Re-evaluation of deserted industrial buildings; intangible values of Samsun tekel tobacco factory

The old industrial buildings, which carry the traces of the society and city, has lost their functions with the changes at production methods and after a while has been abandoned. These abandoned spaces remain as "Terrain Vague"s at the city which trigger the uncanny senses. The different agents approaches to these ambiguous industrial ruins with different perspectives, considering different type of assesment criterias. The conservation laws care about the historical value representatively, unfortunately the discussions can not go beyond the physical concerns and remain incapable for bringing up the qualitative values into the open. Capital inevitably care about the use value and users care about the physical newless value. But, renewal of the old ruin or replace with a new one; annihilation of the uncanny senses with this way is the common ground that all agents agree with. The reason for why all these valuation systems prioritise the quantitative values and do not put enough attention on qualitative/invisible values, is the actual time perception. The time has been percieved as a lineer process; the present follows the past and the future will follow the present. Up to this understanding the old have a strong relationship with the past as the new has the same with the present time;.As a result of this perception, we tend to think that the things which belong to the present time are "modern" and has more value than other things. So that, modernization is obliged to transform an endless process, if modern refers the new in society. However, if we start to think that the past was a previous present and the present is a past which is passing currently, we can stop to see the time as a lineer process and a countable, quantitative phenomenon. The past and the present is not just a moment in order, the one is not follow the other. The one give birth the others, occur as a becoming. This kind of time perception requieres the redefination of the old and new. The old can be defined with the previous present in order to the dilapidated past, so it would be possible to see hided values in the oldness. Samsun Tekel Factory, which re-use and re-organize as a shopping mall, is an example of industrial ruins. Through this example, there will be dealing with the traces that the building left in the memories while it was using as a cigarette factory and also while it was percieving as an uncanny place by urbanites after the factory closed and remained as a "Terrain Vague." The invisible values those this kind of building have, which are uncauntable easily will be tried to criticize. These values usually are not be examined, can be emerged by the narration of the personal memories about the building. With this way, it would be possible to suggest an alternative value practices to the current one.