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Article From Desperation To Best Practice: Spatial Decision-Making in the Regeneration of Gyldenrisparken(Henry Stewart Publications, 2024) Bican,N.B.Post-war social housing estates in Europe have been undergoing wide-scale regeneration to improve the physical decay of these sites and address the concentration of vulnerable residents in these areas, which has resulted in their social segregation, marginalisation and stigmatisation. As these estates cover and affect quite large public spaces, holistic approaches have recently been adopted. Bearing in mind that each regeneration case is unique, this paper describes the collaborative approach taken in the regeneration of Gyldenrisparken in Denmark, which evolved from a desperate situation to a best practice case. The paper focuses on the spatial decision-making process — in particular, how the architectural quality of physical interventions was established and how participatory mechanisms were utilised and developed to enable liveable spaces and sustainable regeneration. Making use of a combination of qualitative documentary analysis and in-depth interviews with key actors, this study encompasses the whole regeneration process, including initiatives taken by the housing association and municipal agents, the methodology developed to collect ideas and implement them in the physical design of the public spaces, and the social effort to make the whole process sustainable and the estates liveable. It concludes that post-war estates have the potential to secure their future by embracing physical and social efforts through proactive empowerment strategies and creating new spatial identities. © 2024, Henry Stewart Publications. All rights reserved.Article Traffic Policies for Sustainable Traditional Environments: the Case of Ankara Citadel(2015) Elker, CüneytTraditional environments were built in conformity with social, cultural and technological circumstances that shape their chronological and geographical framework. The absence of motor vehicles was their common characteristics at the times they were built and developed. This is probably the principal reason of the sense of human scale that rules these environments. Consequently, vehicular traffic is one of the main factors affecting negatively traditional environments. Besides various factors such as pollution, noise, etc. motor traffic ruins the social life and the human scale that exist in traditional settlements. Urban transportation modes have dissimilar physical and technical characteristics affecting urban environment in different ways. This diversity of properties creates the possibility of formulating alternative policies by supporting or discouraging the use of particular transportation modes.Article Citation - WoS: 8Citation - Scopus: 9Refrigeration Technology in Anatolian Seljuk and Ottoman Period Hospitals(Gazi Univ, 2014) Ozcan, Zuhal; Disli, Gulsen; Interior Architecture and Environmental DesignThe precise identification of ancient refrigeration systems is problematic, since nearly every technological advance is the result of long accumulation of human experience shaped according to the environmental, cultural, social and climatic conditions of the period and region. Besides, the scarcity of firsthand documentary records doubles the problem. Therefore, in the course of the discussions, being aware of the difficulties of the subject matter, it was an important phase to fill the gap in the area of history of refrigeration technology by the help of the hospital cases in Anatolia. It takes the form of a case study that focuses as much on the context and motives for the possible refrigeration technologies used and applied in historical hospital buildings.Article Recent Sprawl and Shrinkage Policies Deployed in the Sphere of Urban Management in Turkey: the Case of Ankara(2014) Gültekin, TanjuThe city is a comprehensive, dynamic phenomenon which, in different forms, changes perpetually. The mission of urban management is to steer the change in a public and societal manner. Urban planning, on the other hand, is one of the most rational tools that will render the management fair, participating, reconciling and transparent characteristics. Within the framework of this approach, and within the scope of urban management and planning, the aim of this study is to explain the process of altering the urban space via urban sprawl and shrinkage policies, which are simultaneous and yet are triggered by differing factors and preferences. On the management level, generating urban policies for the implementations regarding the utilization of the land and space with different potentialities constitutes the ground for this context (Feagin, Gottdiener, 1988).Article Citation - WoS: 4Citation - Scopus: 3NOISE FACTORS IN HEALTHCARE FACILITIES: A SURVEY OF HOSPITALS IN TURKEY(Middle East Technical Univ, 2012) Bal Kocyigit, Filiz; Architecture[No Abstract Available]Article Citation - WoS: 1Citation - Scopus: 2A NEW METHODOLOGY FOR ANALYSIS OF SPATIAL INTERVENTIONS TOWARDS SUSTAINABILITY IN SOCIAL HOUSING REGENERATION - THE CASE OF GYLDENRISPARKEN IN COPENHAGEN (1)(Middle East Technical Univ, 2020) Bican, Nezih BurakHousing settlements have been regenerated in recent decades across the world, particularly those built in Europe for social purposes in the post-war period. As unique sets of problems accumulate in each case, interventions tend to address individual issues of different scales and localities. This study aims to contribute to housing research with a focus on the regenerative spatial interventions of urban design and architecture and their tangible reflection on sustainability. The research work, including related documentation reviews and interviews with critical stakeholders, examines in detail a regeneration case of social housing estate in Copenhagen - Gyldenrisparken - regarded as an international best practice. The estate was a settlement built in the 1960s, legally listed as 'ghetto' in the 2000s, and regenerated between 2004 and 2015 through an unprecedentedly collaborative project in Denmark. Exploring the regeneration of social housing through the concepts of liveability, place making, and sustainability, this study introduces a methodological tool which solidifies in form of a three-dimensional matrix accompanied by perspective illustrations in three scales. By this means, it registers and classifies each individual spatial intervention, discovers the relations among them and their intended goals, and builds up a new basis of knowledge for later regenerations. The tool developed bridges the theory of sustainability with the practice of regenerative design, while providing a basis of systematization and comparison for other cases aiming future implementations and decision-makers of different scales.Article The Use of Multicriteria Decision Methods in Planning and Design(2015) Elker, CüneytFields associated with design and physical planning are appropriate domains for the use of multicriteria decision methods. Various methods are compared and “weighted summation” technique is put forward as the most suitable method for the needs of design and planning. The case of city planning is used to illustrate the methodology. The phases of “design of alternatives”, “determination of objectives and criteria” and “evaluation” are described with the help of examples. The paper concludes with principles and problems in the use of multicriteria decision methods in design and planning.Article Towards More Rational Approaches in Architectural Design: the Use of Multi-Criteria Decision Methods(2015) Elker, CüneytToday, scientific approaches are far from being adequately exploited in these fields of design and physical planning. However, the structure of these disciplines requires the use of rational techniques particularly during the decision process. In the paper, the structure of decision problems encountered in physical planning is analyzed and the need for the use of rational methods is demonstrated. Available methods are compared and a multi-criteria technique is put forward as the most suitable method for architectural design. The proposed methodology is illustrated through the case of the design of patients’ floor in a hospital.
