The Trace of Change: Traditional House

Abstract

The aim of this paper is to set light to relationship between the city and traditional house via the concept of ‘change’. In this direction, the main issue of this paper to discuss the reflections of change which lived bound to time in a traditional house area as a case. It is obvious that, the effects of change which is lived as a reality in many areas could not be thought apart from intellectual, cultural, social, economic and physical context. Cities in Turkey –especially in historical areas-, it is gave place to different construction and renovation activities; and also these activities limited via laws. It is same for the traditional house areas. Nowadays, house areas are exposed to physical aging one hand and they don’t answer the spatial requirements with changing life conditions on the other hand. When the limitation of house -which is the living area of users’- rehabilitation efforts take into account, it can be said that this kind of areas have one’s share of destruction of time. The trace of ‘change’ with this direction can be observed in structure of family, living style and some social matter; the results of change in houses can be occurred with the shape of functional and spatial forces. Consequently, the reflections of change in this study are examined in terms of design concepts on a selected sample area as a case in Turkey; in this sense various suggestions are presented.