Post-use assessment of urban transformation areas: Bingöl İnönü neighborhood sample

Urban transformation process in smaller and developing cities such as Bingöl often remains off agenda while urban transformation in Turkey is being examined. Urban transformation in Turkey is becoming more prevalent, as in all the other cities. Urban transformation in Bingöl is implemented in areas that contains old structure not suited for a comfortable living standart, and have structural, infastructure, and superstructure problems. The aim of this thesis is to reveal city's change after the earthquakes that occured in 1971 and 2003 in Bingöl and change in physical environment, also evaluating level of performance of residences that are in İnönü neighbourhood urban transformation site according to some criterion and determining resident's satisfaction. Housings were built in İnönü neighbourhood in Bingöl, after the earthquake that occured in 1971 to provide accomodation for earthquake victims. However, these structures worn and worn over time due to long-term use and after the 2003 earthquake. At the same time, with deficiency of public sphere, residents' satisfaction started to decrease in worn İnönü neighbourhood. Thus TOKI and Municipality of Bingöl constructed a new residential area in cooperation. Changes after transformationand level of resident satisfaction on transferred site which was very low before are issues of concern. Sites which were damaged because of earthquake are being transformed with this method in Bingöl. This thesis have importance on issues like determining how efficiently transformation project will proceed and increasing design quality of housings. In this thesis, resident's usage of mentioned housing has been evaluated to draw conclusions on functional, technical and behavioural performances of housings in transformation areas. In the study, a series of literature surveys, literature and archival research were conducted. Studies on similar subjects have been analyzed to collect data. In the study, the area of transformation was investigated by the method of post-use evaluation. In process of KSD (post-use evaluation) participants were transferred to design and usage by taking their opinions. The aim of KSD is to create accessible source of information by determining the needs of residents. In the result of research users relation with the building is evaluated. In the results of this evaluation, information about functional, technical, behavioral performances of housings in transformation area is obtained. This source of information is aimed to be a foundation to construct more efficient housings in the future. Level of performances of mentioned housings which is determined in this study could be an efficient data for future projects. The aim is to set a standart for future projects with the help of data obtained from this study. Keywords: Urban Transformation, Post-Use Evaluation (KSD), Bingöl, User Satisfaction