Spatial Analysis of the Concept of Reuse in Traditional Housing: Zeynep Onbaşı House

Existing cultural characteristics of a society mutate and develop with the run of what is supplied from outside. At the same time, cities improve and mutate as well based on standards as variable and dynamic facts involving social and cultural properties. From past to present, cultural identity and living conditions of the period have also undergone a direct change specific to a particular period with the change of socio-cultural and socio-economic characteristics in the historical development course. In this context, traditional houses, the most obvious items of cultural heritage, sometimes re-functioning processes can be involved and in order to prolong their life and protect their case as an evidence without decreased in the face of current needs. Transfer of historical and cultural heritage structures to the future; It is made possible by maintaining the continuity of the original functions or by providing new functions to such structures by providing them with reuse. The structures that maintain their original functions are adapted to the comfort conditions of the day and the structures that are given new functions include the structural arrangements required by the function; while ensuring the continuity of our historical buildings, it helps to pass them on to the next generations. In this study, physical and functional transformation of “the Zeynep Onbaşı House, a produce of the traditional 19th-century house culture and The Aegean Region, which is one of the most important immovable cultural heritage components” into a boutique hotel will be examined and related evaluations will be made. In this flow, the history of the house, its immediate surroundings throughout Kula, the usage of the parcel it belongs to and its architectural features will be conveyed; and reuse will be analyzed with necessary images and documents within the scope of its restoration. Targeted to all this; revealing the transformation of a traditional architectural heritage structure and guiding similar studies to be realized in the future.