Timuçin HarputlugilCankaya University · Department of Architecture
Timuçin Harputlugil
PhD
Editor in Chief of
GRID - Architecture, Planning and Design Journal
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Introduction
He is an architect. Beside his academic career, he was involved in design and construction processes of several projects. He is scholarly interested in Building Technologies, Architectural Design Quality, Multi Criteria Decision Making Methods in Design and Energy Efficient Design. His current research interests are human and building interactions related to energy and water efficiency.
Additional affiliations
December 2020 - present
March 2019 - September 2019
October 2014 - December 2020
Education
September 2005 - February 2012
January 2001 - January 2005
September 1994 - June 1999
Publications
Publications (23)
Occupants make a passive contribution to the building energy balance by their very presence; they also can
have an active role through activities like opening windows, changing thermostat set points, tuning radiator
switches or lighting switches, etc. Furthermore, in existing buildings, occupants also play a role in
decisions regarding any inter...
Architectural design is an effective decision-making activity based on problem solving. Within this context, assessment of architectural design is complex. This complexity is not based on content and volume of problems, but also heterogeneity and uncertainty of information provided for assessment, subjective approaches, and a large number of the cr...
The goal of this research is to attempt establishing occupant behaviour profiles and how that behaviour impacts energy consumption with regard to indoor comfort levels in the current social housing stock in Turkey. The data consists of a large statistical survey that included four housing complexes situated in different climate regions in Turkey. A...
Buildings consume energy for different purposes. One core function is to provide healthy and comfortable living conditions for the humans that inhabit these buildings. The associated energy use is significant: taken together, buildings are responsible for roughly 40% of the world’s total annual energy consumption. This large percentage makes the bu...
Buildings are expected to provide healthy and comfortable indoor environmental conditions for their users. Such conditions have diverse dimensions, including thermal, visual, air quality, auditory, and olfactory aspects. Indoor environmental quality standards, guidelines, and codes typically inform professionals in the building design and operation...
Current approaches towards making buildings more efficient in terms of water consumption are often qualitative and simply based on the inclusion of certain water-saving and recycling design features, or simple water quantity assessments. This paper presents a conceptual framework of an approach that will allow an objective qualification of whether...
The adoption of public-private partnerships (PPPs) as a strategy for infrastructure projects, such as airports, highways, bridges, water supplies, and telecommunication, has been implemented in developed and developing countries with a number of obstacles. Based on this stance, critical success factors (CSFs) of public-private partnership projects...
Since the sustainable development is considered one of the most significant global concerns, its goals are legislated by several countries to guarantee the project compliance. Therefore, the important issue of development is to ensure the project compliance with the sustainability requirements. With this paper, a research is conducted for selecting...
Emerging technologies allow digital production to be used within the initial stages of architectural design. The design process, in which drawing is the main tool, is affected with the rapid increase of digital production in the building sector and increasing awareness on digital drawing and production/fabrication is an undeniable fact of 21 st cen...
One of the main important tasks for sustainable development is to boost energy efficiency. Based on Energy Performance of Buildings Directive (EPBD) revealed in 2002 by European Union (EU) 40% of energy is consumed by buildings. In the same directive for energy efficiency a new model called Energy Performance Certification (EPC) is introduced and s...
Energy efficiency is at the forefront of current debates about building technology. The increasing global population, decreasing fossil-based energy resources, rising emissions of harmful gases are the main motivators of energy efficiency in buildings. Although the energy consumption of buildings varies according to factors such as social differenc...
Based on the problems of the current tools, this article introduces an
Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) based approach which aims to
assess architectural design quality within the design process from the
perspectives of stakeholders’ preferences, departing from a conception of
architectural design quality which is in the eye of the beholder. This a...
20. yüzyılın son çeyreğinde enerji etkin tasarım ile başlayan ve sürdürülebilirlik kavramını çok boyutlu ele alan mimari tasarım yaklaşım ve uygulamaları hız kazanmıştır. Bu bağlamda tasarım sürecinin başından itibaren disiplinler arası ortak çalışma gerektiren çok boyutlu tasarım yöntemleri geliştirmek ve hayata geçirmek zorunluluğu doğmuştur. Yap...
Sürdürülebilirlik kavramı günümüzde birçok farklı ortamda tartışılmaktadır. Tartışmalar farklı
disiplinlerde ele alınmakta ve konu sürekli olarak güncel kalmaktadır. Konunun farklı disiplinler
açısından nasıl ele alındığını gözlemlemek, disiplinlerin birbirleri arasındaki ortak/farklı noktaları
görebilmelerini de sağlamaktadır. Çalışmada yapılan sü...
Architectural design can be considered as a process influenced by many stakeholders, each of which has different decision power. Each stakeholder might have his/her own criteria and weightings depending on his/her own perspective and role. Hence design can be seen as a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) process. Considering architectural design,...
Architectural design can be considered as a process influenced by many stakeholders, each of which has different decision power. Each stakeholder might have his/her own criteria and weightings depending on his/her own perspective and role. Hence design can be seen as a multi-criteria decision making (MCDM) process.
Considering architectural design,...
This article reports on research that has developed a thermally robust school outline design for new schools in Turkey, taking into account the climatic diversity of the country. The work is based on an assessment of current schemes, augmented by the views of professional designers specializing in education buildings. Sensitivity analysis and trans...
Questions
Questions (2)
I would like to have your paper/article/book suggestions related to classification of parameters and used metrics for analysis of occupant behaviour.
I came across with a good paper from O'Brien et al. titled" On occupant-centric building performance metrics" published in 2017.
Any more suggestion is highly appreciated.
I would like to get recommendation for the sources to contribute to the discussion of hand drawing (analog) vs computer based drawing (digital ) in architectural education.
Projects
Projects (7)
La seconda edizione del convegno BEYOND ALL LIMITS si propone, in primo luogo, di affrontare il tema della sostenibilità all’interno dell'attuale dibattito internazionale contraddistinto dalla multiforme risposta alla pandemia. Per questo motivo, gli obiettivi di questo convegno scientifico e multidisciplinare, che abbraccia i campi dell'architettura, della pianificazione e del design, sono stati declinati secondo i principi del New European Bauhaus (NEB).
Il NEB, rispondendo agli obiettivi del Green Deal Europeo attraverso un design centrato sull’uomo, promuove un nuovo stile di vita in cui la sostenibilità incontra lo stile, accelerando così la transizione verde nella nostra società, nei vari settori della nostra vita quotidiana e dell’economia, come l'edilizia, l'arredamento, la moda.
https://vanvitellimagazine.unicampania.it/index.php/primo-piano/design-e-fashion/1115-beyond-all-limits-international-conference-on-sustainability-in-architecture-planning-and-design-officina-vanvitelli-11-12-13-maggio-2022-call-for-papers
Occupancy is one of the reasons of performance gap. Performance gap, difference of actual to estimated energy usage in buildings can be tracked via difference of EPC and DEC values of buildings. Referring to metaphor of Plato’s Cave; effect of occupancy to energy consumption in buildings can be observed in numbers although underlying factors with drivers can not be easily defined or tracked.
The aims of the workshop are:
1) Review of contemporary research in China and the
UK on building energy use, occupant behavior studies
and building performance simulation through keynote
speeches, discussions and brainstorming.
2) Further understanding of occupants’ behavior,
research methodologies and the possibility of transfer to
low-carbon behavior.
3) Identiy further research direction for Early Career
Researchers (ECRs) with case studies, research
findings and relevant experiences contributing to the
behavior model and computational techniques for
building performance simulation
4) Strengthen the research capacity through the UKChina
collaboration by networking opportunities,
highlighting the expertise of all ECRs, the facilities and
support from their home institutes.
Here is the website to apply for this workshop which is fully funded by Newton fund.
https://www.coventry.ac.uk/research/about-us/research-events/2019/investigation-of-the-impact-of-occupant-behavior-on-building-performance-in-the-uk-and-china/
