Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
Livenarch-VII 2021; OTHER ARCHITECT/URE(S) Congress, Trabzon, Türkiye, 28 - 30 Eylül 2021, cilt.1, ss.197-213
The study was conducted to measure architects' perspectives on the
environmental conditions of Earth-sheltered structures. The basic problem
is that earth-shelter structures or underground architecture give bias to
people. The hypothesis is with the modern earth-sheltered examples and
accurate terminology, prejudices may be broken. And the research starts
with the process of Earth-sheltered structures in history and future
expectations. The study is based on s web-based survey. Description of the
earth-shelter term was expressed to samples with the help of sections and
definitions. Visual, thermal, acoustical and air quality comfort condition are
asked to the samples on the web-based questionnaire. The literature
searched for the subjects of "Earth-sheltered Buildings", "Sustainability",
"Cave dwelling", "Building Physics Conditions of Underground Houses”.
People close to the field of architecture were aware of such structures, but
it was also observed that most of the subjects did not experience earthsheltered buildings. The function of the building is also an important item for
subjects. Towards two types of function, people broke bias about earthshelter housing especially the prejudgments about visual and air quality
comfort conditions. The fact that such structures, which have been used
since the history of humanity, are suitable for human habitat, is evident by
their use by people for many generations. The preconceptions against the
Earth-shelter structure will be broken by increasing information and building
examples