SELECTED PAPERS
FACTORY LOST AND FOUND
Moira Valeri Architecture Department Yeditepe University Istanbul / Turkey
Keywords factory, Turkey, recycle, lost and found, memory
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ABSTRACT The process of deindustrialization which began in the 1970s in many European countries, the U.S, and Japan has clearly had—and continues to have—a significant impact on cities, leaving a vast stock of industrial buildings obsolete, and no longer suited to the functional program they were built for. Although the aesthetic of such ruins has always fascinated architects—inspired by literature on memory and the passage of time— we need to keep in mind the impact that abandoned and underused buildings have on many aspects of the city and its public domain, on the one hand, and the opportunity to keep these spaces alive while also preserving the memory of their bygone days, on the other. In Turkey as well—albeit characterized by a different intensity of industrialization/ deindustrialization process—the
pragmatic value-driven approach of the factory has often been both the mirror of the efforts of transformation and modernization in the aftermath of the Industrial Revolution, and the prolific grounds for some interesting architectural experiments, starting from the period of the reforms and reorganization of the Ottoman Empire in the 1830s (Tanzimat era) with the establishment of some imperial factories, and extending all the way to the Post-Fordist era and globalization that is still underway. Within this framework, following an overview of disused industrial buildings, this paper aims to present the industrial landscape in Turkey based on a database and mapping for a comprehensive visualization, on the one hand, and a case study in which neither the demolition of the building nor its replica have been chosen as strategies, which is
