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Today, I join a webinar which about start up economical support program from TUBITAK. It is innovative economical, management support program. To take that support, you got to complete some educations and attend some webinars.     What is TUBITAK ? The Scientific and Technological Research Council of Turkey ( Turkish : Türkiye Bilimsel ve Teknolojik Araştırma Kurumu, TÜBİTAK) is a national agency of  Turkey  whose stated goal is to develop "science, technology and innovation" (STI) policies, support and conduct research and development, and to "play a leading role in the creation of a science and technology culture" in the country. TÜBİTAK was founded in 1963 as an autonomous public institution, governed by a Science Board. What is BiGG ? The "1512 Program" of TÜBİTAK's entrepreneurship support started in 2012. As an institution we have observed both our entrepreneurs and the companies they have established. In this process, we evalua...

Writing a research is challenging task to do in order to complex context, long time period writing, classification of big data, scaning scientific background and reach satisfactory result. While I started this period from the begining at June, I realised that there are few content about this process and especially for computational design. I found some blog's and vlog's one of these are propesed by my thesis mentor. These contents can help the direct thesis students to build their own thesis route and aim.   https://ieatbugsforbreakfast.wordpress.com/ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nXNztCLYgxc&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wd2a-OSPEL8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=x33Km7hRzP0&feature=youtu.be&list=PLGNyy-rO8GoM7uUxVfYJbccEO8eNFfr1M https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l6ZoCuzixao&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2IUZWZX4OGI&feature=youtu.be https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UoYpyY9n9YQ&feature=youtu.be https://w...

We met onur hoca who is my thesis advisor. Talked about thesis process and aims of the research. There is 3 main parts of thesis 2 of them is a subject one of them is technique. In orderly, building energy concept, neural network prediction and lastly coding language as C#. I started coding and energy practice early days but ANN which is neural networks are quite fresh subject for me, it is better to start to get used to it idea and create more and more awareness. In addition to this issue, we are planning to create flow chart of thesis work process in order to content and methodology. Planned Flowchart Thesis subject of building energy consumption prediction model formation  1. use epw with eliminated version - schedule - location 2. data collection with sensors ( humidity, temperature, illumination, etc.) 3. data record - analyses - categorize 1 4. data extracting building energy simulation 5. data record - analyses - categorize of 3 6. compare data of 1 and da...

Today was exhausted. I just focus on C# language which can work efficiently with grasshopper. I aim to create a new plug in that is the reason I am choosing learn coding. It is also good for a person who can not understand comprehensibly digital technologies but intented to learn it. For today, I took advice about working methodology. Instead of dividing jobs into one day, it is more efficient to work daily program for one subject. C#, A.N.N, EnergyPlus, Academic paper reading. That's better to focus.   Stay cool. References + Links : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Yr1EorWIoEM&list=PLKnjBHu2xXNPKBD9ZatMx5XHFIekWIU78&index=5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0f7LyF9i-k8&list=PLKnjBHu2xXNPKBD9ZatMx5XHFIekWIU78&index=6 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ld6UKzOsas&index=7&list=PLKnjBHu2xXNPKBD9ZatMx5XHFIekWIU78 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fJLpxo1i6BU&list=PLKnjBHu2xXNNiJdlhiEl_RMkK0PbJ1_DB&index=5 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NclSvh5...

Today was full day of seminer which is about nearly zero energy building design. Seminer was at Egean University and made by Passivhaus-Institut. There are 5 key elements about NZEB :  Insulation ( lower U value) Thermal bridge-free Windows / doors ( expensive) (comfort) Air tightness Mechanical ventilation (creates more balanced temperatures) So to continue other issues. Building occurs lower campactness (exterior surfaces / volume) equal to 0.7. Management of windows about driection and sizes. Total continuous insulation is important. Windows are directly related with comfort and U-value should be lower than 0.8 W/m2K. Mechanical ventilation controls indoor temperature against heat loss. Air tightness prevent heet loss and support indoor heat balance. We have seen also PHPP that means Passive House Planning Package program that define passive energy performanc of buildings. Program works with excel. You can check seminer presentation from google drive link a...

It is a good time to improve  skills. The road started aiming to construct building energy consumption program. It continues with deeper energy knowledge (themes, units, workflows, etc.) and mathematical equations such as neural networks and optimization algorithms. Day by day many professions goes through coding base artificial algoritms. Architecture discipline can not escape this general tendance. Directly it effects the discipline because of the collaborative workflow. As an personal idea, It was great decision to join MSTAS.2017. It was effective to learn computational discipline basics and understand my position as an architect because  my bachelor education constructed on design base education system because of the conventional architectural education background. This is not wrong but it needs to enlarge theoritical background and jump thhrough several new disicplines. I was complicated about learning coding and advanced energy learning, still sometimes think in a sam...

