At TU Delft, the the research interests of the group are integrated in the research programme Performance & Computation (led by Prof. Dr. Joop Paul and Assoc. Prof. Dr. Rudi Stouffs).  Specific research challenges are:

• Performance Assessment: To define building performance and quality, and to develop the computational means to assess in design the many various aspects that constitute them, taking into account cultural as well as technical (i.e. psychological as well as physical) requirements, and also the points of view of different ‘stakeholders’ in the design, construction and operation of the building.
• Performance Integration: To apply the understanding of performance and quality to the computational design process so as to plan, construct and operate buildings whose reality meets or exceeds the aspirations that motivated their production.
• Design Support: To develop design, communication and decision-making practices, and their computational support, which enable stakeholders to effectively apply the understanding of building performance and quality in an informed and balanced way so as to achieve mutually acceptable outcomes.
• Integral Design: To continually re-examine the relations between performance/quality, function, materials, systems, society, and architectural form within an investigation of computationally enhanced holistic design strategies, so as to remain alert to and explore opportunities for (positive) change in the man-made environment, including those beyond the limits of physically building.

At METU, the general research interest of the group is . Specific research topics are:

• Computer aided design (Assist. Prof. Dr. Arzu Gönenç Sorguç, Assist. Prof. Dr. Mine Özkar )

          o    Artificial intelligence
          o    Constraint satisfaction

• CAD/CAM applications for architectural design (Assist. Prof. Dr. Arzu Gönenç Sorguç and Assist. Prof. Dr. Mine Özkar)

• Construction informatics (Assist. Prof. Dr. Ali Murat Tanyer)

          o    Building information models
          o    Virtual reality and applications
          o    Process, product and data modeling

• Design optimization AND Performance Based Design (Assist. Prof. Dr. Arzu Gönenç Sorguç)

• Design technologies education (Assist. Prof. Dr. Mine Özkar and Assist. Prof. Dr. Arzu Gönenç Sorguç)

• Design thinking (Assist. Prof. Dr. Mine Özkar)

          o    Design cognition
          o    Design theory and methods
          o    Spatial representation and reasoning

• History and epistemology of computational design (Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zeynep Mennan)
• History and epistemology of design research (Assist. Prof. Dr. Mine Özkar)
• Mathematics as a design tool (Assist. Prof. Dr. Arzu Gönenç Sorguç)
• Morphogenesis (Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zeynep Mennan)
• Non-standardization (Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zeynep Mennan)
• Organicism and Bio-mimicry (Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zeynep Mennan, Assist. Prof. Dr. Arzu Gönenç Sorguç)
• Design Models for simulation (Assist. Prof. Dr. Arzu Gönenç Sorguç)
• Software architecture for architects (Assist. Prof. Dr. Arzu Gönenç Sorguç)
• Theories of complexity and formal hermeneutics (Assoc. Prof. Dr. Zeynep Mennan)
• Visual computation and the theory of Shape Grammars (Assist. Prof. Dr. Mine Özkar)