An Evaluation of Interior Space Defining Elements of Re-functioned Historic Warehouses: Liman Road, Famagusta

ABSTRACT: There has been a great tendency in regarding the adaptive re-use of historic buildings in last half of the 20th century. Adaptive re-use is known as the main key in the field of conservation which has an impact on controlling: deterioration, change of use, legal restrain, conservation and sustainability. Walled-City Famagusta encloses a variety of historic warehouses from 19th century, which were built in the British period. The thesis aims to evaluate the interior space defining elements of re-functioned historic warehouses, considering elements defining space, arrangement of elements and design principles. These elements define visual aspect-spaces, features and finishes of interior space characteristics. Most of these buildings are re-used in order to transform to a new function such as, retail store, market and club. The conversion of these buildings has led to alter the main interior space characteristics, which decreases the space efficiency to minimum. The space organizations of original states and re-used state of warehouses are analyzed and assessed from the inventories in order to, compare and identify the reasons, which caused appropriate and/or inappropriate alteration of the interior space characteristics. Keywords: Conversion, Adaptive re-use, interior Space characteristic, Space organization, Historic Warehouse. …………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………