Geleneksel Sokak Dokusuna Sivil Mimarinin Katkısı: Antep Merkez İlçesi, Yaprak Mahallesi

Year 2012, Issue: 21, 115 - 142, 02.11.2012

Sevgi Parlak

Abstract

The Contribution of Civil Architecture to Traditional Street Structure: Antep Merkez District Yaprak Quarter

Abstract

The study of examples of civil architecture in Anatolian cities is not
only indispensable to define the way of life of Ottoman period people but
it is also an important subject matter to see their physical contribution to
the traditional street structure. Traditional streets, which serve as a bridge
between the public sphere and the private property, change with the replacement of traditional civil architecture with flats in apartment buildings.
Streets most affected from this change are dead-ends, where the
feeling of privacy is more apparent. And also in shady streets of Antep
and other Southeastern Anatolian cities where passages named kabaltı (abbara) and bay windowed houses are mainly seen. Traditional streets are
replaced with wider streets where modern vehicles can easily move. This
is a research of the streets of Antep Merkez District Yaprak Quarter which
face the danger of losing their authenticity and the contribution of civil
architecture to the structure of these streets.