The growing urbanization of hill towns results in an increasing demand for infrastructural facilities.Infrastructural facilities are generally planned without considering the effects of the surroundings as well as the...The growing urbanization of hill towns results in an increasing demand for infrastructural facilities.Infrastructural facilities are generally planned without considering the effects of the surroundings as well as their effects on the sensitive ecosystem of hill areas.Site planning decisions are taken on the basis of judgment and experience of planners in the absence of a rational and quantitative framework for ensuring the sustainable development of hill areas.This scenario generates the need for an efficient site planning framework.Site planning is a creative problem solving(CPS)process.Hence,in the current study,the CPSbased framework is developed as follows.First,existing CPS-based frameworks for planning and designing are reviewed.Second,the framework is developed for site planning in hill areas.Third,the developed framework is validated through planning infrastructural facilities of an institutional campus on a site located in hill areas.The major strength of the developed framework includes three cycles,namely,understand,process,and implement.Site planning decisions are taken through the generation of alternate scenarios and their subsequent evaluation on the basis of impact on the sensitive ecosystem of hill areas.展开更多
Following the EN 15193,2008 Energy Performance in Buildings Regulation in the European Union Member States,a comprehensive calculation can be made on lighting energy performance and daylight effect.This improved model...Following the EN 15193,2008 Energy Performance in Buildings Regulation in the European Union Member States,a comprehensive calculation can be made on lighting energy performance and daylight effect.This improved model accounts for Turkey’s“BEP-TR”(“Regulation on Energy Performance in Buildings”).In the present study,the effect of the obstruction angle parameter of buildings on light-ing energy consumption and daylight provided is examined through a sample hotel project by the BEP-TR calculation method.This study investigates the effect of day-light on lighting energy performance alternatives that were produced according to the height,building distance variations(causing obstruction angle),and the correlation between annual lighting consumption values,daylight supply factor,and obstruction parameters.Accordingly,the current study aims to develop a method to assist zoning regulations,building intervals,and height decisions by determining specific ratios between obstruction parameters,daylight supply factor and lighting energy consump-tion values.Results of this study clearly show that obstruction parameter variables affect both the daylight supply factor and annual lighting energy significantly.展开更多
文摘The growing urbanization of hill towns results in an increasing demand for infrastructural facilities.Infrastructural facilities are generally planned without considering the effects of the surroundings as well as their effects on the sensitive ecosystem of hill areas.Site planning decisions are taken on the basis of judgment and experience of planners in the absence of a rational and quantitative framework for ensuring the sustainable development of hill areas.This scenario generates the need for an efficient site planning framework.Site planning is a creative problem solving(CPS)process.Hence,in the current study,the CPSbased framework is developed as follows.First,existing CPS-based frameworks for planning and designing are reviewed.Second,the framework is developed for site planning in hill areas.Third,the developed framework is validated through planning infrastructural facilities of an institutional campus on a site located in hill areas.The major strength of the developed framework includes three cycles,namely,understand,process,and implement.Site planning decisions are taken through the generation of alternate scenarios and their subsequent evaluation on the basis of impact on the sensitive ecosystem of hill areas.
文摘Following the EN 15193,2008 Energy Performance in Buildings Regulation in the European Union Member States,a comprehensive calculation can be made on lighting energy performance and daylight effect.This improved model accounts for Turkey’s“BEP-TR”(“Regulation on Energy Performance in Buildings”).In the present study,the effect of the obstruction angle parameter of buildings on light-ing energy consumption and daylight provided is examined through a sample hotel project by the BEP-TR calculation method.This study investigates the effect of day-light on lighting energy performance alternatives that were produced according to the height,building distance variations(causing obstruction angle),and the correlation between annual lighting consumption values,daylight supply factor,and obstruction parameters.Accordingly,the current study aims to develop a method to assist zoning regulations,building intervals,and height decisions by determining specific ratios between obstruction parameters,daylight supply factor and lighting energy consump-tion values.Results of this study clearly show that obstruction parameter variables affect both the daylight supply factor and annual lighting energy significantly.
