Rehabilitation proposal for Isparta historic urban center

In the course of time, cities have been under the different effects and have had socio-cultural, economic and physical changes independently from each other. Throughout this process, the historical towns which have been remained in today's zones of occupation have been keeping the documents that let us know about how the life was in the past having a historical value. The architecture of the buildings in the town, their residential mounting and construction techniques define the architectural identity of the resident the preservation of the historical buildings keeping their existence as a single construction and the historical town parts have been getting difficult more and more. Particularly the growth phases of today's towns have a wearing effect on this. Besides, there is a disconnection between major scaled plans and subscaled applications in planning processes. The thesis titled "Healthiness Proposal For Isparta's Historical Town Center" deals with healthiness on the preservation problems in the scale of way arising between the development plan made for conservation purpose of Isparta's urban site and the various restoration applications which were done. The studies in the single construction scale must be in urban mounting in order to discuss about the conservation in a totalitarian approach. The aim of thesis is to deal with the traditional house texture in the city center of Isparta in the frame of conservation and healthiness. Both the urban site and the neighborhood zone which has a feature of site have been suggested to be developed by taking into considerate together. The reasons that the historic structure storage in the historical city center of Isparta is under the close interaction and it is also a zone preserved as a site are in question while determining the study area. In Isparta, the Turks having different cultural characteristics till 1920, Greek, Armenian and Yörük had lived together with migrants from Kafkasya and Rumelia in 19 th century. After that, different cultural changes occurred in the other times because of wars and migrations. For that reason, it has been to see the historical constructions, all together, belonging to different periods. Historical quarters, commercial and administrative center are included in the study are area commercial, religious and public buildings as well as numerous houses have been taken place in nearly 17 hectare are in Isparta. Urban blocks, in which there are houses, convey the traces belonging to the architecture in the historic process of the city. However, in the new residential areas out of the historic texture, reinforced concrete and massive constructions have been built according to physical features, location, building rights in the place where they were constructed. The architectural approaches and materials of the period at the time when these constructions were built have been affected on the formation of their architectural style. Observations and measurements and necessary fixing for healthiness studies have been done to determine physical features of the study area in the frame of thesis. İn these fixings, the analysis such as the numbers of the buildings near Isparta and Isparta site, the function of occupancy, serviceable positions, structural position, historic valueness and conservation position have been put forward to and building definitions have been done. Solution suggestions made for conservation problems which were faced in the study area are included in both regulations in building scale and improvements of their socio- economic and physical positions. İn other words, to keep historic texture alive is really possible only when it is taken part in today functionally. After necessary restoration interventions, the study area will make cultural heritage transfer into the future, thought as reference marks of the planned cultural center. With the reconstruction suggestions of the architectural buildings which have been lost because of wrong application decisions and upper scale plans in the historical city texture rebuilding decisions have been taken according to its period features. Healthiness applications which will be done for the civil architectural examples occurring the important part of historic texture and initially schedule checks prevent these buildings from disappearing as well. To examine conservation problems determined by fixing obtained and to present suggestions and to make historic city texture alive by a different evaluation have been an important emphasis for thesis study.