Gökçen Firdevs Yücel

Istanbul Aydın University · Architecture and Design Faculty

This invitation extends to you the opportunity to contribute to a research book that explores integrating artificial intelligence (AI) into the design process. This collection of research encompasses a series of book chapters delving into the relationship between Artificial Intelligence and its impact on design processes. The book serves as a compr...

Call for Chapters: Integrating Artificial Intelligence With Industrial Design

This study aims to evaluate hospital outdoor design landscaping requirements. In addition to taking into account user groups such as adult and child patients, hospital staff and visitors, also such elements as hospital entrances and exits, parking areas, hospital roads, children’s playgrounds, rest areas, water elements, art elements, field furnitu...

Historical environment requires a respectful act of conservation with a view to sustain cultural heritage. The increasing trend of continuous change in cities is associated with emergent requirements in physical, economic, and socio-cultural fields. There is an ongoing quest for solutions in the fields of architecture and urban planning aimed to ac...

This article focuses on the Austrian philosopher, social reformer, and architect Rudolf Steiner’s approach to design, architecture, and nature through its anthroposophical thinking about life developed in the 1920s and its reflections on urban space. The article aims to establish a new relationship between art, design, architecture, and landscape,...

Prevailing theories of urban form suggest that pedestrian movement characterizes land uses, which in turn take advantage of 'natural movement' generated by the grid configuration. The present paper investigated a configurational method of the urban grid for transit movement and as the main generator of movement patterns. A morphological method, nam...

The squares as indispensable open spaces in the sociological, physiological and psychological context of urban life, not only create common platforms for various activities, but also serve as a communication space between the city and its residents. Human beings are the primary factor of the squares. How square designs affect user behaviors is a cr...

This study was conducted to determine how the public markets that serve as open urban areas fit themselves among the other functions in the city and how the design criteria could be shaped in a good organized city. In the study, urban space quality was analyzed over Yeşilköy market (İstanbul), Kemerburgaz Bol Pazar market (İstanbul) and the Braga M...

El proceso pandémico provocado por la epidemia del COVID-19, que afectó a todo el mundo y se propagó rápidamente, ha provocado que nuestros estilos de vida social cambien. En este estudio, se pretende examinar aplicaciones creadas con estilos de uso actuales, considerando los principios del diseño de espacios públicos que se han modificado por efec...

This article focuses on the effects of the decreased ability to perceive touch in distance learning for all of the actors in architectural design studios during the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic. As part of face-to-face architectural pedagogy, the tactile experience of architectural materials, models, and corporeality in the studio environment assumes...

This study aims to research the expectations of users who bring their children to a park of the neighbourhood scale. For this purpose, a survey was conducted randomly with 550 people in 2018. The scope of this task encompassed research entailed questions regarding the occupation, educational status, age of the users, their relation to the children,...

Earthquake parks are open spaces where sustenance, shelter and security needs required by people to sustain their daily lives after a disaster may be addressed. In this study, the use of Ataşehir and Topkapı earthquake parks as recreation areas before an earthquake and as a post-disaster park were examined from a space design aspect using on-site o...

The aim of this study is to evaluate smart urban furniture design standards on the example of smart bus stop design. For this purpose, smart urban furniture design standards are gathered under seven headings including safety, form and character, function, value, maintenance, sustainability and technology. After examining the examples of limited num...

People suffering from Alzheimer's may feel anxious or unsettled as a result of these symptoms – in particular the decrease in their cognitive abilities and in their ability to take into account new information or external stimuli – as well from the effects of their medications. Because of their sensitivity, such individuals find it difficult to kee...

The aim of this study is to create a checklist of roof garden design criteria. This scope of work includes an encompassing review of international standards studies such as German Landscape Research, Development, and Construction Society; the American Society for Testing and Materials; the U.S. Green Building Counci; and Green Roofs for Healthy Cit...

United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) supports and monitors conservation of heritage sites around the world. It uses the help of some tools like "World Heritage List". UNESCO adds areas to "World Heritage in Danger List" if it detects a threat about their conservation issues. The aim is to define major threat par...

Urban spaces reflect the reality of city life, like a mirror. This research aims to examine and analyze the advanced aesthetic, functional, and environmental performance of urban public spaces by assessing the current situation and highlighting the role of creativity in developing these spaces. To clarify the research scope, Şişhane Park in İstanbu...

The objective of this study is to define park design standards, determine the user expectations of the parks and evaluate the defined standards in the case of Taraqi Park in Herat city. On-site detection, observation and survey methods were utilized in the study. The conformity of the park area with international standards was evaluated while ge...

In recent years, the global increase in security concerns made it inevitable to develop new action plans in planning processes. Security concerns come with the necessity of considering building architecture processes together with environmental and landscape design processes. This study aims identification of which measures can be taken into accoun...

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Bus shelters, which form a part of daily lives of people, generally provide service as small areas of urban space created for short-term periods of waiting. From the perspective of spatial design, it is important that an environment of good quality is provided for users of bus-shelters. This study proposed hypotheses to research how the physical de...

Bus shelters which form part of people’s daily life, generally built in small area for short time of waiting. In the perspective of spatial design, it is important that good environment is provided for bus shelters users. This study proposed to investigate on the physical design of bus shelters (location-accessibility, anthropometric characteristic...

Today, on one hand while the traditional design process continues, on the other hand, digital design systems along with advances in computer technologies continue to present designers with new and effective ideas. Parametric design is preferred by designers for its relationality, contributing towards versatility, ensuring flexibility, simplifying d...

Today, on one hand while the traditional design process continues, on the other hand, digital design systems along with advances in computer technologies continue to present designers with new and effective ideas. Parametric design is preferred by designers for its relationality, contributing towards versatility, ensuring flexibility, simplifying d...

Today, on one hand while the traditional design process continues, on the other hand, digital design systems along with advances in computer technologies continue to present designers with new and effective ideas. Parametric design is preferred by designers for its relationality, contributing towards versatility, ensuring flexibility, simplifying d...

This chapter analyzes the case study of Kanlidere watershed in Cyprus to explore a potential "reintro-ducing" of the river to its surrounding residential communities (and, on a broader level, to society), in an effective protection and restoration approach of the environment. The Kanlidere (Pedios) is Cyprus' longest river where its watershed has c...

The aim of this study was to study the expectations of children in the 8-10 age group regarding their play areas, and to generate planning and design data for these areas accordingly. For the study, which used cognitive mapping procedures, 176 children studying in the third and fourth years of a primary institution in Istanbul were asked to draw th...

People suffering from Alzheimer's may feel anxious or unsettled as a result of these symptoms – in particular the decrease in their cognitive abilities and in their ability to take into account new information or external stimuli – as well from the effects of their medications. Because of their sensitivity, such individuals find it difficult to kee...

Eco-revelatory design (ERD) is an ecological design concept in the field of landscape architecture means “a design strategy that attempts to enhance site ecosystems as well as engage users by revealing ecological and cultural phenomena, processes and relationships affecting a site ”. Landscape architects reveal nature through their form, materials...