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Yapılı Çevreden Öğrenmek: Yeniden İşlevlendirmenin Deneysel Bir Arşivi Olarak Ankara

Year 2026, Volume: 10 Issue: 1, 96 - 111, 15.02.2026
https://doi.org/10.54864/planarch.1816453
https://izlik.org/JA62PB48NB

Abstract

Mimarlık ve şehircilikte, mevcut yapı stoğu ve doğal peyzaj dahil olmak üzere tüm kaynak ve malzemeleri kapsayan, döngüsellik ve uyarlanabilirlik eksenli bir tasarım kültürüne yönelim artmaktadır. Yıkım eylemi sorgulanmakta, mevcut yapılarda ve kentsel mekanlarda, onarım, bakım ve yeniden işlevlendirmeyi önceleyen müdahale ve dönüşümler daha fazla tercih edilmektedir. Bu makale, yeniden işlevlendirmeye ilişkin el kitapları ve atlaslarda baskın olan örnek temelli ve pratik odaklı yaklaşımlardan farklılaşarak, yapılı çevrenin birikmiş bilgisinden ve deneysel çeşitliliğinden öğrenmenin önemini vurgulamaktadır. Yeniden işlevlendirilmiş yapıları tekil olarak değil, kolektif olarak bağlamlarıyla bütünleşik olarak incelemenin, mevcut yapılı çevreye eleştirel bir bakış açısı getirdiğini ve özen temelli bir yaklaşımı teşvik ettiğini savunmaktadır. Makale, Ankara’ya odaklanan ve kenti yeniden işlevlendirmenin deneysel bir arşivi olarak inceleyen lisansüstü düzeyde bir ders kapsamında yürütülen araştırma projesine dayanmaktadır. Araştırma kapsamında öğrenciler, kentteki yeniden işlevlendirilmiş yapıların iz sürme, haritalama ve dizinleme yoluyla bir arşivini oluştururken aynı zamanda dönüştürülmüş yapılı çevreleri yorumlamanın yaratıcı ve eleştirel yollarını aramışlardır. Öğrencilerin ikamet ettiği şehirde yer alan bu araştırma, mevcut yapıları geçirdikleri dönüşümler sonrası deneyimleme fırsatı sunarak, yeniden işlevlendirmenin yalnızca bir tasarım müdahalesi olarak değil, bir süreç olarak anlaşılmasını hedeflemektedir. Bu araştırma, mimarlık eğitimini, mimarlık pratiğinin giderek daha fazla dönüşüm ve yeniden işlevlendirmeye odaklanan süreçleriyle bütünleştirmek için yerleşik ve araştırma temelli bir öğrenme modeli önermekte; kenti bir arşiv olarak incelemenin kavramsal ve stratejik araçlarını tartışmaktadır.

Ethical Statement

Bu araştırma, yapılı çevreyi saha çalışması, literatür taraması ve kamuya açık arşiv ve veri tabanı kaynakları aracılığıyla incelediği için etik incelemeden muaftır.

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Learning from the Built Environment: Ankara as an Experimental Archive of Adaptive Reuse

Year 2026, Volume: 10 Issue: 1, 96 - 111, 15.02.2026
https://doi.org/10.54864/planarch.1816453
https://izlik.org/JA62PB48NB

Abstract

There is a growing awareness in architecture and urbanism regarding the adoption of a culture of circularity and adaptability, which emphasizes the reuse of existing resources and materials. Demolition is being reevaluated, with a greater demand for transforming existing buildings and urban spaces, prioritizing repair and reuse over new construction. This paper emphasizes the significance of learning from the accumulated knowledge and experimental diversity within the built environment, responding to the evolving nature of architectural practice that increasingly focuses on adaptive reuse. Diverging from the predominant case-based and practice-oriented approach in handbooks and atlases on adaptive reuse, this study argues that examining reused buildings collectively rather than individually encourages critical attention to what already exists in the urban fabric and fosters a care-based approach to built heritage. This paper draws on a research project from a graduate-level course focused on the city of Ankara, studying it as an experimental archive of adaptive reuse, where students are engaged in tracing, mapping, and indexing to create an archive of reused buildings in the city, as they are encouraged to develop creative and critical ways of interpreting transformed built environments. Situated in the very city where the students reside, this research study provides opportunities to experience existing buildings in their post-reuse periods, expanding the understanding of adaptive reuse as not merely a design intervention, but as an ongoing process. The paper proposes a situated and research-based learning model to integrate architectural education with architectural practices increasingly focused on transformation and adaptive reuse; it discusses conceptual and strategic tools for examining the city as an archive.

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  • Buluç, S. (1994). İlkçağda Ankara. Yapı Kredi Yayınları.
  • Casey, E. S. (2004). Public Memory in Place and Time. K. R. Phillips (Ed.), Framing Public Memory (s. 17-44). University of Alabama Press.
  • Demiröz. M. (2015). Causes and Effects of Urban Transformation Processes on the Cultural Heritage in Hacı Bayram Area, Ulus (Tez No: 416475). [Yüksek Lisans Tezi, Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi]. YÖK Tez Merkezi.
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  • Huffman, K. L., Giordano, A., & Bruzelius, C. (2018). Visualizing Venice: Mapping and Modeling Time and Change in a City. Routledge.
  • Kayın, E. (2008). Türkiye’nin Koruma Tarihindeki Kırılmalar. Mimarlık, 343, 98-105.
  • Kollektiv Orangotango+. (2018). This is not an Atlas: A Global Collection of Counter Cartographies. Transcript Verlag.
  • Krauss, R. (1977). Notes on the Index: Seventies Art in America. October, 3, 68–81. https://doi.org/10.2307/778437
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  • Ritchie, D. A. (2015). Doing Oral History. Oxford University Press.
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  • Sennett, R. (2023). Building and Dwelling: Ethics for the City. Penguin.
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  • Sudan. A. E. (2012). The Role and Approach of Local Authorities in the Field of Conservation: Case Study in Hamamönü (Tez No: 387850). [Yüksek Lisans Tezi, Orta Doğu Teknik Üniversitesi]. YÖK Tez Merkezi.
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  • Woodward, S. (2019). Material Methods: Researching and Thinking with Things. SAGE Publications.
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Primary Language Turkish
Subjects Architecture (Other)
Journal Section Research Article
Authors

Seray Türkay Coşkun 0000-0003-1696-7921

Submission Date November 3, 2025
Acceptance Date December 29, 2025
Publication Date February 15, 2026
DOI https://doi.org/10.54864/planarch.1816453
IZ https://izlik.org/JA62PB48NB
Published in Issue Year 2026 Volume: 10 Issue: 1

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APA Türkay Coşkun, S. (2026). Yapılı Çevreden Öğrenmek: Yeniden İşlevlendirmenin Deneysel Bir Arşivi Olarak Ankara. PLANARCH - Design and Planning Research, 10(1), 96-111. https://doi.org/10.54864/planarch.1816453

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