Role Of Energy Eff？cient Architecture Of Settlement Desicion On Mass Housing

Housings are responsible for a large part of the energy consumed in our country and in the World. ？t is important to minimize energy usage and demand, and to increase energy efficiency in order to reduce the negative environmental impacts caused by residential buildings. In the design phase of energy efficient architecture, such parameters as settlement orientation, mass, building skins and space are considered, together with the evaluation of existing climatic conditions to gain the most efficent energy usage outcomes. The purpose of this study is to examine the energy efficiency in mass housing at the level of 'settlement' and to evaluate practices in these cases. For this purpose, the city of Trabzon, and it’s dense public housing area, typical of many Turkish cities, is considered as the work area. Six housing units, each with different orientations, were examined in the area of ？ukur？ay？r. ？ukur？ay？r is one of the new areas of the city and is a high density settlement, in a temperate climate zone. The study aims to show through analysis how the afore mentioned characteristics are applied to this mass housing settlement, such as: the choice of building location, distance between buildings, orientation and design of open spaces and wether renewable energy systems, solar and wind were incorporated into the overall design. As a result of the study, it has been observed that the appropriate distance and orientation to maximise the benefits of sun and wind have not been applied, and that open space designs were not created in the case study. As a result of the evaluations of the study, it has been determined that the designers of typical housing estates do not consider energy efficiency as important and therefore building orientation and locations result in a higher energy demand