AN EVALUATION OF THREE SOLAR ARCHITECTURE HOUSING PROJECTS USING THE ANALYTIC HIERARCHY PROCESS (AHP)

Abstract

ABSTRACTNegative effects stemming from global warming all over the world, depletion of fossil fuels, technological developments and transformation of building living spaces have not only increased the need for energy but enhanced the need for new energy resources. Within this environment, sustainable, clean and renewable energy resources, and the utilization of these resources, need to be expanded. It is necessary to take advantage of solar energy both worldwide and in Turkey throughout the four seasons to produce profitable architectural methods at the maximum rate. Accordingly, a study was made in which a group of students modified their housing projects from a previous semester to use solar architecture which ensures maximum benefit from solar energy with the aim of gaining experience of solar architectural methods. The transformation of three different housing projects into solar architecture to benefit from the solar architecture has been performed using the methods in architecture. Identifying which is the most efficient project providing the maximum benefit from the three different solar architecture projects will demonstrate the success of the solar energy methods used. Within this context, the Analytic Hierarchy Process (AHP) has been used to decide which is the most successful solar architecture project and solar energy system.