spaces between the cool interior and the sun-exposed exterior. It is a history that offers great potential for innovative sust...
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Since the onset of cartography in the 18th century, the fixed datum line and the figure-ground have become the predominant means of measuring and planning the built environment. In the first of three articles on the subject of extended thresholds, Michael Hensel and Defne Sunguroğlu Hensel challenge this reductionist convention. By taking Deleuze a...
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Previous to the widespread adoption of air conditioning in the 20th century, which introduced a distinct differentiation between controlled interior space and the external environment, ‘a wealth of strategies’ were developed in Turkey to moderate the transition between inside and outside. There is much to learn from these no-energy and low-energy s...
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A central concern of architecture as a material practice is the way in which built and natural environments interact to provide exciting and sustainable modes of habitation. Key to this is the way in which material performance is understood and instrumentalised. In the first part of this article, Michael Hensel and Defne Sunguroglu research the cha...
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Are bricks passé? Or is the contemporary world just failing to realise the innate possibilities of this ancient material? Eladio Dieste once ardently stated that brick is ‘a material with unlimited possibilities, almost completely ignored by modern technology.’1 Dieste's careful inclusion of the word ‘almost’ here seems to suggest that he suspected...

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