ECO ARCHITECTURE & GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP

ECO ARCHITECTURE & GLOBAL PARTNERSHIP
Keynote Speaker: Prof. Dr. Halil Semih Eryıldız *
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The below keynote was delivered at the ” Potentials of Renewable Energy in Türkiye, Eco-Architechture, and Global Partnerships” titled panel at IGEN ENERGATHON2023 on May 23, 2023, which was organized by LMGlobal.Org, in partnership with the Institution of the Green Engineers | IGEN based in India.

The knowledge, understanding & methodology of eco-design will be evolved in order to create
A RESILIENT & DESASTER RESISTANT SOCIETY.

Introduction to Eco- architecture Basic ideas& ideals, short history, and the importance of the movement.

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I- Eco-architecture- Türkiye
Turkiye had a tremendous cumulation of knowledge; literature, books, academic works, IT is only list & show the covers of them.
The problem and solution for the country are to organize more research foundations such as Adakademi or many application projects like Batıkent. In order to show the way we have chosen very specific glance in order to remind some important examples.

II- Global eco-architecture
Global progress gets very important gigantic practical works & theory is speeding up, in this presentation.

III Problems & solutions
We need to discuss more & more details, alternative materials like Adobe, strawbale structure analyses for 3D Printers for feasibility and manage more applications, Find more resources UNDP- GAP & others, more & organized to the point subsidies, promotions;

Give more local successful examples; better communications for governing bodies &financial organizations like municipalities, cooperative unions & so on crucial research & application projects
Architecture; planning design & building activities as a whole will be reorganized in order to make the planet (& universe) a LIVABLE, fair, beautiful place for all species to live in;

Using new tools of computing & 3D Printing with natural, recyclable materials, Planning efficient infrastructure, traffic & communication for the purposes. This presentation is an introduction to query why, how & which tools.

A step towards an integrated eco-city introduction

Ecosystem is the main term in this article and means everything that exists on and inside the Earth planet and within its atmosphere [All living and non-living things]. Here we will discuss the relationship of humans as the main environmental element with the rest of the other environmental elements.
Human is the most powerful environmental element that exists within this ecosystem, he uses the rest of the elements to meet all his needs and to sustain his survival.

However, in order for him to survive he needs to live in harmony and peace with the rest of the elements and to give his environmental surroundings more concern and care, which has become a fierce struggle with the rapid expansion in cities around the world.

Cities take great responsibility for being the place that includes the various causes that cause environmental degradation. Especially after the discovery of energy and the launch of the industrial revolution in Europe and then its spread throughout the world.

Because of this wide use of diverse energies, human life has become largely dependent on these energies to meet many of the essential needs that have become inherent to his life.
With this widespread use of energy, many issues began to appear and negatively affect the ecosystem and pose a serious threat to both nature and human life such as global warming, climate change, and depletion of environmental resources.

Therefore, many voices have increased calling for the necessity of finding solutions to these issues, which have become very exacerbated.

The idea of the eco-city appeared beginning in 1987 in a book published by Richard Register, and then it was developed by many environmentalists. The idea appeared mainly to address the problem of expanding cities, the increase in their population, the depletion of natural resources and the Excessive use of environmentally harmful energy.

Most of the eco-cities in the world now were built far from the traditional cities and did not address any problems arising from these cities. Therefore, this scientific article will focus on the idea of an ecological district that will be a part of the traditional city and close to its center.
this district will be a first step towards transforming traditional cities into an integrated ecocity.

Limits to growth

The reason that ecodesign is now main paradigm

•   Introduction  Basic ideas& Ideals, history, and the importance of the Eco- architecture
•   Speeded urban poverty, 
•   Pollution & global hazards 
•   as ‘mass murderer’, 
•   Spreading diseases, 
•   new epidemics, 
•   Hunger deaths, starvation, 
•   child deaths, tribal &
•   racist wars, ethnic clearances, 
•   Human greediness, fossil fuels, 
•   low quality administration, 
•   unhealthy slums, ‘El Niño’, 
•   are some headlines or 
•   leitmotives  for a very strong 
•   socio-political movement. 

Ecological architecture has deep roots in the natural world. The architecture is to be seamlessly and benignly incorporated into the environment. The design itself is to be the part of the environment.
• It uses eco – friendly materials,
• it is built eco – friendly,
• it ´lives´ sustainably &
• ´Dies´, it is dismantled to be used again.
The architecture incorporates the idea of closed loop, where everything is recyclable, because the buildings are not designed to be here for the infinite. 

