Professor Gokay Deveci, Dip(Arch) RIBA RIAS
Contact Details
E mail: g.deveci@rgu.ac.uk
Tel: +44 (0) 1224 263714
Fax: +44 (0) 1224 263777
Responsibilities
Professor
Background
Gokay Deveci is also a chartered architect and is able to draw on a wide range of experience from private practice. His main contribution to research has been in the field of innovative housing design, especially relating to low cost solutions that uses appropriate technology and building materials. His projects have won a series of design awards and he is an expert member of European TASK 28: Sustainable Solar Housing, where he represents Scotland. He is also accredited in ‘Sustainable Design’, with specific innovation and research achievement by the Royal Incorporation of Architects in Scotland (RIAS).
Research based practice
Gokay’s research-based practice unit is based in the Scott Sutherland School, specialising in the design of affordable and sustainable housing. His main research objective is to ensure that 'affordability' is not achieved at the expense of architectural design or construction quality and that design solutions meets the requirements of best practice in environmental sustainability.
The research-based practice focuses and can provide a specialist consultancy service on:
• Innovative approaches to housing
• Sustainable and affordable housing design
• Zero heating and low energy housing
• Flexibility + Adaptability
• Sustainable solar design
• Whole life cycle cost, environmental monitoring and post occupancy
• Buildability, construction and technology
• Prefabricated timber and concrete construction
He has designed and built a number of projects ranging from individual homes, including the well published ‘Zero-Heating Home’ in Aberdeen, with no dedicated heating for a private client, to a scheme of 14 new homes for a housing association. The designs of these projects have focused on innovative approaches, with emphasize on issues relating to energy efficiency, affordability, whole life costs, performance evaluation and ecological sustainability. The aim in all these designs has been to break new ground and the practice has been covered in the local and national press, journals and has won a number of prestigious awards.
See Deveci Research Based Practice
Awards
INTERNATIONAL
New York Water Front Award, 1989 (Awarded first prize, £10k)
NATIONAL
RIBA (Royal Institute of British Architects) Awards 2005
Scottish Design Award 2005, Best Affordable Housing Project
The Saltire Society Housing Design Awards 2004
RIAS Best Building in Scotland Award, 2004 (Public vote winner and runner up)
Scottish Design Awards 2004, Northern Exposure
Scottish Design Awards 2004, Best Housing Project
RIBA - Homes for Learning Competition 2002 (Special Mention Award)
Aberdeenshire Design Awards 2000 – Housing
Aberdeenshire Design Awards 2000 – Sustainability
The Velux & Architectural Journal ‘Lifetime Housing’, 2000
2000 Homes Innovation Award by DETR
The 2000 Housing & Environmental Innovation Award by CIH
The Velux & Architectural Journal ‘Lifetime Housing’, 1999
The RICS (Royal Institution of Chartered Surveyors) Award 1999
Recent Projects
Recent project include:
A'Chrannag See also Architecture in Scotland 2004-2006: Defining Place
Publications:
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