Increasing Social Value of Historical Buidling by Using Temporary Use Method: The Case of St. George of the Greek Church in the Old City of Famagusta

This study investigated the possibility of increasing social value in historical places by giving a temporary use to a building in that area; by focusing in walled city of Famagusta as the historical area and St. George of the Greak Church as the historic building with temporary use. This study investigate how to increase engagement between the public and the surrounding community with giving temporary use to ST. George of the Greek Church; to know if using this church can be preserved by giving it a temporary use; to understand how to convince people that St George of the Greek Church can be reused; and to understand how temporary use applies to St. George of the Greek Church in way that it can increase awareness for values of the heritage, active interaction between people and historical places and benefit from complex social interaction between the community and the heritage. These were with view to inform the psyche of what social value that could be made out of the St. George Church of the Greek. The Data collection method used in the study was drawn from the relevant published sources and literature review. The analysis was presented on inventory sheets specially designed for this thesis. Furthermore, for more illustration that temporary use could increase the social value of historic buildings, a comparative analysis was adopted, drawing evidence of temporary use of historic buildings from four case studies by these four case study this study shows that temporary can be a good approach for increasing social value. Based on the qualitative data available for this study, the result revealed that if temporary use is applied to St. George of the Greeks Church, the strength of the building will be increased. This study concludes that if St. George of the Greek Church is holistically given temporary use, it will bring social benefits, economic benefits, environmental benefits, promoting innovation, and aesthetic benefit, which will then help to increase social value in walled city of Famagusta as a whole. Keywords: value, social value, temporary use, cultural heritage , st. George of the Greeks Church