Ecological architecture has deep roots in the natural world. The architecture is to be seamlessly and benignly incorporated into the environment.
The design itself is to be the part of the environment.
• It uses eco – friendly materials,
• it is built eco – friendly,
• it ´lives´ sustainably &
• ´Dies´, it is dismantled to be used again.
The architecture incorporates the idea of closed loop, where everything is recyclable, because the buildings are not designed to be here for the infinite. 
• strategies for the design and delivery of human settlements are conclusively studied.
• Evaluation of cities, encouragement of innovative thinking on new encounters,
• Transformation of existing suburbs and towns and upgrade of informal settlements are included. 
•  The principles and methodology of evolutionary design and planning are examined as a new way versus ecological or bio- (mimicry) way of reasoning in planning and design process.
• Strategies for the design and delivery of human settlements are conclusively studied.
• Evaluation of cities, encouragement of innovative thinking on new encounters,
• Transformation of existing suburbs and towns and upgrade of informal settlements are included. 
•  The principles and methodology of evolutionary design and planning are examined as a new way versus ecological or bio- (mimicry) way of reasoning in planning and design process.

II- Eco-architecture
Türkiye had a tremendous cumulation of knowledge; litereture, books, academic works, we only list & show the covers of them, more than half a centuries past working, researching, planning & building on;
I- ALTERNATIVE MATERIALS &
II- CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES
WHICH WILL TAKE THE ROOTS FROM VERNACULAR..
The problem and solution for the country
• is to organize, research foundations such as Adakademi &
• Many- MORE application projects like Batıkent. In order to show the way we have chosen very specific & crucial research & application projects

ADAKADEMİ FOUNDATION is located on Prince Islands, İstanbul Turkey. Founders are 44 prominent academicians, writers, artisans, and leaders of different social movements. Introductıon of the registration document is;
Article 1- the name of the Foundation is ADAKADEMI.
Article 2-CENTER OF THE FOUNDATION The center of the foundation is Istanbul. Address: Büyükada. With the decision of the Board of Trustees, the Foundation may open branches and representative offices at home and abroad where it deems appropriate.
Article 3- The general purpose of the Foundation is to assist those who do not have education and training in primary, secondary and higher education; to provide all kinds of assistance, to provide opportunities, to establish academies, high schools, faculties, & universities, to take over the established ones, and to make all kinds of initiatives related to them.
Foundation first invited neighbors to a friendly environment in one of the most beautiful places in our country and the world.  Most of the artists, prominent leaders, and researchers from different cultural backgrounds lived in the Islands’ richly joined environment of the World.
Therefore an interconnected communication environment in order to collect & process knowledge for our neighbors is the first aim.
The main problem of our environment, our country, and the Earth is Urbanization-Environment-Energy. For almost half a century, we, have focused on these and similar problems and concrete solutions. İt is right to time organize these studies;

• ADAKADEMİ will institutionalize them and make them permanent.
  C- Examples of education, politics and organization in the islands do not stop there.
  From the relatives of the prince and the palace, the Osmanlı princes inin of the pioneers of Ottoman literature and culture,
  PROGRESS & FOUNDATION
  As the first step, we have collected a mini specialized library containing our research files, courses, theses and books in the field of ecological planning and design in Kadıyoran 30 / A located in Büyükada. We have established a workshop and design archive where new ones can be made.  Academy purchased a Building at the center of the Island, 
   Academy reformed this Building to be the first education research and communicatıon center. There will be buildings for more advanced branches of artistic, geriatric, gastronomic centers. Every work, study or action is open to society & researchers of the world. Foundation will have at least a hundred new co-founders selected in their respective fields.
  Starting from a highly qualified arts & Crafts Schools, there are different suggestions to start. The differentiation of our initiative depends on the participants and the labor to be offered. If we succeed together, we will only be the pioneers, not the ‘owner ın of these works. In order to meet the requirements, we will meet the structures, land, and ‘collateral’ requests of all.
  In the first stage, the research-education activities start with a daily-three-day-weekly-monthly short-term seminar and summer school, and in collaboration with universities, post-graduate, master-doctoral studies, research project and application proposals are available. We plan to take the necessary additional courses as a guest student by taking advantage of the related institutions and to give courses without reciprocal polling and writing the thesis in ADAKADEMI.  For these purposes
  Foundation get the Legal Certificate & authorizations from the Turkish Ministry of Education. Many activities completed and new ones planned. Preparing in domestic and international academic environments; eco-projects that we offer to the public many times and completed to the administrations such as Ankara-İstanbul Metropolitan, GAP and United Nations Development Organization; graduate, master and doctoral studies.
  
