FACADISM

Abstract

Facadism, aimed at establishing the balance between urban development and conservation, has been applied in the recent past and is still being applied today. However, the conservators generally disprove of the facadism applications that allow current applications behind the facade which damage the integrity of the historical building by emptying the interior spaces of such historical buildings and state that such applications cannot be accepted as a conservation application. Although the initial applications of facadism were performed only on the exterior shell of the historical building, today they have become more generalized application which change template of the historical building in order to provide more space. In this dissertation, first, facadism as a general conservation policy is assessed by referring to representative examples around the world; and second, selected applications from Turkey are evaluated. During the new application examples are observed, it could be said that the discussions on such applications will be continued. Facadism examples are also observed in Turkey and quite negative opinions for application results have emerged. The conceptual background of the related doctoral study is summarized and contextual topics are evaluated.