Energy-efficient retrofits include improvement of building envelope via insulation, employment of building integrated renewable energy technologies, and climate control strategies. Building envelope improvements with insulation is a common approach, yet decision-making plays an important role in determining the most appropriate envelope retrofit strategy. In this study, main objective is to evaluate and optimize envelope retrofit strategies through a calibrated simulation approach. Based on an energy performance audit and monitoring, an existing building is evaluated on performance levels and improvement potentials with basic energy conservation measures (ECMs). The existing building is monitored for a full year and monitoring data is used in calibrating the simulation model. In order to obtain a better-performing building envelope three retrofit strategies including several ECMs are proposed. Retrofit strategies are simulated through calibrated base-case model, and results are evaluated according to changes in indoor environmental parameters and annual energy consumption measures. The analysis of results indicated that pre-assessed strategies yield close results. Therefore, a more comprehensive evaluation based on different decisive criteria is used in optimization of the final retrofit strategy, with the intention to evaluate the effect of individual ECMs on annual end-use energy consumption and investment

Enerji verimliliği çalışmaları kapsamında miras yapılarının dönüşümleri son yıllarda ciddi bir araştırma alanı haline gelmiştir. Bu çalışma, bir miras binasını korurken uygulanacak müdahalelerde yapının mevcut durumunun analizinin, izleme ve denetimin önemine dair vurgu yapmayı amaçlamaktadır. Bu amaç kapsamında tarihi bir yapıdaki enerji performansı izleme sürecini bir vaka çalışması olarak sunmaktadır. Eskişehir’in, Odunpazarı ilçesinde bulunan, 18.yy yapısı Tiryakizade Süleyman Ağa Cami, zemin katı kafeterya üst katı cami olmak üzere çok fonksiyonlu kullanıma sahiptir. Fonksiyon çeşitliliğine bağlı kullanım ve kullanıcı yoğunluğu değişken olan yapının enerji performans izlemesi 2022 yılı içerisinde kesikli/tekrarlı periyod yöntemi kullanılarak gerçekleştirilmiştir. Yapı konumuna ait dış iklim verileri, iç mekân sıcaklık (oC), iç mekan bağıl nem (%), kullanıcı varlığı (%), aydınlatma elemanlarının açık/kapalı durumları (%), yapı gaz tüketimi (kWh), yapı elemanları ısıl geçirgenlik katsayıları (W/m2K) uygun cihazlar ve yöntemler kullanılarak izlenmiştir. Tüm mevsim sezonlarından elde edilen yapı izleme verileri, uluslararası standartlar olan ASHRAE 55 ve ISO 7730’a göre değerlendirilmiş standartlarda yer alan iç mekan ısıl konfor şartlarınca yapı içi ısıl durumu incelenmiştir. Ele alınan vakanın standartlarda yer alan ısıl konfor şartlarını yüksek oranda sağlamadığı tespit edilmiştir. Ulaşılan tespite yönelik yapı kabuğu, sızdırmazlık, kullanıcı faktörü gibi parametreler değerlendirmeye alınmış ve ilerleyen çalışmalar için detay araştırma noktaları belirlenmiştir.

Buildings may become functionally obsolete before they reach the end of their service life due to changing social, economic, and technological contexts. A building may undergo one or more transformations during its service life since decreased utility, vacancy, or demolition are not economically, socially, culturally, or environmentally viable options. Buildings with adaptable capacities offer effective solutions for responding to change and creating a sustainable built environment. The present study sought to clarify concepts related to adaptable architecture and develop a criteria-based evaluation approach to assess adaptability parameters in existing buildings. A criteria set was developed based on the literature to define adaptability strategies and parameters and their interconnected spatial, functional, and structural relationships that facilitated change. The magnitude of potential change was weighted and converted to adaptability scores. The adaptability evaluation criteria set was used to assess the adaptability scores of several architectural examples and the findings indicated that the criteria set could be used as both a quantitative and a qualitative evaluation tool.

Throughout human history, architecture has moved beyond being merely a means of meeting the need for shelter; it has evolved into a dynamic discipline standing at the intersection of aesthetics, technology, social values, and spatial politics. However, the global ecological crises, rapid urbanization, technological acceleration, and socio-economic transformations brought by the 21st century compel us to radically rethink both educational practices in academia and implementation methods in the field. This transformation is creating new connections between architectural theory, pedagogy, urban design, building physics, and emerging building simulation technologies. Architectural Practice, Theory, and Education: Technical Details and Spatial Solutions brings together studies that reflect this multidisciplinary evolution. The chapters explore radical pedagogy and crisis-driven urban studios, user-centered neighborhood parks developed through university-local government collaboration, the fragmented continuity and spatial legibility of abandoned industrial heritage through the olive oil factories of Edremit Bay, socio-technical frameworks analyzing the building performance gap, and Finite Element Method (FEM) alongside artificial intelligence-based sound insulation predictions in building acoustics. Despite their different scales and application areas, these studies share a common direction: building strong bridges between theoretical discourse and practical space, as well as macro-urban decisions and micro-technical details. From the institutional limits of radical pedagogy to the design of urban green infrastructure at the neighborhood scale, from the interpretation and continued legibility of abandoned industrial structures to diagnosing socio-technical discrepancies in building performance, and from these discrepancies to multi-scale acoustic detailing solutions, this volume highlights how holistic architectural approaches can address both present and future urban and structural challenges. I believe that the real value of architectural design and intelligent building systems lies not only in their ability to produce physical results, but also in their capacity to make environmental uncertainty manageable, spaces more equitable, and technical decisions more trustworthy for human experience. In this respect, the studies presented in this volume represent different perspectives on a common scientific objective: building more capable, interpretable, and resilient spatial systems that truly interact with humans and the environment. I hope this book will contribute to researchers, academics, students, and professionals working across architecture, urban planning, and building sciences, while also inspiring new interdisciplinary studies between theory and practice. I would like to thank all contributing authors, reviewers, and supporting institutions for their valuable efforts in bringing this collective volume to completion.