Aydin, E. E., Chen, Z., Ortner, F.P., Tay, J.Z., Li, K., Chua, R., (2026).

"Universal Thermal Climate Index (UTCI)-adjusted pedestrian accessibility: Urban design exploration for climate-resilience in tropical climates. "

Sustainable Cities and Society 143, 107335.

Ortner, F.P., Chen, Z., Aydin, E. E., Peng, S., (2025).

"Generative urban modelling for walkable neighbourhoods: design optimization for pedestrian-oriented street networks."

Journal of Urban Design

Aydin, E. E., Ortner, F. P., Govindarajan, P., Tay, J. Z. &  Chen, Z., (2025). 
"Urban Data Analytics for Urban Heat Island Mitigation: A Case Study of Urban Design Exploration for Singapore’s Tropical Climate."

Case Studies in the Environment, Journal Article

Aydin, E. E., Ortner, F. P., Peng, S., Yenardi, A., Chen, Z., & Tay, J. Z. (2024). 
"Climate-Responsive Urban Planning Through Generative Models: Sensitivity Analysis of Urban Planning and Design Parameters for Urban Heat Island in Singapore's Residential Settlements."Sustainable Cities and Society, 114, 105779.

Tay, J., Ortner, F. P., Wortmann, T., & Aydin, E. E. (2024). "Computational Optimisation of Urban Design Models: A Systematic Literature Review." Urban Science, 8(3).

Govindarajan, P., Ortner, F. P., & Aydin, E. E. "What Density for Net Zero Energy?" eCAADe 2024 Proceedings, Cyprus. Issue: 42

Aydin, Elif Esra, “Pyramid Urban Model: A Multi-Scalar Performance-Driven Urban Design Approach.” PhD dissertation. Singapore University of Technology and Design, 2022. Advisors: Bige Tuncer, and J. Alstan Jakubiec.

Morales-Beltran, M., Charleson, A., & Aydin, E. E. (2019). "Sawtooth method for teaching seismic design principles to architecture students." Journal of Architectural Engineering, 26(1), 04019031.

Aydin, E. E., Jakubiec, J. A., & Jusuf, S. K. (2019). "A comparison study of simulation-based prediction tools for air temperature and outdoor thermal comfort in a tropical climate." In Building Simulation Conference Proceedings, IBPSA (pp. 4118-4125).

Aydin, E. E., & Jakubiec, J. A. (2018, September). "Sensitivity analysis of sustainable urban design parameters: Thermal comfort, urban heat island, energy, daylight, and ventilation in Singapore." In Proceedings of the Building Simulation and Optimization 2018 Conference, Cambridge, UK (pp. 11-12).

Aydin, E.E. (2017). "A Framework for Improving Energy Efficiency in Municipality Buildings" MSc Thesis. Yasar University. Advisor: Ilker Kahraman

Aydin, E.E., Kaya, H.O., Kahraman, I. Effects of Optimizing the Shading Device Orientation to Energy Consumption in Office Buildings. In Proceedings of the CLIMA 2016—Proceedings of the 12th REHVA World Congress, Aalborg, Denmark, 22–25 May 2016.

Ozcan, H. G., Gunerhan, H., Ozcan, N. Y., Demirkiran, G., & Aydin, E. E. (2016). A comparative study on thermal load calculation methods for a residential building. In 12th REHVA world congress (CLIMA 2016), Aalborg, Denmark.

Aydın, E. E., Dursun, O., Chatzikonstantinou, I., & Ekici, B. (2015, December). Optimisation of energy consumption and daylighting using building performance surrogate model. In 49th International Conference of the Architectural Science Association (pp. 536-546).