• PRINCIPLES
  E-education is innovative practice in order to carry citizens to their highest creative potential and offers open enrollment for re-entry students, students from other professions and trades, and other promising students regardless of academic background. It offers academic credit for work in planning, design, and architectural offices. Student experimentation and visionary exploration require no student to follow any design ideology or convention, & encourage all students to find their own personal modes of expression.
  Adalar Municipality, Clean Energy Foundation (TEMEV), and Adakademi Founders for a year with the contributions, Continuing Education Center (SEM) as a working, language, and vocational courses are carried out. Adakademi Vocational School has completed the work of 20 programs under the name of academics, even two buildings are ready.
  Some of these programs are Architectural Restoration, Cookery, Sea and Port Management, Music Technologies, and Sports Management. ROAD MAP AND ANNEXES
  • The foundation deed required for the university application which we plan to start in three years is attached. This foundation is open to all friends who want and want to work. We hope and hope that the Foundation will have at least one hundred founders selected in their respective fields.
  2- In the first phase of these subjects, we planned to conduct research projects and applications for graduate, master, and doctoral studies in cooperation with universities in addition to daily-three-day-weekly-monthly short-term seminars and summer schools.
  • The program, formerly our department, the essence, registration, and exam environment will necessarily and necessarily, start from language and vocational courses, we will work together for at least two years will be the university starting from the vocational school.
  4- We have planned to take the courses that we encourage in all the studies that can be used in related places as guest students and give reciprocal lectures and thesis writing on the island.
  5- For the first phase, we prepared program drafts in coordination with a friendly University; We are working to bring the 2020 graduate program calls to the agenda. In order to avoid 2021, we need very fast additional resources.
  6- We have gathered a mini specialized library including researches, lectures, dissertations and books in the field of ecological planning and design in our own space in Büyükada.
  7- Fifty years of our work will be monitored; we have established a workshop and design archive where new ones can be made.
  8- We have formalized the fact that the core of the Academy is an activity within a Joint Stock Company with the decision of the extraordinary General Assembly.
  9- Adakademi has a project office in Ankara.
  10- We held the Academy brainstorming meeting in the club meeting hall on the Anatolian Club Library and on the terrace of the Academy.
  11- Özgür İnsan magazine will be given under the supervision of the academy as an indexed journal which will be published every two months starting from 2020. We expect the Association to present the old issues and new social supplements to the electronic environment. We sincerely and insistently invite our dear friends to review our call and its annexes and to participate in and work in the fields they want. If we can walk with your participation, it will shorten our long path.
• Persons who have exceeded the age of high school or who have not completed their education will be ensured to become certified experts both in Turkey and abroad with co-programs and timing parallel to our studies.
  Corresponding Author 1 ADAKADEMI Foundation, Turkey (semih.eryildiz@org.tr)
  Corresponding Author 2 Okan University (demet.eryildiz@okan.edu.tr)

BIG UTOPIA OF TURKEY
BATIKENT AS AN EXPERIMENTAL TOOL TO EVALUATE EVOTECHTUR

In the ‘Evotecture’ article, Batıkent’s ‘West City of Ankara Project’ will be a tool to evaluate a new model for evoplanning for resilience against poverty & hazards. Batıkent is Turkey’s biggest social housing initiative. The writers of this paper were in the starting team & followed the implications for more than forty years. It was an attempt to eradicate poverty, aiming to evaluate the resilience of society in the 1970s. The social, economic, and environmental effects of low-cost housing in Batıkent are discussed.

GRASS’ ROOTS FOR BATIKENT NEW SETTLEMENTS; WORLD & TURKEY
In the second half of the 20th century, like other developing parts of the World, Turkey had severe problems. Under the press of rapid urbanization, rural areas are exploited- exhausted, becoming urban waste areas. Rapid urbanization, poisonous waste production center, and political, economic, and cultural difficulties required immediate solutions. ‘Batıkent Settlement Project’ was an attempt to slum clearance by offering alternative ‘site & service programs, social & co-housing. With socio-political instruments, evaluated resilient society using eco-friendly methodologies by ecodesign. In order to create a new way of planning for eco resilience, a methodology and guide will be evaluated for Evotecture. ‘Batıkent’ will be used as a tool to evaluate a higher level of development. A new model of evoplanning against poverty and hazards is necessary. Social, economic, and environmental effects in low-cost housing in Batıkent and other cases are discussed.