Thesis contains two main concept these are energy and neural networks to construct building energy consumption energy model. So, it is important to get knowledge about energy by the main resource which is EnergyPlus. EnergyPlus is free software that develops by U.S.A. Energy department. It all started after 1970 oil crisis. Buildings spend %40 percent of total energy and to decrease and control energy need  they have created database with several calculation method such as sub-hourly, etc. I have decided to focus all refined data to understand better the basics of energy. I realised that EnergyPlus has intention to encourage people to create programs works with EnergyPlus. Simultaneously, I am processing the C# learning form youtube because it will be needed to code ANN and understand the code based data's such as C++ which is the language of Energyplus. C# is object oriented language but energy-plus is more than that so developers choose to use C++ to code to software...

“Everybody in this country should learn to program a computer, because it teaches you how to think”                                                                                                                                           Steve Jobs Somedays are fulfilled with working some days goes for vacation some are just a day. After 8 hours bus travelling from Ankara  to Izmir today was full recovery for my body and brain to balance location change. Just 2 hours C# plug in to grasshopper plug in capture my day as work. Because before start tutorials, I made pre-search about code learning and I read that it can be us...

The last day of METU has started early as yesterday. Different clothes same breakfast. 15th june of conference was 3 session and my collegues and I present our work at first session of second day. First session has started with a research about computational language detection of all papers of MSTAS since 2007 and they working result shows that there is a lack of language translation from english to turkish and it defects terminologic outcomes. We faced this problem also while we were writing the conference paper of MSTAS. Committee realised that all papers has used different turkish words for same english provision. I think for this complicated situation I will start computational english-turkish dictionary. After that discussion we got on the stage and perform well. A professor from Itu proposed us to contact a big company and use their design and material data to enlarge our effort and one of the paper owner mention about cultural center construction. Mechanical engineers claim th...

First day in Ankara started fast. Early in the morning waking up to prepare for conference. Inside Metu (middle east technical university) my friend Uğur take me to a place where is near bus stop to breakfast. 'Arkabahçe' is place that you can get your meal to your plate and you pay as what you got. About 09:00, we get on the ring and arrived to faculty of architecture at 09:10. Conference room is near the entrance of faculty  that's how I can find easily the crowd. My thesis partner Gökhan and I were existed th see such an activity about computational design approach.  Meeting  started at 9.45 with Prof.Dr.Arzu Gönenç speech. She talked about history of MSTAS which started 2007 at same place in the Architecture Faculty of Metu and after that conference has started. There were 10 presentations and the content was big long to explain one by one I will mentionfew about hot topics. Firstly, faculty of architecture has started new tech laboratory wnich students can  im...

Today, I gave a break thesis working because I had to go out from the city for conference. 14-15 june there is conference at METU that is called MSTAS.17. To clear the content of conference, it is computational researches and improvement at Architectural discipline. For this conference, we made a research of optimization problem and optimization algorithms forms from parameters and objective. Our definition contains UDI100-2000lux and yearly total energy consumption of building ( heating, cooling, articial lightning consumption ) as objectives and for the optimization algorithm we examine meta-heuristic optimization that is called 'HypE'. For the parameters we decide two types parameters first units are design parameters the other units material decisions.  We are strongly believe that it will be important to meet same working methodologies. Mstas is community to enlarge computational perspective at architecture community.       Links: MSTAS.17: http://mstas20...

I am Orçun Koral İşeri and I am master student of Computational Design and Energy at Yaşar University. Today is the first day of these daily writings. It will mostly contains issues about thesis. Of course I will talk about life period also :) Today I started search about Rıfat Sönmez who is civil engineer lecturer at METU . His field of interest focuses on pre-design cost optimization with ANN for construction and he can extract range estimation with ANN which is valuable fır my thesis. Tomorrow I will read and mail to him to contact face to face at Metu. Additionally, i am trying to form up a working order to optimize my working strategy and decrease the percentage of donkey work so a list I applied to on my wall that is called 'daily work * fun' it contains C# / ANN for C# / how can written or scientific text ? / at least reading and form up the summary of 2 beneficial research paper / EnergyPlus reading to learn more major points of energy at buildings. It is goo...