From Dysfunctional Industrial Zone to University Campus

Abstract

The aim of the study is to reveal the need to consider industrial structures as a form of cultural heritage which have become the symbols for industrialization and modern architecture in the world, within the context of the transfer of urban identity and urban memory to the future and to analyze the process where these structures are protected and adapted to contemporary life. The subject was studied based on a case that was re-functionalized from the industrial zone for education in university. Determining the factors to be taken into consideration when refunctioning the structures and determining the advantages and disadvantages of the refunctioning of industrial structures as a university structure, were identified as the other objectives of this research.