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Understanding Cultural Landscape Characteristics: the Case of Barbaros Settlement, Urla-Izmir
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2017) Sarıbekiroğlu, Şeyma; Kul, Fatma Nurşen; Kul, Fatma Nurşen; 02.01. Department of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage; 02. Faculty of Architecture; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
Rural settlements’ heritage characteristics are threatened to extinct for many decades due to economic and social transformations. While current heritage studies indicate the importance of understanding a place with its all aspects, the issue is limited to architectural characteristics of the rural in Turkey. However, natural and cultural aspects of rural settlements, hosted life practices, used places, structures, objects are all related, and to conserve their valued characteristics, their relations should be considered not to lose their contexts. This thesis aims to understand Barbaros rural settlement, which is located in Urla, İzmir, with a holistic approach. To provide the aimed holistic view, the place is handled as a cultural landscape, which would give the most inclusive result due to its wide content including natural and cultural components, and tangible and intangible aspects. Existing methods, to understand cultural landscape and their contents are searched. As a result, the cultural landscape of Barbaros is analyzed under four headings as; natural land, agricultural land, aquatic areas and the settlement area. Tangible and intangible characteristics of each category, changes in time and correlations in between different categories are detected. The characteristics are evaluated and the ones related with traditional rural life are valued. The results of the research showed that the cultural landscape of Barbaros was strongly related with production when the life was dependent on agricultural activities. Both the activities and relations of the land decreased in time. As result, heritage values are harmed. To reveal the lost values and secure the existing ones, the detected characters and relations should be considered in a possible conservation project.
Conservation Aimed Evaluation of Darkale Rural Settlement in Soma, Manisa
(Izmir Institute of Technology, 2015) Etlacakuş, Ayşen; Hamamcıoğlu Turan, Mine; Turan, Mine; 02.01. Department of Conservation and Restoration of Cultural Heritage; 02. Faculty of Architecture; 01. Izmir Institute of Technology
This study aims to evaluate the heritage values and conservation problems of Darkale in Soma, Manisa; a historical rural settlement in which local way of life has been sustained. The method followed in this study is understanding the housing units as primary components of the rural settlement; and then, understanding the authenticity of the rural settlement itself with the tools of the discipline of architectural restoration; and finally developing ways of understanding the integrity of the rural settlement and the natural site in its surrounding. Megaliths, the very narrow and dimly lighted valley, the sound of the brook, the fertile plains around the brook and steep eastern hill skirt viewing the Bakırçay plain make the natural site of Darkale unique. These opportunities have been benefitted starting with the Pergamon Kingdom Period. In turn, a cultural landscape with a very strong sense of place is identified. Pastoral farming and animal husbandry traditional production techniques, recreation activities and religious ceremonies are intangible signs of this cultural landscape. The rural settlement, formed just like a castle, includes very tight organization of its housing units interwoven to each other in all three dimensions, with very limited courtyards, but with passages over the streets. These are peculiarities, but the utilization of Hayat house concept as a basic spatial organization principle in each housing unit necessitates the evaluation of this rural settlement in the same group with other rural settlements dated to Ottoman era. Although the authentic elements have been preserved at a maximum amount; conversion of life style basically stemming from mining becoming a major profession and migration to cities threat the integrity of Darkale in all three scales analyzed. This study has clarified that the absence of the concepts of rural settlement and cultural landscape in the national legal framework creates gap in the listing and conservation decisions of the related heritage. It has proposed tools for the definition and evaluation of the mentioned heritage.

Master Degree / Yüksek Lisans Tezleri

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