Examination of Traditional Buildings in terms of LCA: LEED assessment of Diyarbakır Houses
Tuna Taygun G. (Executive), Vural S. M., Darçın P., Aykal F. D.
Project Supported by Higher Education Institutions, BAP Research Project, 2012 - 2015
- Project Type: Project Supported by Higher Education Institutions
- Support Program: BAP Research Project
- Begin Date: November 2012
- End Date: November 2015
Project Abstract
It is known that the processes of a
building are determined by effects of the shape on interactions between
environments of building. Therefore,
these effects gain importance during the evaluation of a building in terms of
environment. In the world, there are many traditional settlements and
buildings, which have been produced by public experience and qualified as
eco-friendly in many scientific analyses. Nevertheless, it can be observed that
modern design approaches have produced many buildings which have contributed to
environmental problems. Attempts of decreasing the harm on the environment have
generated certain popularized evaluation methods, one of which is LEED
certification system produced by USGBC. LEED 2009 v.3 LEED for Homes basically
questions the environmental effects of a residential building. In the research,
three traditional houses of old Diyarbakır settlement, which has been proved to
have successful environmental relations and architectural solutions, were
evaluated. Although, it was assumed that these houses could have taken very
high points due to their eco-friendly properties, the result of the evaluation
revealed that, the houses cannot be graded with enough points to be certified.
The main reasons of this outcome can be determined as inapplicability of
existing evaluation systems to traditional buildings, the lack of regional and
spatial architectural and eco-friendly solutions and and obligation of certain
building products in the coverage of
these systems. Therefore, to recompose a new type of a properly organized,
integrative and holistic evaluation method, which is applicable to traditional
buildings, encounters different architectural solutions and evaluates according
to a more balanced scoring system, is being proposed.