International Success in WoS Q1 and Scopus Q1 from Asst. Prof. Kadir Öz and Asst. Prof. Meliha Havva Öz!

The research article co-authored by Asst. Prof. Dr. Kadir Öz, faculty member of the Department of Interior Architecture at Istanbul Gelisim University (IGU) Faculty of Fine Arts (GSF), and Asst. Prof. Dr. Meliha Havva Öz, faculty member of the Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design, has been published in the "Journal of Asian Architecture and Building Engineering", one of the prestigious peer-reviewed journals in the field of architecture, indexed in international Web of Science (WoS) Q1 and Scopus Q1. 

Rule-governed plan language and shape grammar in traditional Datça houses…

The published study titled "Datça Vernacular Houses as A Rule-Governed Plan Language: A Shape Grammar and J-Graph Reading" addresses spatial patterns in traditional residential architecture within a rule-governed analytical framework. Although research in vernacular architecture has frequently documented traditional housing structures, the rules generating these spatial patterns are rarely systemized within a single analytical model. The study demonstrates how Datça houses can be read as a rule-governed "plan language" through 13 analytically selected cases from a documented Reşadiye housing corpus. 

In the research, the Shape Grammar method is utilized to extract spatial formation, articulation, and growth rules; while dual-root J-graph readings are employed to test the topological consistency of the extracted rules. The analysis reveals a distinct "core – growth – derivation" logic within the structures. This original study proves that a local vernacular architecture corpus can be elevated from descriptive documentation to a rule-governed plan language through rule extraction and topological verification. 

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