RE-ARCHITECTURE OF EXISTING BUILDING STOCK WITH SUSTAINABLE APPROACH: THE ANALYSIS OF THE CITY OF IZMIR

Sustainability can be defined as providing the best life conditions for living creatures in modern city environments for maintaining continuity in the natural environment by protecting the historical and the cultural elements. It is important to design the structures under the scope of `sustainability' which can have positive contributions to the environment and redounded to the city with the help of some definitions like re-functioning, re-use, decontamination and others within the enhancement of existing building stock. Re-consideration and re-evaluation of the existing buildings are important as constructing new buildings within the scope of this comprehension. In this research, the distribution of the existing building stock in the city of Izmir that should be reconsidered and enhanced in terms of `socio-spatial improvements'; functions of these existing building stocks and their potential for re-functioning were detected. Local governments applications on this issue were examined on their sites, the news related to the urban transformation and recruitment that took place in the media was analysed. Also, by putting emphasis on the important examples on sustainability and ecological approaches in the world, criteria were set which were needed to be considered while retrieving the existing building stock both in Izmir and our country.