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A Hundred Years of Mardin as a Modern City in the case of Birinci Cadde (the First Avenue) and Halkevi (the People's House)
Throughout the Late Ottoman and the Early Republican periods in Turkey, traditional urban fabrics have been transformed as a result of many fragmentary interventions. By the 2000s, the relationship between urban design and traditional urban fabric attained a new level, where the new focus of intervention was the tourist industry in which the image of traditional town was polished in conformity with spatial consumption. The modernization process is exemplified by two interventions in Mardin city: the First Avenue (1915-2013) and the People's House (1938-2011). The method of the study is based on the information obtained through on-site observations made between 2008 and 2015. Related literature, drawings and visual documents were examined. As the study depicts the stories of the last 100 years', it is expected to be seen as a contribution to the literature of prevailing 'history of the private space and buildings'. In the conclusion of the study, the modernization efforts in Mardin have been evaluated through the examples of the First Avenue and People's House. Initially, the Avenue was expanded to allow steady flow of traffic that got increased due to automobiles appearing as a new means of transportation, and later in 2013 and 2014 it was transformed into a pedestrian area in parallel to the rehabilitation of the building facades. The People's House with its reinforced concrete structure and plastered facade was the first example of a cultural institution in 1938 representing the introduction of reinforced concrete structure. In 2011, plasters were removed and its facades were converted to a stone bond, and the building was transformed to a boutique hotel. Thus, the two spaces that were reflecting the modernist and nationalist ideals in the beginning of the 20th century, went through a transformation reflecting the 21th century's trends of tourism and consumption focused trends.
A Hundred Years of Mardin as a Modern City in the case of Birinci Cadde (the First Avenue) and Halkevi (the People's House)
Throughout the Late Ottoman and the Early Republican periods in Turkey, traditional urban fabrics have been transformed as a result of many fragmentary interventions. By the 2000s, the relationship between urban design and traditional urban fabric attained a new level, where the new focus of intervention was the tourist industry in which the image of traditional town was polished in conformity with spatial consumption. The modernization process is exemplified by two interventions in Mardin city: the First Avenue (1915-2013) and the People's House (1938-2011). The method of the study is based on the information obtained through on-site observations made between 2008 and 2015. Related literature, drawings and visual documents were examined. As the study depicts the stories of the last 100 years', it is expected to be seen as a contribution to the literature of prevailing 'history of the private space and buildings'. In the conclusion of the study, the modernization efforts in Mardin have been evaluated through the examples of the First Avenue and People's House. Initially, the Avenue was expanded to allow steady flow of traffic that got increased due to automobiles appearing as a new means of transportation, and later in 2013 and 2014 it was transformed into a pedestrian area in parallel to the rehabilitation of the building facades. The People's House with its reinforced concrete structure and plastered facade was the first example of a cultural institution in 1938 representing the introduction of reinforced concrete structure. In 2011, plasters were removed and its facades were converted to a stone bond, and the building was transformed to a boutique hotel. Thus, the two spaces that were reflecting the modernist and nationalist ideals in the beginning of the 20th century, went through a transformation reflecting the 21th century's trends of tourism and consumption focused trends.
A Hundred Years of Mardin as a Modern City in the case of Birinci Cadde (the First Avenue) and Halkevi (the People's House)
Halil İbrahim Düzenli (author) / Evrim Düzenli (author)
2019
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