For some time now, Antalya Culture and Arts Center's Forum Antalya hall, which hosts exhibitions focusing on Antalya, is hosting student works from Antalya Science University's Department of Architecture that offer new approaches and solutions to the city's current and critical issues. During the exhibition, which can be viewed until August 29, 2021, a series of talks titled "Antalya in the Workshop" will feature faculty members from the university's Department of Architecture engaging with participants through parallel discussions. The second talk in the "Antalya in the Workshop" series will be held on Friday, August 4, 2021, at 7:00 PM, featuring Assoc. Prof. Dr. Ayşe Esin Kuleli with her talk titled "Akseki Studies."
The first step in preserving and sustaining cultural heritage is researching and inventorying the values that constitute this heritage. Strategies developed after these findings and observations form the most important components of the preservation process. Comprehensive and sustainable conservation is possible only through the education of decision-makers, owners of structures with tangible cultural heritage value, and architects and related professionals who will carry out conservation work, and by improving the quality of conservation efforts. In this context, academic studies and research on the documentation and preservation of local architectural works are of great importance in identifying rural architecture, which does not receive as much attention as monumental structures, and in developing conservation proposals.
The villages of Akseki, Belenalan, and Güzelsu, where the "buttoned" construction system is used, were selected as study areas for students in the "Recording and Analysis of Historical Buildings" and subsequent "Conservation and Restoration Project" courses conducted at the Department of Architecture, Faculty of Fine Arts and Architecture, Antalya Science University, to experience the processes of documenting, researching, and preserving cultural heritage sites. This presentation will discuss the field and studio studies conducted with students in Akseki, Belenalan, and Güzelsu villages within the scope of these courses, and the documentation, research, and conservation proposals produced for the buttoned houses.
