First Appartment Buildings in European Side of Bosphorus and Their Conservation Values

Abstract

Apartments thought to be one of the architectural heritages of the 20th century; it was built intensely in our country after World War II. The aim of the article is to establish the specific values that need to protect the apartments built on the European Coast of the Bosphorus and to create data for the conservation work to be carried out by experts on these buildings. After the World War II, in the floor apartments shaped by the social, socio-cultural, economic, architectural and technological developments in our country; old, design, style, traditional structure-material, standardization, personal memory, residential stock, functionality, environmentalism, group-plural-homogeneity and urban identity are required to be preserved as cultural assets. The architectural, urban, socio-cultural and economic gains that our country will provide through the special values of the apartment buildings are explained.

Keywords

• 20th century architectural heritage
• bosphorus; floor apartments; conservation values; modern architectural heritage.