Tez Türü: Yüksek Lisans
Tezin Yürütüldüğü Kurum: Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi, Türkiye
Tez Danışmanı: Prof. Dr. Arzu Sorguç
Tezin Onay Tarihi: 2022
Tezin Dili: İngilizce
Özet:
The population growth and the pace of urbanization lead to increasing demand for infrastructure and new buildings and increased consumption of products and services. Eliminating waste by developing more sustainable and durable solutions to build without overusing resources and minimizing environmental impacts has come to mean rethinking the way we design, build, use, maintain and operate our buildings. In this vein, together with the increasing importance of lightweight structural design, material efficiency and other environmental issues, this thesis aims to provide a framework for the design of structural load-bearing elements derived from bone morphology, that is controllable, adaptable to different loading conditions and environmentally controllable. When design parameters such as light weight, durability and efficiency are sought, the potential of lattice structures as an attractive solution is quite high rather than conventional design alternatives. The thesis values bone as a source of information model to structural transformation processes in design. Bone as one of the cellular materials found in nature, has anisotropic material properties, reproducing and reshaping itself in response to vi mechanical stresses and load. It is, therefore, one of the most important examples of structurally efficient, strong, optimized and lightweight natural systems. This thesis explores the potential to design modular and material-informed building components that can be programmed according to bone morphology. Material, structure, form and performance are key concerns in exploring architectural possibilities and designing transformable interfaces. It aims to integrate generative logic, algorithmic and computational design with emerging technologies, fabrication technologies and biomimetic design principles to find new tectonic and material conditions to design modular, scalable and transformable structural building elements.