Feray Maden

Yasar University · Architecture

Natural disasters such as earthquakes, wildfires, landslides, and floods displace millions of people worldwide every year. Therefore, temporary shelters should be provided to the people affected by disasters. Generally, conventional shelters such as tents, container-type shelters, and prefabricated structures are used after disasters. However, they...

Advances in robotics, materials science, computer science, and building technology have begun to change architecture. With kinetic architecture beginning to shape the future of architecture, flexible and adaptive design solutions have been developed to respond to the changing spatial needs and climatic conditions. There is a dynamic interaction bet...

Responsive facades can reduce building energy consumption and control daylight and natural ventilation to improve user comfort. This study aims to develop alternative responsive facade systems based on semi-regular and demi-regular tessellations. For this purpose, first, the tessellation method used to generate responsive facades is introduced. The...

Since natural disasters cause property damage and destruction, it requires providing habitable covered living spaces for those who lost their houses in the disasters. Humanitarian organizations, and local and national governments attempt to respond immediately to the needs of people affected by disasters and provide them temporary shelters such as...

Purpose: The most important need after natural disasters is the sheltering. However, most of the existing temporary shelters do not meet all requirements for long-term use and not provide adequate flexibility within the space. This paper aims to develop a transitional post disaster shelter transforming from a closed shape to an expanded form in res...

Scissor linkages are used in various applications since they provide many advantages in comparison to other types of deployable structures. In literature, there are two geometric design methods for these linkages: the unit-assembly method and the loop-assembly method. The unit-assembly method is an inductive method based on the serial multiplicatio...

Consisting of linear elements, reciprocal frame structures are three-dimensional (3D) self-supported structures that can be rapidly assembled. This feature renders them suitable for both temporary and permanent uses. Considered as a type of deployable frame, such structures can be used in architectural and engineering applications. As a subset of r...

Due to their expansion capabilities and the simplicity of their design, scissor linkages have been used in both architecture and engineering for various applications, such as expandable roofs and shelters, movable bridges, furniture, and as parts of mechanisms. The two main design methods used for scissor linkages are the unit-based method and the...

Scissor linkages have been used for several applications since ancient Greeks and Romans. In addition to simple scissor linkages with straight rods, linkages with angulated elements have been introduced in the last decades. In the related literature, two methods have been used to design scissor linkages, one of which is based on scissor elements, a...

With the rapid decline of energy sources in the twentieth century, energy efficient building solutions started to play a significant role in the architectural design process. In parallel with the advances in building and computer technologies, the facades that form the building envelope have also included in the transformation process. Building fac...

Deployable scissor structures are capable of large geometric transformations between predefined configurations thanks to their extension and rotation properties. These structures are formed by connecting translational, polar or angulated units that are composed of scissor-like elements. The studies especially on the angulated scissor structures mos...

As the interaction between architecture and technology have increased, the technology changed the decisions made on the building designs. The developments in building technology, material sciences, engineering and robotics have opened up a new perspective in architecture leading to kinetic architecture. Among the examples of the kinetic architectur...

It is an indisputable fact that design studios are at the core of architectural education. In these studios, students are expected to develop creative ideas to the given design problem using components such as function, context, user, form and structure. However, the structure among these components is generally neglected in the design process. In...

The concept of flexibility plays a significant role in architecture in terms of spatial and functional contexts. In fact, this concept has been used in architecture since the ancient times when the people began to build portable shelters for the protection against environmental extremes. Since that time, many different portable structures have been...

Scissor linkages have been used for several applications since ancient Greeks and Romans. In addition to simple scissor linkages with straight rods, linkages with angulated elements were introduced in the last decades. In the related literature, two methods seem to be used to design scissor linkages, one of which is based on scissor elements, and t...

Scissor-hinge linkages are one type of deployable structures which are mostly used in architectural and engineering applications due to their transformation capabilities and the advantages of ease of erection and dismantling. For hundreds of years, these linkages have been used in wide range of applications such as deployable roof structures, bridg...

Radially deployable arches may be created by using various types of units. However, for any deployable structure to be constructed in real life, it should satisfy the structural regulations and codes. Despite various advantages from architectural perspective, deployable structures are weak to satisfy the operational code limits when compared to tru...

Radially deployable arches may be created by using various types of units. However, for any deployable structure to be constructed in real life, it should satisfy the structural regulations and codes. Despite various advantages from architectural perspective, deployable structures are weak to satisfy the operational code limits when compared to tru...

Human population on world is increasing drastically and uncontrolled way. This increase in population requires us re-think how we use resources. As a result of this, many researches come up in different disciplines about reducing the usage of resources to provide sustainable solutions of their discipline related problems. In architectural disciplin...