From 8000 years old Anatolian sun civilization to today’s Academic perfection rooted Ernst Reuter saying “Modern city is a village compared to the old idea of a city.’ was affecting housing and city in Turkey. Akaretler in 1875, Bahçelievler in 1935, Saraçoğlu in 1940, Yenimahalle in 1948, Ataköy 1960, Halkalı in 1987, and Bahçeşehir in 1995 should be mentioned. 22 replicas similar to Batıkent realized aftermath can be followed.

T. More’s utopia island has 54 big and beautiful cities built on carefully planned streets and squares in order to make arrivals easier and protect from the wind with large gardens between houses. This sun city is a raising peak in the middle of the huge plain. ‘New Settlement Projects’ were very popular while the population increased in Europe and America in the 19th century. Robert Owen & ‘New World Thinking’. C. Fourriers’ new solutions for social problems of the Industrial Revolution. With small streets, big factories, and one-third being huge green areas. Cabet in the ‘Ikaria Trip’ published in 1840 based utopic communist city which is similar to Paris in many ways. Fourier said “Beautiful is not more expensive than bad” & create Engels gave great emphasis on building and environmental problems. Ebenezer Howard ‘Gardencity’ affected the first half of 20. century. Wakefield’s book “View of the Art Colonisation” show the way “Gardencity”. F. L Wrights’s unbelievable work Broadacre City is the most influential masterpiece. The are of the newest discussions about Urban design is New Urbanism; daily life is out of the cities now. City centers lost their importance. Radical discrimination becomes stronger. The designers who support New Urbanism believe that a group of people can cure by designing true places.

Batıkent Project started in the year 1974, Ankara Municipality V. Dalokay was Mayor & Architect Semih Eryıldız responsible Director for ‘Directory of Slum Clearance New Settlement’. Batıkent has about 1 million populatıon and is the only and biggest urban settlement of huge geography for hundreds of year. Batikent project started as ‘Akkondu’ in 1973. The project started to be realized with the establishment of Kent-Koop in 1979.

The underlying intimacy was derived from the unhealthy and unsustainable living conditions of the existing situations of the city. (34) Batıkent is a social & cooperative strategic- holistic- endless planning process. Partners are cooperatives, the central government, Ankara municipality, and Kent(City)-Koop. Batıkent Project is a result of a collective house and collective house management becoming a tool.
Existing resource usage, social sensitivity, energy usage, and heat isolation practices usages were pioneers in many fields 20 years after these applications these practices become obligatory all of Turkey. Batıkent centers joint necessary like proficient and association directly own become organized to owners of the communes at the planning phase. Professional, community, and cultural areas developed, solidarity and to help each other become supply. But in different political turmoil’s those communal functions & huge areas handed to private bodies
Batıkent Kent Koop- City-Coop as a mediator aimed to solve problems bettered cooperation in modern city life & alienation. But good neighborhood relationship rooted in traditional life and it is impossible regeneration in one generation. That’s why ın Batıkent many socıal and cultural activity hadn’t been realized. Project universally attracted attention; had seen universal platform accepted ın 1987 world house year England social proficient arrangement prizes first prize given by prince Charles to Batıkent Project. Batıkent’s genuine minimal source usage, productivity and healthy life connect its surrounds & it is suitable for business model thought planned.
Physical prosperities analysed; slope, geology, forest, plant, flora-fauna water resource, archaeological evaluation & demographical analyses mandated, slays for hand and it showed typologies planned accordingly. According to synthesis maps; first built environment zone, second urban agriculture, thirdly city forests, can be green areas zone, convert rural areas to permaculture will continue area suitable tourism, trade activity will areas and recreational zone as built, type according to their ecologically produced maps. These maps as suitable database back up geographic knowledge system. In map anything area when you click its area knowledge Picture be comes. In see

