Reconsidering the modern ruin as a trigger of creative process in heritage conservation: Varosha as an urban lab

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2026-2

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KAVAK, TUĞBA

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Decay, obsolescence, and ruination are inevitable in the physical environment. Loss of material integrity is often associated with loss of values. Therefore, ruin often lies in the negative realms of conservation. Within the expanded context of the field, ruin emerges as a critical heritage object reflecting temporal depth and material decay. Despite the concept of ruin has been discussed with certain aspects, the modern ruin still hasn't found its place in the context of conservation. However, variety of design interventions, whether driven by conservation concerns or not, demonstrate that the modern ruin has triggered the emergence of diverse solutions. Offering an overview of the paradigm shift in the field and drawing on the emerging alternative approaches, this study explores creative intervention processes to the modern ruin. Through a matrix, this study identifies the ruin characteristics, conservation parameters, and intervention priorities that influence this process. As a result, this study reveals the resulting reactions and proposes a new conceptual identification of interventions to the modern ruin. This study grounds and exemplifies its theoretical and methodological discussion by forming an atlas with variety of cases of design interventions. In this respect, this study explores the case of Varosha, exhibiting an interesting case of a modern ruin landscape, as an urban lab through the created matrix. Ultimately, this study repositions the modern ruin as a heritage object and conservation as a creative design practice within a broader framework, by reconceptualizing the modern ruin as a trigger of creative processes in heritage conservation.

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Modern ruin, Creative process in conservation, Varosha, Urban lab

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/119027

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Graduate School of Natural and Applied Sciences, Thesis