Ankara Mahmut Paşa Bedesten on the Changing Face of The City


The cities are transformed with the flowing time. The transformation of cities is seen in many physical, social and cultural ways. These elements can be viewed individually, but also seen as intertwined formations that trigger each other. The dynamic structure of the users, which is the most important element of cities, supports this multi-faceted change. In this study, the transformation of The Ankara Mahmut Paşa bedesten, one of the bazaar structures in the core of the city, which hosts the economic and social and administrative elements of Ottoman cities, into an Anatolian Civilization Museum, which has a function of displaying and protecting artistic products in a metropolis that changes its cultural, social, economic and administrative form. Within the scope of the study, the contribution of the bedesten to the city was presented, then the city's texture and its contribution when building as built and the present time were conveyed. Through literature researches and on-the-spot observations, the time-varying spatial status and usage relations in the city were revealed in the context of the Mahmut Paşa Bedesten/ Museum of Anatolian Civilizations. As a result, it is understood The Anatolian Civilizations Museum enables it to work as a social glue that attracts visitors with this transformation. Bedesten became a place open to all while addressing only the commercial sector of the society, it has included the public open use with its open spaces designed around it, and has arranged the open area to provide space for changing public uses.


Keywords


Transformation of cities, adaptive re-use, usage, covered Turkish bazaar, museum.

Author : Sena IŞIKLAR BENGİ -Özlem SAĞIROĞLU
Number of pages: 1165-1183
DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.29228/TurkishStudies.40626
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Turkish Studies-Social Sciences
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