An adaptive reuse proposal for Nicosia city museum

Nowadays, it is important to ensure sustainability through adaptive reuse of historic buildings that worth preserving with its characteristics like symbolic, cultural, functional, spatial etc. in socio-cultural, socio-economic and socio-political aspects and also crucial in terms of social memory, urban, architectural and cultural heritage. In this thesis, historical buildings which lost its first function and functionalized as a museum were examined on behalf of to uncover the intervention approaches. An adaptive reuse proposal has been developed under the name "Nicosia City Museum" of the historic building which is located on Şh. Salahi Şevket Street, Arabahmet Neighbourhood, Nicosia, Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.