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In this study, academic staff residential buildings were studied as part of a university campus located in a hot and humid climate zone in Türkiye. Within the scope of the study, the energy efficient architectural and landscape design decisions of the buildings built in 1976 were examined. The aim was to determine the energy performance of buildings built about 50 years ago and to quantify the effect of changing landscape conditions on thermal comfort. In this aim, the outdoor thermal comfort level was determined by creating microclimate simulations for the hottest day and time of the year. Microclimatic analyses were performed with ENVI-met software and thermal comfort was evaluated with two metrics, average PMV and ASHRAE scale. The energy performance of the buildings was determined using ecological design parameters. An approach to global environmental problems is the use of ecological design principles, including architectural and landscape design principles. It is important to consider both architectural design criteria and landscape design criteria when discussing an ecological design in the built environment. Architectural and landscape design decisions for hot and humid climate regions together increased energy efficiency by 51.1% to 75.5%. It was found that although the plant design improves energy performance in buildings by that range value, it improved outdoor thermal comfort by 15% to 22%. As a result, the study evaluated climate-balanced plant design with building energy performance in order to improve outdoor thermal comfort. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]

Geography of Turkey with different altitudes up to 5,165 m asl has been effective for plant material selection in landscape design. Living quarters of many types, used in plant design vary depending on the different levels of altitude. Changing the ecological requirements such as soil and water of plant materials used in the design of urban green spaces partially or completely might be possible, but it is not possible to interfere with the distribution of plants depending on altitude. Abies taxa naturally grown in Turkey, which have an important potential in terms of landscape design, were taken as sample in this study. The geographic regions and altitude of potential lands for the fir taxa were determined by using Geographical Information Systems (GIS) in the present study. As a result, in most part of Turkey naturally grown Abies taxa can be used. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]