NURİ CİHAN KAYAÇETİN
Bilkent University
Department of Interior Architecture and Environmental Design

Nuri Cihan Kayacetin is an architect with an academic specialization on life cycle sustainability. Having worked worked as a professional architect for more than ten years, he progressed in the field of academia with his masters and PhD studies at METU. His dissertation titled ‘A Life Cycle Assessment Based Decision Support Tool for Early Design Phase of Mass-Housing Neighbourhoods in Turkey’ focused on the environmental impact of TOKİ housing developments on different scales; component, building and urban. Meanwhile, he contributed to international energy efficiency projects as national expert and coordinator with the Ministry of Environment and Urbanization. He also has experience in architectural practice on office and health-care facilities design in Turkiye and abroad. With a group of architects, he participated in architectural competitions and received multiple national awards. In 2020, he joined KU Leuven in Gent for his post-doctoral studies on socio-ecological construction. The study was based on a living lab approach where several circular and bio-based materials & methods were tested in a real-life setting. In the end of the study, a demountable housing prototype that is composed of hybrid bio-based wall panels was achieved. He is currently an assistant professor in Bilkent University and his current research areas are integrated sustainable design, energy efficiency, circular and bio-based construction and socio-ecological life cycle assessment of the built environment.   ⇐ back