ANALYZING THERMAL COMFORT OF TRANSITIONAL SPACES THROUGH CLIMATE-RESPONSIVE DESIGN SOLUTIONS

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Amount of green spaces in the cities has gradually decreased and left its place to rapid construction as a result of the rapid increase in population and urbanization, causing the temperature difference between the city and the rural area to increase, resulting in the formation of Urban Heat Island (UHI) in cities. The necessity to create comfortable areas in dense cities increases the intensity of energy usage, requiring multi-layered studies to mitigate the urban heat island effect by developing climate-responsive design methodologies that are resistant to the impact of changing climatic conditions on the urban form and building envelope. This research aims to assess the efficacy of user comfort-based climate-responsive design techniques in mitigating the urban heat island effect. Within the scope of the study, the performance of mediating transition spaces between indoor and outdoor environments and climate-responsive design solutions on user comfort has been examined holistically, from neighborhood scale to building scale. Thus, as a strategy to reduce the urban heat island effect, it proposes using transitional spaces as a passive cooling strategy with climate-responsive design solutions.

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Transitional Spaces, Climate-Responsive Design, Urban Heat Island

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Ü. N. Ulu, “ANALYZING THERMAL COMFORT OF TRANSITIONAL SPACES THROUGH CLIMATE-RESPONSIVE DESIGN SOLUTIONS,” M.Arch. - Master of Architecture, Middle East Technical University, 2023.