INTEGRATING USER NEEDS AND EXPECTATIONS INTO THE CONSERVATION PROCESS OF TRADITIONAL DWELLINGS: CASE OF MILAS, TÜRKIYE

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2023-1-25

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Ersoy, Sera Naz

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Structures live as long as they are used. For continuity in use, satisfaction of the users must be ensured, and their needs and expectations must be met. Notably, this concern is of greater importance for traditional dwellings since they harbor very particular type of human-environment interaction. Nevertheless, since the laws and regulations define the course of architectural conservation, the process becomes expert-based and top-down where actual users of the buildings are not involved. Howbeit, systematic and scientific work about how to manage a user-integrated conservation process remains insufficient in this context, especially in Türkiye. Accordingly, this study aspires to adopt a user-integrated perspective in conservation process of traditional dwellings in Milas, a historic urban site where traditional dwellings are still in use but confronted with the risk of abandonment. It aims to focus on the issue from sociological point of view and to set forth a systematic and scientific approach that would pay regard to the needs, expectations, and experiences of the users together with the architectural and heritage values of the structures. Within the framework of this research objective, the study will be composed of three stages: pre-site literature survey, on-site research based on observations and interviews to examine the relationship between human and environment, and post-site analysis, evaluation, and preparation of proposals for user-integrated decision-making process in conservation.

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Conservation of cultural heritage, Vernacular architecture, Sustainable conservation, Collaborative conservation, Participatory conservation

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/104764

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis