Learning from Change: Adapting Traditional Houses Through User Interventions, Case Study: Antakya, Hatay

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2023-5-23

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Yürük, Tuğçe

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Change is generally considered as a threat for heritage places. However, change is the way for heritage places to adapt themselves to the contemporary life, thus continue to survive. Therefore, instead of trying to stop the change, ways to manage it should be found. The issue is also valid for the traditional houses which are shaped according to the way of living of the period they were constructed. With the changing lifestyle, interventions for adaptation becomes inevitable, otherwise they are abandoned. While users’ interventions usually harm some heritage values, they are still very important as they reflect users’ needs, expectations as well as the solutions developed based on a living experience. Although studies are done to understand the modern life adaptations in traditional houses, there has not been an attempt to integrate the intervention of users into the conservation process. Consequently, this thesis aims to analyse and understand the changes made by users in the traditional houses, to develop principles and proposals for integration of the users’ interventions as an input in conservation process. Antakya, Hatay is chosen as the case study site with its traditional houses those are still inhabited and thus could survived today by the users’ interventions. The research consists of literature research and the site study which includes architectural and social surveys.

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Change in Traditional Houses, User Interventions, Adaptation, Traditional Antakya Houses

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/104522

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis