RE-FUNCTIONING OF HISTORIC BUILDINGS: THE CASE OF SANTRALISTANBUL

Historical buildings should be evaluated for a different function than its original function, or it should be included in life with its original function. Within the scope of this study, the Santralistanbul project, which was designed with the transformation of Silahtarağa Power Plant, which sets an example for industrial structures that have been adaptive reused as a science, culture and art structure in Turkey, is examined. The Silahtarağa Power Plant, chosen as the sample area, has an important historical period in terms of being the first urban scale, coal-fired thermal power plant of the Ottoman Empire. Although its structural setup in the past was built on electricity generation, the idea of living urban spaces is maintained through the new functions given to historical buildings, taking into account the user-oriented arrangements and architectural approaches it offers. As a result of the literature review and field study, the data was obtained and the guiding qualities in the relationship between physical architecture and thematic formations were interpreted. The infrastructure that will provide a different perspective on architectural space readings, adaptive reusing and protection of historical buildings, determining intervention decisions and enabling the acquisition of necessary information for new sustainable designs has been constructed.