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The paper focuses on the LEED rating system of Diyarbakir Houses to an assessment with respect to "Innovation in Design Process and Location & Linkages", assuming to conduct a trial of the building assessment and certification systems, which were highly popular in Europe and in the U.S. in the 1990s and in Turkey in the 2000s, on the "traditional b...
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... tal interdependence between various local system scales with many positive aspects as well as ventilation and air quality. It is believed that, local builders, who had a comprehensive knowledge about the region, had idealized some architectural organizations by trial and error over centuries (Tuna Taygun, et al., 2015). In this context, although supplying clean and conditioned air was organized as wise architectural design solutions, it can be tracked in time that these design practices and local solutions have been overseen; difficult to transfer to contemporary architectural design processes or cannot find their counter examples in current assessment methods. ...
... Vernacular Diyarbakır Settlement and houses are unique in the region, designed with deep understanding of environmental factors related to both outdoor and indoor environments and users' concerns such as dominant climate, social structure, properties of local building materials and systems, etc. (Tuna Taygun, et al., 2015) It can be observed that the design organizations of these built environments include proper solutions to meet users' requirements which occur in consequence of climatic and social interactions. In order to meet one of these needs, breathing clean, pollutant free air in appropriate temperature and humidity conditions, the outdoor and indoor environments and building envelope were designed and organized with proper indigenous and place specific architectural solutions. ...
Many building assessment systems are criticized due to focusing on individual building performance. However, in order to be truly positive, the effects of different aspects of a built environment should be considered through correlative impacts across different scales. Ventilation and air related properties are among these important effects. With the aim of exemplifying architectural design solutions, a vernacular settlement in the southeast of Turkey: Diyarbakır and its houses are examined with a systematic evaluation approach through architectural design under three phases. In the first phase, outdoor environment components which induce or effect air movements are examined and evaluated along with user properties. Aspects of ventilation, building envelope and indoor environment of Diyarbakır houses are analyzed in the second phase. The last phase is the evaluation of houses in terms of ventilation efficiency by relating user requirements with acquired properties of air and ventilation. With this examination, many architectural features as passive systems are revealed in order to condition and move the air. Additionally, based on findings, it can be interpreted that presuming the built environment as a part of bigger and smaller systems may create net positive results for humans and other systems of the place.