The building envelope plays an important role in the control of the natural daylight demand at a building scale. An optimized configuration of the façade can contribute to reduce in the total energy consumption of the building. Recently, there has been an increase in the work on responsive building facades, which can offer to increase indoor visual...

Scissor-hinge structures are one of the most common types of deployable structures because of their basic geometric/motion principles and easy assembly details. For hundreds of years, these structures have been used in wide range of applications in architecture, and engineering as deployable roof structures, bridges, shells, furniture designs and s...

There has always been a relationship between design and technology. In the late twentieth century, the technology became more dominant in architecture and started transforming the architectural design. The architects pursued new horizons in design as dealing with the concepts of adaptability, flexibility, mobility and interactivity in order to crea...

The concept of movement is not new in the field of architecture. The root of the idea of capturing movement within structure dates back to ancient times. It continued and played a significant role through the architectural history. Starting from the simple nomadic tents shown as the first examples of transformable structures, various systems were a...

Dynamic building envelopes have entered the mainstream practice of architecture in the last decades. Such dynamic systems are capable of changing their geometric configurations repeatedly and reversibly relative to environmental conditions and occupant requirements. Thus, they may offer innovative building solutions by folding, expanding or curling...

Deployable structures can deploy from a compact to an expanded configuration by changing their sizes. The behaviors of these structures depend on some parameters such as geometric shape, member sizes and kinematic properties. To provide the deployment, not only the arrangements of structural members but also some restrictions must be considered. Mo...

When the existing literature on the research of scissor structures is thoroughly investigated, it is seen that different researchers use different terminologies and classifications especially for the definition of the primary units and the motion type. Some of the studies define the whole geometry based on the geometric properties of the primary sc...

Adaptive façade design plays a key role in energy performance and sustainability considering the thermal, lighting, acoustic, and visual occupants’ comfort as well as aesthetics, economics and durability. In this research, adaptive modifications have been conducted to an existing external shading system of a multi-storey office building. The consid...

This paper is concerned with developing an adaptive structure that can offer morphologically flexible, structurally effective and architecturally viable solution. For this purpose, a multi-hypar structure serving as an adaptive roof for exhibition pavilions is proposed. In the first part of the paper, geometric design principles of the multi-hypar...

This paper aims to develop deployable doubly ruled hyperboloid surfaces that can be used in architectural applications. First, the study systematically analyzes the geometric principles of hyperboloids generated by the ruled surface generation method and examines the morphology to generate different types of hyperboloids. Then, a method is introduc...

In this paper, a novel two dimensional scissor structure that transforms between concave and convex configurations is presented. The structure is designed by a method of assembling kite or anti-kite loops in the flat configuration. Angulated units are generated from the assembled loops. Finally a new angulated scissor unit is introduced in order to...

A novel structural mechanism (SM) that is capable of transforming itself into various hyperbolic paraboloid (hypar) geometries is introduced in this paper. Composed of straight bars and novel joint types, the SM is designed based on the ruled surface generation method. Thus, the paper first investigates the geometrical properties and morphology of...

Parallel to the development of material science and computer technologies, adaptive structures and smart building components have become the demand of contemporary architecture. However, in order to design adaptive systems, basic knowledge on kinematic synthesis is needed. This paper introduces the fundamental principles of the kinematic synthesis...

Double curved geometries including hyperbolicparaboloids (hypars) have become a trend in contemporary architecture. However, most of the constructed architectural examples of the hypars are static and cannot offer any form variability. In this paper, a 2-DOF 8R linkage mechanism is introduced to buildtransformable hypar structures. It is inspired f...

Double curved geometries including hyperbolicparaboloids (hypars) have become a trend in contemporary architecture. However, most of the constructed architectural examples of the hypars are static and cannot offer any form variability. In this paper, a 2-DOF 8 R linkage mechanism is introduced to buildtransformable hypar structures. It is inspired...

This study deals with a review of planar scissor structural mechanisms (SSMs) and reports on how they can be easily transformed from a stowed to a deployed configuration. These mechanisms have an important transformation capacity of their extension and rotation properties, and many examples have been proposed that vary in size, type and geometry. A...

Attributing primary importance to “memory” and “history,” Libeskind’s architecture is often generated along lines, voids, intersecting geometries and skewed angles to express the feelings of loss, absence, and memory and is described as the reinterpretation of human history, rather than exclusively of architectural history. Libeskind establishes hi...

Attributing primary importance to " memory" and " history," Libeskind's architecture is often generated along lines, voids, intersecting geometries and skewed angles to express the feelings of loss, absence, and memory and is described as the reinterpretation of human history, rather than exclusively of architectural history. Libeskind establishes...