Examination of Winter Tourism Accommodation Building Form in Term of Compactity: the Example of Türkiye

Abstract

Energy is an effective factor that needs to be solved for efficiency in architecture, as in many other fields. For this reason, planned and strategic steps should be taken from the early stage of the building production process in terms of the effective use of energy. The form that the building will take varies according to the climatic characteristics. Therefore, the building should be designed with attention to environmental factors.. “Compactness”, which is a geometrical sub-concept of the building form, is one of the most important factors in terms of heat loss and gain of the building. The concept of compactness, which is related to all of the above contexts, constitutes the main motivation of this research. In the study, the extent to which the theoretical knowledge of compactness is applied in the practice of the formation of winter tourism accommodation structures and the differences in the formation of the buildings according to the regions that occur as a result of this was investigated. In this study, cold climate zone structures were preferred because they present a restrictive plane where compactness is more comparable in terms of form. In the study, 50 accommodation structures in different regions of Türkiye, which are the most preferred in terms of winter tourism, were evaluated with an original approach based on compactness. The data of the selected structures were transferred to a table, and compactness ratios were obtained by superposing the original and compact plan projections. As a result, it was seen that increasing the surface area in accommodation structures with relatively small floor areas greatly affects the compactness ratio, there is a linear ratio between the increase in the floor area and the number of floors, and there is no specialized building form and main facade direction for any region.