Geleneksel Konut Dokusunun Değişim Süreci ve Sürdürülebilirliği: Yaşam Dünyası Bağlamında Kastamonu-Kırkçeşme Caddesi’nin Analizi

Abstract

The fast pace of change which started with Industrial Revolution and continued with Globalization affected urban textures; emerging images of uniformity and concerns of getting disconnected with the past led humanity into search of sustainability. As studies conducted within this context over the years have been directed towards physical conservation of structures, neighbourhoods which failed to cope with changing life-styles have been facing the danger of extinction. This study aims to research and discuss how process of change in urban settlements can be managed, and their sustainability can be achieved. By means of the study conducted on daily life surroundings in Kastamonu, characteristics of places that survived until today and can survive further were addressed within the context of life and space unity. The methodology used is based on Husserl’s “life-world/ lebenswelt” concept. In the study, “life-worlds” which materialize via architectural elements, were experienced, within the context of street-garden-house interrelationships, and through two different approaches on the residential texture surrounding the Republic Square which possesses traces of city’s modernization period and is a reference area: The bird’s-eye view represents an external distant relationship and embodies texture patterns and integrated perception of the city, while the strolling person’s view represents an intimate relationship and embodies the continual perception. Changes caused by modernization in dwellings were researched on four streets through these two approaches within the context of a doctorate study; in this article, Kırkçeşme Street, one of those four, is presented. As a result of this study which could form the basis of a future design guideline, it was determined that each street portrayed textures different from the others due to the effects of lifeworlds embodied in their own historical contexts and that each street should be analyzed separately.