E_R diagram using build, age, flat. Knowledge inside builds their age, sexism, education, like many detailed knowledge inventory can be reach and possible.
Batıkent Project completed 55.000 houses 300.000 population. This account in 2007 year passed 500.000 & 2014 reaches a million being the cities prestigious centre. 22 Project similar to Batıkent in Turkey and other foreign countries another one civil and democratic participation mainly approach ın hand. Under the leadership of Municipalities forwarded; Trade Union, trades, artisans, craftsman organizations foundations participated City-Coop mainly three important to become reality these:
City – Coops foundation Batıkent pass the life; and Distance from Ankara 13 km, Ankara –İstanbul main roads north placed. Nearly 10.000.000 m2 closed area realized. The city Batıkent composes out of neighbourhood unit 5.000 person communes united the smallest settlement areas. With four neighbours unit connects to arise city town base..
Ankara metropolitan zone for Master plan Office with this offices work planned at the end of 960’s as the first metropolitan development diagram. Ankara 1990 Master plan to take residence built to change reality; urban functional activity, work and healthy city healthy life to bring for firstly enterprise to phase start.
Eryaman and Sincan zone as a area important part development started simultaneously with Batıkent, planned proposed by Eryıldız, but realized 25 years later. 1990 Ankara Masters plan aim of, how much target can reach, Master plan development suggestion with made Ankara macro form compare and northwest corridor doesn’t realise waiting success development.
Batıkent between 1981-1990 year 50.000 houses has been built. Ecologic imagination principles to applied many zone. Most of the houses age is more than 30 years. Renewal of these building stock, evaluating with ecologic principles in good connection is a necessity nowadays. To be taken this precautions will create its cost after shortly time, will turn us as cost. At the end of 960’s Ankara metropolitan zone for Mater plan Office with this offices work planned, first metropolitan development diagram produced. These diagram firstly according to their criterion as evaluate and eliminated.

• Saving environment
• Social targets
• House zone targets
• Arrival targets
• Urbanization targets
  These targets grouped according to their weight. As a result “diagram corridor” Ankara macro form accepted diagram of designation. Aim of plan the city’s macro form and especially description oh with İstanbul way, on the Eskisehir way development to guide.
  Northwest and west corridor total nearly 1.000.000 population, only 1990-year % 17 percentage an seeing reality in Batıkent, south of Eryaman and Sincan zone as a area important part development and near future target population can be reach. Batıkent many urban problems to take solution, to take healthy approach and community foundation house problem finding solution important start point can be potential to supposed a good Project. Inside area has been a pedestrian & cycling circulation system. • Lower & medium revenue groups people settled
  • Project organization and to solution own problem to participate democratic way.
  • Economic dimension in city cooperative in hand.
  • Project base public foundation,
  • Especially between local administration and
  • Civil organization as due corporation
  • Investment activation & quick usage
  • Member of cooperative civil community must elect Authorized decision and execution organs
  Planned life style start from house, street neighbour relationship, part measurement relationship, part distance relationship, centre/down centre relationship, like work strong relationship many thought become starting point. For healthy city part useful social substructure place complete from start and will diminish and will solution arrive problem from start. In Batıkent will present centres and down centre ownership will handed Ankara municipality, the other joint usage areas cooperative ownership.
  Batıkent’s three main aim to read following this precaution:
  1-Built land/ house/ shelter problem real ownership organization added their effectiveness as politician.
  2- Cooperatives as today amateur management and with business to drop by unsuccessful result lost confident with professional understands renew save.
  3- Healthy city part with participate public creates and thus plan decision as to produce at to public remaining its rest.

We have CUMULATED more than half a century experience; theory & practice; indexed articles, books, analyses and structural experiments & buildings 
IN YOUTUBE WE HAVE MORE THAN 200 VİDEOS 
PRODUCED ON ECOARCHİTECTURE BY US, OUR COLLEQUES & STUDENTS…
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Prof. Dr. Halil Semih Eryıldız, BRIEF CV
Prof. Eryıldız is a METU graduate, M.Sc. thesis is on the design and implementation of the “First Turkish pneumatic building” at METU Campus as a greenhouse, and his Ph. D. is on “Environmental Urbanization Policies” advisor was Prof. Dr. Ruşen Keleş. He has given design, environmental control, urban design, and landscape courses; at METU, YTU, Anadolu, Bahçesehir, Gazi, and European University of Lefke, MU & DOU, OKAN & GTU;
Designed housing, apartments, shopping, offices, banks, educational buildings, and eco renovation  projects, constructed 40.000 M2 buildings, infrastructure, 11 national 3 international 2 restricted competitions, winning 3 awards; editor of periodicals “Mimarlık”, “Özgür İnsan”, “Arrendemento”. “Yeni Halkçı…”
He was a  director in Ankara Municipality, working with mayor Dalokay to start projects like Batıkent, and as Advisor to Minister of Culture and  to Yenimahalle Municipality), writer of 12 Books (Ekokent, Batıkent, and Ekopeyzaj is on Market), 65 articles out of 17 international,   he is a former Turkish Parliament member
Ecological planning and design after a disaster.
• Mass house, School buildings, and Business buildings
• Solutions to the problems of Urbanism and the Environment
• Urban settlement projects in cooperation with local governments.
Examples
• Chief of Planning and project services of İskenderun Steel Factory
Settlement( Responsible for project and archives)
• Enterprise and planning services of Batıkent Project of Ankara Municipality
• UNDP PROJECT

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