Re-integration of fragmented industrial heritage building complex with the city and its citizens: proposals for Hereke Imperial Textile Factory

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2024-9-3

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Aktop, Elif

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Industrial heritage places are composed by the relation between people and production, often experiencing changes due to industrial evolution. Although some may be abandoned today, they are considered heritage as they represent the production activities of their times. Hereke Imperial Textile Factory is an industrial complex from the late Ottoman Period (19th century) and is considered cultural heritage today as it represents a way of production and thus the way of living of people from that period in a specific location. Today, the Hereke Imperial Textile Factory campus is in a fragmented state with weak connections between its remaining buildings, the city, and its citizens. This lack of integrity is observed across managerial, physical, socio-cultural, and economic contexts. The fragmentation that occurs in these contexts is interrelated and together constitutes a fragmented industrial heritage complex. The aim of this thesis is to develop proposals for the re-integration of the factory campus with the city and its citizens. The method of the thesis is doing literature review and archival research on industrial heritage, Hereke and Hereke Imperial Textile Factory, on-site observations, and socio-cultural analysis through a site survey. The study analyses changes in the factory campus and Hereke, their connection over time, and their current state in terms of managerial, physical, socio-cultural, and economic aspects. Based on the evaluations of the values and fragmentation in the site, a holistic conservation approach will be developed through composition of principles in the mentioned contexts (managerial, physical, socio-cultural, economic) in order to achieve re-integration of the industrial heritage asset to the city and its citizens.

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Industrial Heritage, Fragmentation, Re-integration, Fabrika-i Humayun, Hereke

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/111526

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis