• Long term stability of biodegradable polymers on building limestone 

  Kaplan, Zişan; Böke, Hasan; Sofuoğlu, Aysun; İpekoğlu, Başak (Elsevier, 2019-06)

  Synthetic polymers can be replaced by biodegradable ones as adhesives, water repellents and consolidants on the stone surfaces and facades of the historic buildings in their conservation to minimize future deterioration. ...

• Fuzzy logic model for the categorization of manual lighting control behaviour patterns based on daylight illuminance and interior layout 

  Kunduracı, Arzu Cılasun; Kazanasmaz, Zehra Tuğçe (Sage Publications Ltd, 2019-07)

  In considering total building energy consumption, lighting plays an important role in shaping energy consumption and use. Although key strategies (such as energy efficient lighting products, lighting control systems and ...

• Experimental and numerical investigation of forced convection in a double skin facade by using nodal network approach for Istanbul 

  İnan, Tuğba; Başaran, Tahsin (Elsevier, 2019-05)

  In this study, temperature distribution and heat transfer through the cavity of a double skin facade (DSF) was investigated in the laboratory environment and analyzed numerically by using nodal network approach. The ...

• The sustainability of an urban ritual in the collective memory: Bergama Kermesi 

  İnceköse, Ülkü (MDPI, 2019-05)

  Bergama Festival, locally known as Bergama Kermesi, is an annual festival which dates back to 22 May 1937 in the city. It came into existence as a result of Ataturk's intention to introduce this, an extraordinary town with ...

• Construction techniques of hayat houses: Two case studies in the vicinity of Izmir 

  Hamamcıoğlu Turan, Mine; Aktaş, Engin; Mamaklı, Fatma Sezgi; Kaplan, Zişan (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019-06)

  This study aims to contribute to the analytic studies on constructional aspects of the hayat house typology with an eye on its historical evolution for conservation purposes. The method used included a review of the surviving ...

• Conservation-aimed evaluation of a historical aqueduct in Izmir 

  Mamaklı, Fatma Sezgi; Hamamcıoğlu Turan, Mine; Aktaş, Engin; Vardaroğlu, Mustafa (American Society of Civil Engineers, 2019-06)

  The seventeenth century was the era in which Izmir became an international commercial center in the eastern Mediterranean. The vizier of the era, Koprulu Fazil Ahmet Pasa, noticed the scarcity of potable water in relation ...

• Groundwater recharge estimation using HYDRUS 1D model in Alaşehir sub-basin of Gediz Basin in Turkey 

  Tonkul, Serhat; Baba, Alper; Şimşek, Celalettin; Durukan, Seda; Demirkesen, Ali Can; Tayfur, Gökmen (Springer, 2019-10)

  Gediz Basin, located in the western part of Turkey constituting 2% land of the country, has an important groundwater potential in the area. Alasehir sub-basin, located in the southeast of the Gediz Basin and subject to the ...

• Can tube tunnel crossings relieve urban congestion problems? Izmir tube tunnel project proposal under scrutiny 

  Duvarcı, Yavuz; Yiğitcanlar, Tan (MDPI, 2019-05)

  Building underwater tube tunnel crossings to ease the urban congestion problems has become a popular approach for many cities across the globe. London, New York, Istanbul, Hamburg, Sydney and Brisbane are among these cities. ...

• Dovecotes in Kayabağ village: an assessment of landscape and architectural characteristics 

  İnceköse, Ülkü (Taylor & Francis, 2020-01)

  The dovecotes of Kayseri-Gesi stand out as unique examples of indigenous architecture of Anatolia. They are considered significant elements of the rural landscape. The purpose of the construction, the constructional and ...

• Prospects for cellulosic biofuel production in the Northeastern United States: A scenario analysis 

  Dilekli, Naci; Duchin, Faye (Blackwell Publishing, 2016-02)

  Secure access to energy and food are two of the challenges facing the Northeast region of the United States. Traditional biofuel feedstocks, such as corn and oil seed, are able to satisfy energy requirements. However, they ...

• Kent içi arkeolojik alanlarda katmanlaşmanın analizi ve koruma sorunları: Foça örneği 

  Taşcı, Burcu; Akyüz Levi, Eti (Atatürk Kültür, Dil ve Tarih Yüksek Kurumu: Türk Tarih Kurumu, 2018-04)

  Foça Batı Anadolu’da Prehistorik dönemden başlayarak Arkaik, Klasik, Helenistik, Roma, Bizans, Ceneviz kolonisi ve Osmanlı dönemlerinde sürekli iskân görmüş, çok katmanlı bir yerleşimdir. Kentte arkeolojik kazı çalışmaları ...

• Energetic and exergetic design evaluations of a building block based on a hybrid solar envelope method 

  Yelda, Mert; Saygın, Nicel (Springer, 2018)

  To achieve sustainable development, there needs to be a focus on decreasing use of non-renewable energy sources and greenhouse gas emissions. In this regard, many studies focus on the strong relationship between energy and ...

• Place management of a creative city: The case of Izmir 

  Mengi, Onur; Durmaz Drinkwater, Sıdıka Bahar; Öner, Aslı Ceylan; Velibeyoğlu, Koray (Inderscience Enterprises, 2017)

  This study investigates how place management is used to render a creative city through the combination of soft factors as intangible characteristics and hard factors as tangible characteristics of the built environment. ...

• Exergy analysis of mass housing areas: Mavişehir I and II, Izmir 

  Mert, Yelda; Saygın, Nicel (Inderscience Enterprises, 2015)

  In this study, in terms of urban design, an exergy analysis of Mavişehir mass housing area in Izmir, Turkey is carried out based on spatial properties, shadow effects, wind effects and local climate to understand the ...

• Hyphenated identities: The recept ion of Turkish German cinema in the Turkish daily press 

  Tunç Cox, Ayça (Berghahn Books, 2012-10)

  The success of Turkish German filmmaker Fatih Akın initiated new debates on the identity of Turkish diasporic filmmakers in Germany. While star director Akın and other Turkish German filmmakers have been celebrated in ...

• Documentation of historic structures for the assessment of heritage characteristics 

  Hamamcıoğlu Turan, Mine; Akbaylar, İpek (Locke Science Publishers, 2011-06)

  Correct identification of heritage characteristics is a prerequisite for the conservation of historic structures. This study summarizes the developments in image-based documentation techniques and explores a way of combining ...

• Radially expandable ring-like structure with antiparallelogram loops 

  Gür, Şebnem; Korkmaz, Koray; Kiper, Gökhan (Azerbaijan Technical University, 2017-09-11)

  As they constitute a substantial percent of deployable structures, scissor mechanisms are widely studied. This being so, new approaches to the design of scissor mechanisms still emerge. Usually design methods consider the ...

• An evaluation methodology for the tangible and intangible assets of city-regions: The 6K1C framework 

  Velibeyoğlu, Koray; Yiğitcanlar, Tan (Inderscience Enterprises, 2010-10)

  Together with hard and soft networks, tangible and intangible regional assets play an important role in the knowledge-based development of competing city-regions. The aim of this paper, therefore, is to investigate the ...

• Way-finding strategies of blind persons in urban scale 

  Kan Kılıç, Didem; Doğan, Fehmi (Wiley, 2017-12)

  The aim of this study was to determine whether urban environments with different prominent sensory inputs have an impact on the way-finding strategies of blind people and to identify these impacts, where applicable. We ...

• A model for assessing the reuse of an ancient place of performance: The bouleuterion of Teos 

  Çalışkan, Merve (Taylor & Francis, 2017-10)

  Ancient places of performance are often considered for reuse as a means of promoting archaeological sites. Therefore, local authorities and decision makers have a difficult task of balancing the conservation and management ...

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