Research

Research Groups / Laboratories

URBAN & HOUSING LAB

It is aimed to reflect and allow current information and technologicel development that respond to interdisciplinary research, application and in-house requirements at national and international level based on sustainability, community benefit and environmental awareness.In this context Urban and Housing Research Laboratory:

• Supporting education and training,
• Orginazing national and international meetings,
• Organizing national and international shorterm courses,
• Publish all types of reserach outputs,

In the laboratory, urban and housing research will be carried out in a multidisciplinary manner. It will be ensured that the widespread experience of laboratory, the development of research within interaction of public and private sector and transferring it to the field of application. The Urban and Housing Laboratory works together with IAPS Culture and Space Network.

IAPS CS NETWORK Prof. (PhD) Hülya Turgut (Network Coordinator) (hülya.turgut@ozyegin.edu.tr) , Prof.( PhD) Orhan Hacıhasanoğlu (Network founder member) (orhan.hacihasanoglu@ozyegin.edu.tr), Prof. (PhD) Alper Ünlü (Network founder member) (alper.unlu@ozyegin.edu.tr)

IAPS Culture and Space Network was established in 1997 as one of the networks of IAPS (International Association for People Environment Studies). IAPS CS Network organizes international and national symposiums, national workshops, and publish books, selected articles dossiers and special dossiers in journals

URL
http://iaps-association.org/networks/culture-and-space/
https://www.facebook.com/IapsCsNetwork
http://www.iaps-culturespace.org/

Urban and Housing Lab Director: Prof. Hülya Turgut (PhD), (hülya.turgut@ozyegin.edu.tr)  URL: http://labs.ozyegin.edu.tr/urbanandhousing/  

SPATIAL SYSTEMS RESEARCH LABORATORY

Spatial Analysis Laboratory is the laboratory where the analyzes of architectural and urban spaces are carried out with the help of Space Syntax.

Measurement of the Relationship Between Space Fiction and User Behavior: User-Oriented Approaches to Urban Square Arrangements in Çeper District Municipalities of Istanbul - Research Project Senior Lecturer (PhD) Ayşe Özbil Torun (Spatial Systems Research Lab Founder – Northumbria University - ayse.torun@northumbria.ac.uk), 

Spatial Systems Lab Director: Prof.Alper Ünlü (PhD) (alper.unlu@ozyegin.edu.tr),   URL: http://labs.ozyegin.edu.tr/spatialsystems/  

DYNAMIC RESEARCH ON URBAN MORPHOLOGY LAB

The DRUM (Dynamic Research on Urban Morphology) research group focuses on the diachronic aspect or urban and territorial transformations; it welcomes the expertise of Architects, Urban Planners, and Urban Morphologists including broad interdisciplinary cooperation with other disciplines such as Geography, History and Archaeology.

The research group aims to describe the dynamics of urban growth in different morphological and geographical settings by comparing a number of relevant case studies in capital cities. The research group applies the comparative method and other analytic tools, such as GIS, Space Syntax, Typological plans, Conzenian analysis at different scales and within different chronological phases to understand the past and above all, to design the future of large cities. Director of DRUM Lab Assoc. Prof. Alessandro Camiz (alessandro.camiz@ozyegin.edu.tr) , URL: http://labs.ozyegin.edu.tr/drum/  

VIRTUAL REALITY (VR) LABORATORY

Virtual Reality (VR) is a laboratory equipped with the infrastructure and equipment suitable for conducting research, experiments and applications of virtual reality applications. Virtual Reality Lab Director: Instructor Can Bora Sezer ( bora.sezer@ozyegin.edu.tr) 

URL: http://vr.ozyegin.edu.tr/

MEDIA LABORATORY

The Media Laboratory provides a suitable environment and equipment for research, student studies and lectures on photography, video, documentary cinema, film. Media Lab Director: Assistant Prof.  Metin Çavuş (PhD) (metin.cavus@ozyegin.edu.tr) URL:  http://labs.ozyegin.edu.tr/medialab/

