Design for PV-integrated smart urban furniture

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2024-8-26

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Kantaş, Yasin

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Urban furniture has always been integrational part of cities. They have the potential as social spaces as well as acting as a resting space in the urban context. In recent years the new term Smart Urban Furniture brought about new services and uses for urban furniture rather than serving as public meeting space. Smart urban furniture is equipped with chargers and other energy demanding services. It also contributes to the development of environment respected implementations. Recent concerns of climate change have forced urban living in many ways. The design and working principle of urban furniture has also been an essential part of this concern. While providing people services and a comfortable space for various activities, to reach this goal with clean energy is the main focus. In order to supply energy to the Urban furniture, PV panels are the main tools. PV energy generation also has the potential to power e-mobility in cities, furthering efforts in the de-carbonization of transport systems. However, while taking into consideration the energy needs, urban furniture design lacks two main essential elements in practice: The architectural concern of design, and analysis based design methodology. The method is based on the analysis of the climate, physical environment, various formal characteristics, materials as well as the materials of construction. Modularity is another design criterion, which allows the flexibility, adaptability and scalability of the proposed designs. As a result, future potentials to use the method for different contexts is also discussed in this thesis study.

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Smart Urban Furniture, Urban Photovoltaics, E-Mobility, Thermal Comfort, Architectural Integrity

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/111280

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis