Hi! I'm Meltem.

About. I hold a Master of Science (M.Sc.) degree from Carnegie Mellon University, where I studied as a Fulbright Scholar. Before joining CMU, I completed one year in TU Munich's Information Technologies for the Built Environment program. My current research focuses on multimodal understanding of existing building stock under partially observable and sparse data conditions.

Say hi. msahinoz[at]andrew[dot]cmu[dot]edu

Contact. Email  /  Linkedin  /  Github

Links. ig  /  @oncekahvem  /  @iaminarchitecture  /  Youtube

profile photo

Fun

Small experiments and ongoing personal work. An attempt to learn in public.

@oncekahvem

Food & coffee diaries

@odtudeyemek

An undergrad's campus food guide

Travel log

A map of places I've visited and I want-to-visit

Food & Coffee map

A gastronaut's map of places worth a detour

Projects [wip]

BLUE-PRINT-GREEN-DESIGN coverBLUE-PRINT-GREEN-DESIGN animated preview
Dev & UI/UXB&E
BLUE-PRINT-GREEN-DESIGN
Essential MVC Programming, CMU
video / github

BLUEPRINT GREEN DESIGN is an interactive, free, and lightweight app for anyone who wants to create and visualize simple building plans in 2D, calculate and visualize their heat loss, and get energy analysis for each component to make informed efficiency decisions.

2024
Residential Energy Retrofit cover
B&E
Residential Energy Retrofit
Environmental Systems & Climate - CMU

A residential retrofit study for a single-family home in Puchheim, Bavaria. Combines envelope-driven heat-loss modeling, passive conditioning strategies, and RemRATE simulation to chart a staged path toward net-zero annual energy.

2024 Fall
ASHRAE Great Energy Predictor III cover
MLB&E
ASHRAE Great Energy Predictor III
Applied Machine Learning, CMU
github / kaggle

Hourly building energy-use forecasting on the ASHRAE Great Energy Predictor III dataset. Engineered temporal, and weather features and trained gradient-boosted models evaluated by RMSLE.

2025 Spring
#IAMINARCHITECTURE cover
Dev & UI/UXA&D
#IAMINARCHITECTURE
Architectural Design Thinking, TUM Venture Lab
instagram

A platform concept addressing the communication and retention gap in the AEC industry, combining forums, job boards, firm reviews, and learning resources so practitioners and students can share knowledge across studios.

2024
From Pixels to People: Multimodal Building-Stock Characterization for Data-driven
        Retrofit Targeting cover
CVMLB&E
From Pixels to People: Multimodal Building-Stock Characterization for Data-driven Retrofit Targeting
M.Sc. Thesis, Building Performance & Diagnostics, CMU

An explainable multimodal screening framework that infers building attributes from drone roof imagery, street-view facades, and electricity time series, generating retrofit action rankings for the a data-scarce neighborhood in Pittsburgh.

2026 Spring
3S MERIDIAN cover
Dev & UI/UXB&E
3S MERIDIAN
CMU Civil Engineering × Gresham Smith Hackathon

A transparent, multi-factor site-selection tool that scores all 3,234 US counties for data-center feasibility across 11 infrastructure, sustainability, and economic criteria. A web interface lets users set hard feasibility thresholds and soft sustainability weights, then explore the results on an interactive choropleth map overlaid with power plants and natural-gas pipelines.

2026 Spring
Shaping Dayslight cover
B&EA&D
Shaping Dayslight
Shaping Daylight, CMU

Parametric daylight spaces to create two contrastive spatial experiences: one in an elegant restaurant and one in a banal warehouse, usingRhino Grasshopper and Climate Studio.

2025 Fall
Deep Learning Facade Classification cover
CVML
Deep Learning Facade Classification
Applied Deep Learning, CMU
github

Transfer-learning classification of building exterior cladding materials from street-view façade imagery. Pre-trained ResNet50 and InceptionV3 backbones with frozen weights and a Dense / Dropout / Softmax head, trained on Wang et al. (2024)'s London subset and tested for geographic generalization on the Scotland subset.

2025 Spring
Environmental Performance Simulation cover
B&EA&D
Environmental Performance Simulation
Environmental Performance Simulation, CMU
github

Climate-aware energy and daylight simulation workflows for a civic space in Boston (ASHRAE 5A). Builds a reusable Grasshopper + Climate Studio template that ties wind-rose, humidity, and dry-bulb temperature analyses to sDA / UDI metrics.

2025 Fall
LiDAR Point Cloud → LOD2 Roof Models cover
CVB&E
LiDAR Point Cloud → LOD2 Roof Models
Research, CMU Center for Building Performance

3D urban building energy modeling from LiDAR point clouds in ArcGIS. Solar roof analysis via the Google Solar API, NREL PVWatts, and ArcGIS raster radiation tools to support retrofit and community-solar planning in Pittsburgh.

2025 Spring
Larimer Energy Retrofit Dashboard cover
B&E
Larimer Energy Retrofit Dashboard
Research, CMU Center for Building Performance

Interactive Power BI dashboard for the Larimer neighborhood. Geo-referenced timeseries electricity consumption and parcel property assessment data layers represented to inform the initial building stock screening.

2025 Spring
Snow Melt Detection cover
CVB&E
Snow Melt Detection
Research, CMU Center for Building Performance & Diagnostics

Exploring the snow retention and building physics relations with off-the-shelf segmentation models and correlation analysis.

2025 Spring
MIT Hackathon cover
Dev & UI/UXB&E
MIT Hackathon
Hackathon, MIT

A weekend-scale climate / energy hackathon entry at MIT. Won the third place!

2025
Climate Studio Analysis cover
B&E
Climate Studio Analysis
Summer Internship

LEED v4 daylight and view analysis of a hospital using Climate Studio.

2025 Summer
Parametric Design with Colibri cover
A&DB&E
Parametric Design with Colibri
Summer Internship

Parametric envelope and structural exploration using Grasshopper and Colibri.

2025 Summer
IESVE-AIA2030 Automation cover
B&E
IESVE-AIA2030 Automation
Summer Internship

Automating AIA 2030 export workflows mechanical engineers to accelerate the AIA2030 commitment. Exploring IESVE-Python API and to speed up comparative energy modeling in early design and batch submitting after design.

2025 Summer
Smart Greenhouse Management Using IoT cover
Dev & UI/UXB&E
Smart Greenhouse Management Using IoT
TUM Venture Labs

A low-cost greenhouse climate-control system based on LoRaWAN sensor networks and mobile-app alerts. Exploring autonomous response strategies to drifting temperature and humidity regimes using off-the-shelf distance, soil-moisture, and air-temperature sensors.

2024
BI-T-OWER cover
A&DB&E
BI-T-OWER
B.Arch. Graduation Project, METU
website

A speculative data-center–civic-space hybrid with an underground public amphitheater. Parametric daylight design in Grasshopper and Climate Studio paired with VR walkthroughs and glare overlays.

2023 Spring
whynot? cover
A&D
whynot?
Architectural Design, METU

A student co-housing studio project exploring shared residential living.

2023
enCOunters cover
A&D
enCOunters
Architectural Design II, METU

A music school along Istanbul's Dolmabahçe waterfront. Integrates historical fragments and preserves green corridors with concert halls, dance halls, and rehearsal spaces opening onto a public conservatory campus.

2022 Spring
Building Detail Modeling — Jam House cover
A&D
Building Detail Modeling — Jam House
Architectural Design, METU

Detailed construction documentation for a weekend house. REVIT 3D modeling, foundation/wall/floor connections, mezzanine acoustic design, and timber stud framing.

2022
RESET Smart-Home Automation — Interdisciplinary Problem Solving & Design Studio cover
A&DB&E
RESET Smart-Home Automation — Interdisciplinary Problem Solving & Design Studio
METU Design Factory × Arçelik Global

A home-empathizer concept that learns occupant patterns to optimize energy and comfort while prioritizing privacy. Built by a six-person interdisciplinary team (architecture, mechanical, electrical, business, industrial design).

2022 Spring