USER EXPERIENCE (UX) LABORATORY

It is the laboratory where user experience and interaction experience are carried out. User Experience (UX) Lab Director: Assistant Prof. Zeynep Karapars (PhD)- (zeynep.karapars@ozyegin.edu.tr)  URL:

BUILDING MATERIALS  AND  PHYSICS LABORATORY

The Building Materials and Physics Laboratory of the Faculty of Architecture and Design of Özyeğin University is aimed to carry out the research studies in the field of “Building Science”. It is also intended to constitute a platform which is either giving related lectures at the undergraduate and graduate levels or providing consultancy to the private and public sector. The research area of the laboratory can be summarized as:

• Building Energy Systems
• Energy Efficient Building Design and Renovation
• Nearly Zero/Zero Energy Building Design and Renovation
• Energy-Cost Analyses
• Renewable Energy Systems
• Climate Change Adaptation
• Cost Optimum Energy Efficient Building Design and Renovation
• Building energy performance modelling and detailed dynamic simulations
• Consultancy and Energy Modelling Servicing for Various Building Certificate Systems (LEED, BREEAM, ÇEDBİK etc.) 
• Sustainable Architectural Design 
• Green Building Design
• Building Materials
• Ecological Architecture
• Lifecycle Analyses
• Indoor Environment Quality (IEQ)
• Occupancy Comfort
•  Lighting in Buildings
• Natural and Artificial Lighting Systems
• Lighting Energy Efficiency 
• Visual Comfort
• Building Acoustics
•  Energy Efficiency at Urban Scale
• Energy efficiency at Smart Cities
• Heat Islands
• Energy-efficient Site Design

Building Physics and Materials Lab Coordinators are Assistant Prof. Dr. Touraj Ashrafian [Turaj Arda Aşrafi] ( touraj.ashrafian@ozyegin.edu.tr ); Assistant Prof. Dr. Neşe Ganiç Sağlam ( nese.saglam@ozyegin.edu.tr ): Assistant Prof. Dr. Ece Özdemir ( ece.kalaycioglu@ozyegin.edu.tr ). URL: http://labs.ozyegin.edu.tr/bmplab/ 

LANDSCAPE RESEARCH LABORATORY

The Landscape Research Lab (LRL) at ÖzÜ produces theoretical and applied research platform that facilitates the design for all manner of sustainable landscape at the urban and rural environment. LRL handles the determination of landscape characteristics, landscape components and elements in a holistic way. Natural, semi natural or totally manmade characteristics of landscape are the subjects of the research for future developments to promote healthy communitiesand challenge epistemological capacities of the subject area. Thus, LRL aims to work collaboratively to search the contemporary strategieson the relationships between natural environment and the specificities of built infrastructurevia education,interdisciplinary research, and innovation for the following areas and their sub themes:Resilient Cities, Green&Blue Infrastructure, Disaster Risk Reduction, Landscape Ecology, Landscape Heritage.

LRL Lab  researchers: Assitant Prof.(PhD) Beyza Şat Güngör, (beyza.gungor@ozyegin.edu.tr);Assistant Prof. (PhD) Doğa Dinemis Aman (dinemis.aman@ozyegin.edu.tr): LRL Director: Assistant Prof. (PhD) Beyza Şat Güngör (beyza.gungor@ozyegin.edu.tr); URL: http://labs.ozyegin.edu.tr/lrl/

ARCHITECTURAL DESIGN RESEARCH LABORATORY

Architectural Design Research Laboratory is a platform that produces theoretical and practical knowledge through design and contributes to the design of qualified living environments. The main objectives of the laboratory are to create sharing and production environments such as seminars, workshops that bring together different actors of the architectural design environment and to develop research projects focused on architectural design. The laboratory also aims to allow students to experience the different stages and roles of the research and design process and, in this direction, cooperates with the architectural design office simulator (MITOS). Architectural Design Rezearch Laboratory Director: İlker Özorhon (PhD) (İlker.ozorhon@ozyegin.edu.tr ) Lab e-mail: adrlab@ozyegin.edu.tr   URL:  http://labs.ozyegin.edu.tr/adr/ 

