Conceptual Suggestions for Re-functioned Industrial Heritage Buildings

Abstract

Cultural architectural heritage is an important urban focus that forms the core of the historical environment and houses the historical buildings of ancient settlements. The developments in technology that the Industrial Revolution brought about in the 18th century increased rapidly until the beginning of the 20th century as it took the whole world under its influence, the production with human power was transferred to machines, and the factories were started to be built. Industry is a production technique phenomenon. Due to its historical and social nature, industrial buildings, which are among the historical buildings, are an important architectural heritage that includes the historical, technological, social, architectural, and scientific values of the industrial culture of the period. With the expansion of cultural heritage, the concept of "industrial heritage" emerged. Modern conservation approach gains importance today in the protection and re-evaluation of industrial heritage. In conservation studies, it is important not only to conserve the building structure, but also to conserve it with the traces of the production technique that forms its identity. However, today, in our country, which entered the industrialization process long after the West, the necessary importance and attention, is not paid to the industrial structures. With the change in the social and economic conditions of the time, industrial structures with historical value, most of which lost their function, became unusable by abandoning or destroying. The aim of this study is to determine the social, architectural and usage characteristics of the industrial buildings established in different periods of history in the Anatolian city, to perform their typological determinations and structural analyzes and to examine their effects on the city view. Building conservation and evaluation is about raising awareness of new uses and methods, industrial heritage conservation and their re-functioning and covers the process of making new/contemporary interior design. In the context of re-evaluation, original design works that do not harm its historical identity and are designed to be recycled to restore urban memory and identity were discussed as a course topic "Industrial Heritage and Conservation" with Hasan Kalyoncu University Architecture-Interior Architecture Department’s students in the semesters of 2020-2022.