Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
The El-Cezerî Journal of Science and Engineering (ECJSE), cilt.13, sa.2, ss.255-273, 2026 (Scopus)
Biological organisms in nature vary in their thermal adaptation strategies according to the cold or hot climatic conditions they live in. In this study, a building envelope design, which provides a two-way function of both gaining the heat needed in cold climate conditions and preventing the heat gain in hot climate conditions was studied. The morphological features and adaptation behaviors of organisms living in extreme temperature conditions in nature to keep their body and nest temperatures in the optimum range were examined with biomimetic design methodology approach. When the adaptation skills of biological organisms in the transition to different seasons were taken as reference, it was seen that dynamism is necessary to apply a similar adaptation to structures for the effective use of energy. The dynamism of design proposals of the kinetic building envelope is obtained by combining morphological structures with smart materials. Contrary to existing one-way adapting building envelope designs which are costly, composed of mechanical components, and bring difficulties to be implemented on buildings, a comprehensive and technology-free approach was brought. Three ideas designed with a synthesizing approach that can adapt to both conditions were proposed. In order to compare the thermal comfort performance among the designs, solar thermal analysis was carried out using computational-fluid-dynamics (CFD) analysis. In the end of the analysis, it was seen that the building envelope cells can increase heat gain in winter up to 5.9°C in the interior wall, while the thermal temperature load can be reduced up to 1.1°C in summer.