RESEARCH PROJECTS

• TUBITAK 1001, "Mekan Kurgusu ve Kullanıcı Davranışı Arasındaki İlişkinin Ölçümlenmesi: İstanbul Çeper İlçe Belediyelerindeki Kent Meydanı Düzenlemelerine Kullanıcı Odaklı Yaklaşımlar", 2015-2018, yürütücü: Y. Doç. Dr. Ayşe Özbil Torun
• TUBITAK 3501, “Fiziksel Aktiviteyi Teşvik Edici Yapılaşmış Çevre Etmenleri ile Obeziteyi Önlemek: İlköğretim Öğrencilerinde Okula Yürüyerek Erişim", 2014-2016, yürütücü: Y. Doç. Dr. Ayşe Özbil Torun
• TUBITAK 1001, "Zaman-Mekânsal Haritalama Yöntemi İle Üniversite Yerleşkerinde Dış Mekânların Kullanım Sonrası Değerlendirmesi", 2015-2018, yürütücü: Y. Doç. Dr. Özgür Göçer
• BRITISH COUINCIL, “Designpreneurship: Why Creatives Need to Become Entrepreneurs for Economic Growth and International Competitiveness”, 2017, yürütücü: Prof. Dr. Alpay Er,

PUBLISHING - BOOKS (ÖZYEĞİN UNIVERSITY PRESS)

• Yazıcı, S., C. Akoğlu, A.Özbil Torun, I. Tekçe, Ü. C. Bayazıtoğlu (Eds.) XI. Mimarlıkta Sayısal Tasarım Ulusal Sempozyumu MSTAS 2015;Sürdürülebilir Sayısal Ekolojiler; Sayısal Tasarım, Malzeme, Başarım Bildiriler Kitabı (XI National Symposium on Computational Design in Architecture MSTAS 2015: Sustainable Computational Ecologies; Computational Design,Materials, Performance Poceedings) ,2015, İstanbul; Özyeğin Üniversitesi Yayınları
• Özorhon, G., İ.F. Özorhon, Ü.C. Bayazıtoğlu (Eds.) ; MİTA 2015, Mimari Tasarım Araştırmaları Ulusal Sempozyumu: 21. Yüzyıl Bildiriler Kitabı, (MITA 2015 National Symposium on Architectural Design Research: 21 Cenctury Proceedings); 2016, Özyeğin Üniversitesi Yayınları,
• Uddin, M. S., M. Şahin, A. Özbil Torun, Ü. C. Bayazıtoğlu (Eds.) , DCA 2016; 2016 Design Communication European Conference Proceedings: Inclusiveness in Design;2016, Istanbul, Özyeğin University Press.

     

• Hacıhasanoğlu, O., H. Turgut, C. Bayazıtoğlu (Eds.), “Bellek , İzler ve Kent: Şişli Bomonti / Memory, Traces and the City”, 2018, İstanbul; Özyegin Üniversitesi Yayınları, ISBN: 978-605-5625-11-5
• Uddin, M. S., M. Şahin, A. Özbil Torun, Ü. C. Bayazıtoğlu (Eds.) , DCA 2016; 2016 Design Communication European Conference Proceedings: Inclusiveness in Design;2016, Istanbul, Özyeğin University Press.ISBN: 978-605-5625-06-1.
• Turgut, H, G. Özorhon, E. Karahan, D. Mutman, Ü.C. Bayazıtoğlu, İstanbul ve Konut Kültürü: Değişim, Dönüşüm, Devamlılık/ İstanbul and Hosuing Culture: Change, Transformation, Continuity; 2018; İstanbul; Özyeğin Üniversitesi Yayınları, ISBN: 978-605-5625-14-6

      

• Friedman, A., E.Aşçıoğlu Selçuk, (Eds.) 2018, Innovative Thinking in Housing; Adaptability and Flexibility in Low Rise Apartment Building Design, Özyeğin University Press, İstanbul, 
• Çavuş, M., 2019, Yüce ve Yalnız / Sublime and Secluded, Özyeğin Üniversitesi Yayınları,