İDEALKENT

Yazarlar: Deniz AVCI HOSANLI

Konular:Sosyal

Anahtar Kelimeler:Historic city centers,Early Republican Period,Hisarönü Neighborhood,Housing,Narrative of historic buildings,Conservation of cultural heritage

Özet: It is heart breaking to imagine a built environment without the historic traces in the cities, i.e. the necessary clues to reimagine the historic environment. Unfortunately, with rapid growth of the cities, the historic environment loses its traces as the historic city centers are trapped among the newly built areas, forgotten and abandoned because the historic buildings no longer meet the requirements of their owners, thus the new users reutilize them with incom-patible functions. However, the historic buildings in their regional, structural and spatial contexts display the characteristics of the daily life and spirit of a neighborhood from a certain time and place. Consequently, this article studied the single-family houses and apartments built during the 1920s in the Hisarönü Neighborhood - which was entirely reconstructed as Ankara became the new capital city – with an analysis on the historic and current narrative of the neighborhood demonstrating the danger of the current unconscious usage. As the Hisarönü Neigborhood is the only remaining neighborhood from the 1920s’ Ankara in its integrity, this study focused on the silent story told by its residential architecture resisting to demolition and used these to consolidate the conservation arguments.

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