Post-Occupancy Evaluation of Facade Design and Performance in Terms of User Satisfaction for Architecture Office Building, EMU

The building construction industry is developing significantly and the development is decreasing the design and construction time. The necessity of achieving user satisfaction and feedbacks became more important compared to history. One of the most important parts of the building is a facade. The design and performance of the facade have an important effect to achieve user satisfaction at an indoor environment. Facade can play a big role in balancing different aspects of indoor environment quality such as view to outdoor, privacy level, air quality, thermal comfort, and natural lighting. Facades that designed according to contextual features can promise for achieving high satisfaction and comfort for building occupants. Consequently, it is important to take into account in designing facade and developing according to occupant’s needs. In order to understand the user satisfaction and collect feedbacks, post-occupancy evaluation (POE) method is developed. It is an essential method to evaluate the design success of the building and the performance after an occupancy. The different type of POE is applied to several buildings to examine various parts of the building in terms of user satisfaction but there are few numbers of POE that applied to examine facade design and performance for user satisfaction. This study focused on evaluation of facade design and performance of the selected office building by POE. The indicative POE method applied with questionnaire and observations of users and author. The study evaluated the facade of Architecture Office Building in EMU Campus, Famagusta, North Cyprus. The results were discussed and possible solutions for the case and recommendations for future projects are provided. Keywords: Office Building, Facade Design, Facade Performance, User Satisfaction, Post Occupancy Evaluation.